MacBook Pro

I know my wife loves me very much because she notices every lit­tle thing about me. Things that I some­times keep to myself. Like eye­ing and secretly yearn­ing for a new com­puter to replace my Power­book G4 12″.

Tak­ing the trou­ble of craft­ing care­fully placed ques­tions like in a nor­mal con­ver­sa­tion, about Apple com­put­ers and how great they are, and about how ‘wow, the periph­er­als are some­thing else too, just check out the new Air­port Extreme base sta­tion with it’s ‘n’ speed, blaz­ingly fast wi-fi, maaaan’, she put together my wish list of things and tal­lied them against her budget.

And then, she went out and bought me the com­puter I’m writ­ing this blog on now:

Say hello to Ziggy (as I have always named my com­put­ers and hard dri­ves), who’s a Mac­Book Pro 15″. It’s fan­tas­tic not just because it’s a Mac, and it’s fan­tas­tic not just because the key­board lights up when the room gets dark. In fact, I’ve been delib­er­ately work­ing in the dark so the key­board back­light gets lit auto­mat­i­cally, just so I can mar­vel about it aloud to my wife.

I had mar­velled about this to my techie brother too, but he sim­ply said, “So? The fridge light also comes on when you open the door. Big deal”.

Yes, as I was say­ing, its fan­tas­tic not just because of all the fea­tures, but because my wife took so much trou­ble to sur­prise me, and to get me some­thing I’d love and use. She even hid the stuff in places in the house, and made excuses for me to go to these places in the house and ‘dis­cover’ thinly dis­guised pack­ages — she needn’t have both­ered with the dis­guises because I’m so thick I’d still won­der what a car­ton with the label ‘MBP 15″” contained.

We then went out and bought acces­sories from iShop, such as a key­board pro­tec­tor and pro­tec­tive film for the sur­face of the note­book, because I’m such a messy per­son and take my meals while I work. If you were to turn my old Power­book upside down and shake it, crumbs from a dozen types of pas­try would fall out. So, you know, we don’t want that to hap­pen again.

I have to plug iShop, because they’ve such atten­tive staff who let you play with every­thing on dis­play, and give you really good rec­om­men­da­tions about what to buy and what you don’t really need. Oh, and the fact that there’s a cafe that serves pretty decent cof­fee is a major rea­son for hang­ing out there.

Although it’s pretty easy to sur­prise me (because I’m so damn blur), you can’t imag­ine how touched I am that my dar­ling wife took the trou­ble to run around town to get me my favourite work-toy.

I feel so loved.

Macs (and other Apple com­put­ers) I’ve owned:

Apple IIe
Mac­in­tosh Clas­sic II
Mac­in­tosh Quadra 660AV
Power­book Duo 210
Mac­in­tosh Power­book G4 12″

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