The Macbook Pro That Google Bought

So I've not posted in a few days, there's a really, really good reason for that. On Thursday of last week it was Christmas at my house because when I got home a box from Apple had arrived. I've been hem-hawing around (yes that's a word) for some time about going over to the dark side and switching to a Mac, something I swore a few years ago I'd never do. Turns out, I had to spend a good bit of time pulling my foot out of my mouth because no less than a dozen people have reminded me that I said that at some point.

Anyway, it was tax free weekend so I broke down and purchased a new Macbook Pro. I spared no expense and got everything but the 4GB Ram upgrade, I can get that cheaper elsewhere. So I've spent the better part of the past few days, getting used to the environment (this thing actually makes me feel like a moron sometimes). After a few days, I can honestly say, I'll be hardpressed to look at another PC if someone isn't paying me to do so. This thing is really sweet and worked right out of the box. No installing components, hunting drivers or any of that stuff, it all just worked. As it should.

Unlike the Toyota Tundra that Google is still making payments on, this puppy is paid for, in truth from a combined savings of Google Adsense money and IntelliTXT over two months time. Sometimes the frustration of dealing with the nonsense that has become Adsense still pays off and this was one of them. So, your are forewarned, there will probably be more than a few more Apple posts (as if there wasn't enough already).

Plus a know of a certain cow that's just dying to get his hooves on one of these, so I feel it my duty to point out just how cool this thing really is, although I'm not sure cow hooves will work too well with the keyboard. I'm sure though, with the onslaught of folks hanging around his pasture, one should be making it way to the barn pretty soon. If not, maybe if he actually used IntelliTXT it would, I'm just saying.

It is a nice machine and so far I'm really enjoying it. Next on the list is probably going to be an iMac for the wife since she's finding all kinds of cool things this will do that her PC won't! Go figure. Here's a few pics taken with the Olympus E-500 Google bought last year.