As the salesperson asked me after I said “I’ll take it”, what is your favorite flavor of koolaid. From my perspective, I’ve now gone over to the dark side. Mac. My computer was getting a bit aged and I’ve wanted to replace her. The scary part of it was that I kept being lured to the iMac sitting there off to the side in CompUSA. What the heck? I’m a hardcore PC girl. Heck, I’m a microsoft developer for crying-out-loud. How could I possibly even consider the iMac.
Well, enter the new Parallels software, the Intel chips and I can have best of both worlds. I sit here typing this entry on my new iMac 17″ 2.0ghz dual core with 1Gig of ram and a honking big hard drive. I did pick up the Parallels but have not had a chance to install it. It has been a tortuous day!
My folks are out of town in Arizona to attend a memorial service for my father’s step-brother’s wife who past last week. They were supposed to be back tonight but that lovely weather around the country has them staying there another day. They’ll be home late tomorrow. The kids had school and I blessedly had the holiday off. I toyed with the new computer thing for a while and then just headed to the Apple store at the mall to play. Before I knew it, I said yes and wrote a pretty good sized check.
I got home, all ready to play, get files off the old machine, check out the iMac and see what the heck it could do. Not so fast. I headed up to my room to find the builders working in my room. Argh! There was another guy in the hallway and a third in the kids’ room sanding the spackle the used to fix the area around the new windows. I did the only thing I could do. Put the box in mom’s room and head back to the kitchen to await my bedroom freeing up. Sadly, it did not until 5pm, which is incidentally when I had to go pick the kids up at school!!! GRRRRR. I wasn’t able to get to the new toy until the kids went to sleep a few hours ago.
For the second shocker of the day, probably as close to a shock as my buying a Mac (“macs blow” a friend reminded me when I IM’ed him), was that I didn’t watch 24 tonight as I was too hooked into getting the new girl set up.
Yes, you read that right. No 24 for me. I did watch it last night. Was glued to it as a matter of fact. Managed to finish off the back of Ribby and start the right front as I sat obsessively knitting and watching. Thank goodness for the DVR as I confirmed it recording. I’ll watch it tomorrow. Or not. Depends on how much my geek blood is roiling for the new toy. 
I’m ever so ecstatic that I’ve found couple of nifty cool applications already, have been able to vpn into the office and even remote connect to my work desktop, which is windows xp. Amazing. Whodathunkit?
I got a lot of knitting done yesterday. Finished the body of Celtic Dreams finally, reducing for the hem and binding off. I also did the collar before picking up for the first sleeve. It was somewhere around then that my fingers got a little sore and I moved on to other projects.
(oooh, love the built in camera on the iMac.. will be seeing some interesting pictures from there!)
I moved back to the Sea Silk version of Swallowtail and completed another couple of repeats. I’m getting close to the nupp-less Lily of the Valley portion. Another 4 repeats or so and I’ll be there.
Alas, I didn’t get much knitting done today. Between the shopping online and at the mall, and the jumping up to see if my bedroom was free, I was just too antsy to knit. When i did take out CD, Earl took a nap on it when I got up to answer the phone. Just wasn’t the day for it.
Its late, I’m on my own tomorrow getting the kids out to school before catching the all-to-early train in and I have to clean up the disorder I caused by evicting lots of things in my breathless rush to get the iMac out of its nifty box.
Craft on!
12 responses so far ↓
1 Dorre // Jan 15, 2007 at 10:50 pm
A mac?? now I am jealous. CD looks beautiful though I do feel for your poor hands cuz thats gotta hurt. Enjoy the new toy. =)
2 janna // Jan 15, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Welcome to the dark side! They make me use Windows at work, but at home, I’ve got an iBook. In fact, in 14 years of spending my own money on computers, I’ve only bought Macs!
3 Chris // Jan 16, 2007 at 8:27 am
One of my kids and my sister both have Mac and lovelovelove the things. I decided it’s time I have a notebook and DS tried to talk me into a mac. But my geekness is so non-existant. I suspect the learning curve would be on the monstrous torture side for me. I ordered a Dell Inspiron, configured by the Mr. You get giggly with glee with your new toy. Me? I’m guivering with fear. Have fun!!
4 Paige // Jan 16, 2007 at 8:42 am
Welcome to Mac land–my computer of choice since 1984. Yikes, I’m dating myself. But you have to admit, it’s the best looking thing out there, and the features are phenom. Love the built-in camera. Love iLife. Love that the entire thing takes up NO room at all. Best of all, love the clever commercials with PC guy and Mac guy.
5 Nancy // Jan 16, 2007 at 10:26 am
I’m losing ground in my house as the lone PCer. My husband has been a Mac fan since he started working at our computer store which is all Macs. He just bought himself a macbook so he gave his old powerbook to Avery who also uses Mac in school. Now Avery is all about the Mac. I see myself slipping fast…
6 pixie // Jan 16, 2007 at 10:36 am
I really never use parrallels, there are some other options, I ran a cool beta of “CrossOver” do a search for it, it’s really great and isnt an emulator.
I adore my macs, give it time. By the end of the year I bet it will have grown on you so much you couldn’t imagine life without it
hehe
7 Shanti // Jan 16, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Welcome to the fun side of computing! Like Paige, I was an early Apple user; in fact, I remember having an Apple II. I use PCs at work, but for truly personal computing it’s hard to beat a Mac.
8 Jennifer // Jan 16, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Oh Happy Day! Macs rule. We just bought our (wait, I’m counting…) sixth Mac over the holidays. Ostensibly it is the second computer for my home-based business (for scanning and overflow) but really it is for the kids. Both my 8-year-old and my 14-year-old have blogs. They figured it all out on their own. iLife, and iWeb made it super-easy for us to create a vacation website. 1.75 hours and 9 pages were polished and done. .Mac allows us to sync all the calendars on all four active computers. You simply cannot beat a Mac for easy set up–and when things go wrong. We keep an old PC laptop around to test things on but all of the day to day stuff happens on a Mac. Welcome aboard!
9 Nancy // Jan 16, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Congrats on the new toy. Enjoy. Congrats on the amazing knitting progress too. Your needles fly.
Love the expression on Sara’s face! May just be a trick of photography, but boy she looks like she knows what happened. She does indeed resemble lion though.
What a great photo of you and the kids!
10 lynne s of Oz // Jan 16, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Ooooh, new TOY! I run a mac
But then I am contrary and run linux on my mac (macos is based on unix now).
DH swapped back to the real Dark Side and is running pc architecture but linux. He blew up his motherboard on a hot day – that hasn’t happened with any of the macs we and family have….
11 --Deb // Jan 16, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Boy, it was a big day for you! C.D. looks great.
12 Deborah // Jan 17, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Pleeeeese take a rusty old tech gal shopping for a new pc??!! I sooo want a mac but was so conflicted. You have convinced me this would be good and a fun thing to do. Feb. is my 48th! That’s my present to meself.