the time has come

So today was a good day. A confusing day, but a good day.

I have a feeling that within six months there will be something better than the Macbook Pro that Ol' Rimmy introduced in his sermon yesterday. To buy this machine right now is to offer yourself up as a guinea pig, to invite frustration, bugs, and eventually regret and envy.

Cons:
-most software will not (yet) run natively on the Intel processors, resulting in decreased performance
-they have been supiciously mum on battery life
-the cool magnetic power cord that yanks out when somebody trips on it, instead of pulling your computer onto the floor, is untested (at least by real people) and unpatented
-it's expensive as hell
-they put in an inferior DVD burner
-no modem
-probably still has bad wireless reception
-first pass at an Intel laptop; they probably rushed to get this thing onto the streets and have bigger and better plans for something else shortly down the line, the MacBook Pro Nothistimewereallymeanit or something

Pros:
-I want it

Decision:
I will be ordering one tomorrow

Go ahead and try to talk me out of it.

Thanks for the fine answers in the Mac Challenge. cW has knotted things up with Deion. Good job by cW predicting an FM tuner for the iPod. Does it only work with the new video iPods? If so, that's lame. Fuggin' Apple.

Now it's time to go old skool. For fifteen genius points, tell me what google image search produced this image within the first three pages of results?

I miss the NHL strike.