ctshryock

quoting a friend re: my first alpha:

"nice! that's actually pretty sweet. ok, i mean it does suck, but for a first app, i'm super >impressed"

i had a dream last night and although i don't remember much i do remember seeing a small laptop that turned out to be a 12" PowerBook. i didn't think much about it until i started listening to macbreak weekly, #73, in which someone stated that they dislike the mac book air and would rather have mac book pro 12" (which does not exist, meaning he'd rather them bring that model back).

all i can say is my 15" powerbook is, at 2 years old, is still damn amazing, and having been around 12" and 17" powerbooks (or mbp 17") the 15" is, for me at least, the perfect size.

the mba is definitely set for a different type of person than myself. my machine is used for development, so power is important to me (even though i'm still on a ppc, just saying if i was looking for a replacement) and the other uses are for my primary home machine used by myself and my wife, and as both families "IT guy" a super-drive has become very useful. often a family member is having a problem burning something to a disk and the end solution always seems to be to let me do it on my mac because it will be easier.

if i had another machine at home, say a mini, remote disc would probably work for me as far as taking care of my disc-burning needs etc. unfortunately my wife just wants things to work, and so far with the powerbook everything has just worked. my wife never used a mac until she bought me one (best christmas ever) and within a week of using it she stopped asking how to do things, everything was intuitive. i'm not sure asking her to coordinate two machines to burn a disc etc. would fly with her.

i had a point when i started writing this but it's too early in the morning for me to really write intelligently i guess

if you've ever spent more than a day in central missouri, you may have experienced how horrible our local television commercials are. i'm sure many cities claim to have horrible local commercials... we might not have the worst but i'd bet we're top 10 in the nation.

last night wife and i are sifting through tv channels because some poor writers in hollywood are getting the shaft by their greedy employers so bad that they have to strike and take from me the one show i enjoy that's not on the discovery channel, history channel or cartoon network (i'm looking at you abc... give me back grey's anatomy) and we stumble on a local channel, playing extended, local commercial's and or messages...

wife wasn't terribly amused with this, in fact she questioned my sanity for finding it so funny, but for quite some time the screen was blessed with microsofts stamp of approval.

the sad thing is i couldn't tell if this was a case of someone asleep at the wheel, or someone who just came to a sad realization of the status quo with windows tech.