New Toyness

Posted by stephen on Friday, 19th May, 2006 @ 16:01

After this week's exciting new announcement from Apple I immediately flung my 12" PowerBook on to eBay like an unwanted child. Turns out my friend Dave thought it might make a nice new toy. So, the PowerBook was pulled from eBay with the promise of a loving new home, rejoining my old PowerMac G5 that Dave and Neil had also kindly adopted.

I always like to know my Macs are going to nice homes, where they will be loved and cared for. My original 12" PowerBook, Orb, went to Richard who most certainly loved it, and questionably cared for it (the poor little thing is looking a bit the worse for wear these days). Macs should be appreciated, so I know Thor, my newer 12" PB will be in good hands with Dave.

Then Dave dropped the bombshell on me that if possible, he'd like to pick up the laptop before the weekend so he can do some work while he's away up North. The quandary! To be without what had become my mostly unused PowerBook for the week or two it'd take to have Apple deliver me a shiny MacBook. It just didn't seem right. But after consultation from two independent parties, I reluctantly accepted, Dave picked up Thor yesterday and I placed my order on the Apple website.

Apple are currently offering 6 months interest free finance, where you pay the total amount over the 6 month period. Seemed like a good deal, so I went for that. After a 20 minute conversation that seemed to require more personal information than my mortgage application, I was accepted and had to await the paperwork. So, probably Monday before I get that, need to sign it, and send it back. Then they'll give Apple the OK to send me the MacBook. Which will take 3 - 5 days, plus shipping, which might be forever if it is dispatched from the Far East like my previous two PowerBooks.

So I resigned myself to life without portable Appleness. Then it turned out that I couldn't go and do the job we had planned in London today, because high winds, tall buildings and ladders don't really mix. And so a moment struck me in the shower (where all my good ideas arise), that Brent Cross might have some in stock. so I rang them, and sure enough they did, would I like to put my name on one? Yes please!

And so I give you Falcor (fast, white and mobile, seemed appropriate)...