Since I no longer had to wait and save up for my purchase, B and I went out and bought my new iMac last Friday. I decided to go with the 24" model, because it's huge. I love it. So much. It's teh awesome. And though I've had plenty of Macs in the past, this is the first time I've gotten one with an iSight camera, so that's a new plus.
I want to figure out if I can use it to talk live to people (like my DSD), but I haven't yet. I did play around with it a bit last night, but I didn't have anything to say (plus I hate listening to recordings of myself talking), so I just watched myself making faces for a minute (I was fascinated by how barbie-like my teeth looked while using the "glow" effect), and then uploaded that. It's like staring at myself in the bathroom mirror, only the whole world gets to see! Well, the "whole world" of people who bother to watch it, anyway.
On a completely unrelated side note, if you're a NIN fan and you haven't downloaded Ghosts yet, I recommend you do it. The first 9 tracks are free, and that's what I've downloaded so far. I plan on shelling out the $5 for the remaining 27 tracks (it's $5; how could I not?), but the download speed is rrreeeally slow right now, so I'm going to wait a bit. The first 9 tracks took over an hour.
Brett heard one of the tracks and said "no wonder it was free," but he's a jerk. It's all instrumental, so if you like the screamy kind of NIN, you're SOL. But if, like me, you prefer the less angsty bits of NIN, you'll like it. My favorite album is and may always be Still, but this one may become a close second. I really, really like it. It's very like, gentle sort of. Not gentle. But like, not so full of anger and despair that it makes me hate the world.
And if "it didn't make me hate the world." isn't a positive review, I don't know what is.
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*said with seething jealousy*
Congratulations!
We were at the UW bookstore last week, and we ogled at the iMacs for a bit... but for now we'll just have to hang tight, though I am concocting a plan to get myself an iPod touch... mwah ha ha...
Did you see the white whine where the guy was all like, "the reception on my iPhone is so bad that it might as well be an iPod touch?" buahaha.
I haven't looked at them much because I'm in the market for neither a new iPod nor an iPhone, but from what I understand, the biggest difference is that one can make phone calls and the other can't, si? And one sends your AT&T bill into the triple digits (if it wasn't there already), and the other doesn't affect your phone bill at all. Is that about right?
Brett really likes his iPhone. Because I have what The Simpsons refers to as "Stubby Fingers Syndrome," I sometimes have trouble typing on it, but other than that I like it too.
One night a few weeks ago I spent almost an hour surfing youtube on it, watching video after video of cats shitting in toilets. Best $400 we ever spent.
Wow! What a nice daddy! I know nothing about macs except that I could never afford one and all my friends who have them have sent for repairs or replacements at some point of owning them...(except maybe you?) and I have yet to deal with that on my pc and only once on my dell lappy toppy but that's because someone tripped the cord at church and sent it flying...and of course the church paid to fix it.
Someone is going to see that video of you and decide that you need to be a model. Watch out!
Psh. If you keep ANY computer long enough something will inevitably need to be replaced. In my long, arduous life, I've had...let me think...one "Apple," six Macs, and one PC. From 1984-2008, that's an average of about one every three years, which isn't that bad.
But a couple of the middle Macs overlapped (at one point when I was in high school, we had two in the den and one in the office), and all but one of the Macs still worked when it was replaced, they were just replaced with newer, faster, roomier models.
I will admit I HAVE had bad parts on my Macs before. But I also had a couple on my PC. And Brett's had two PC laptops since we've been together, and both of them have had multiple problems. And if you have an Apple Care plan, most of the potential problems you might have with your Mac are covered for the first three years.
Unfortunately for Megan & Aaron, the Apple Care plan does not cover dropping your MacBook onto pavement. LAME!!! :(
Or my friend's famous episode of running over her mac-top with her car!!!
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