divine angst

With all the Apple-Intel noise, including the expected predictions of doom for Apple’s sales, I am feeling a slight twinge of buyer’s remorse over my Powerbook purchase.

A corner of my brain says, Hey! You could have just sprung for a proc upgrade and new battery for the Pismo and waited till the new Powerbooks come out next year! And there’s logic in that.

(I say PBs next year because I am certain one of the biggest reasons Apple did this move was to get actual mobile procs that run cool AND fast, since the G5 Powerbook was quickly looking more and more mythical.)

Sigh. And of course the voice inside is being silly—I have been craving a new machine for ages and my five-and-a-half-year-old Pismo is NOT getting any faster. But leave it to Apple to announce that there will be a great upgrade to the machine I was looking at—only not for another year.

So, a little twinge of buyer’s remorse. As soon as that box arrives, though, I think the twinge will evaporate. I have never had a new computer. My Pismo was purchased on eBay. Every work computer I’ve had was passed on from someone else. I’ve always had to contend with the little twitches and bumps signifying that someone else’s hands touched my machine first. But not this time. This time, the machine is MINE. ALL mine.