April 2010

I ordered a new 17" Macbook Pro i7 last Friday, and because it's a custom build (Upgrades? You bet!) it's shipping from Shanghai.

Of course I'm tracking the entire journey online... Exit papers were just signed in China and it should be here within the next week, however the remote arrived today! It shipped separately, from a warehouse in the slightly less exotic locale of Concord, ON.

Anyway, I've ordered the new i7 model, with extra RAM, extra processor speed and a bigger hard drive and I couldn't be more excited if you told me I was getting a pony for my birthday.

Expect a full review shortly!

While the interwebs are all atwitter lately over the release of the new iPad, I've been drooling over the prospect of a new MacBook Pro, and waiting, ever so patiently, for the launch of Adobe's new Creative Suite5. Bearing this in mind,  I'd like to take a moment now to give the lowly 13" MacBook a well-deserved plug...

Never let anyone tell you this little machine isn't good enough for 'serious computing'. Over the past year, I've run my entire business on it, hooked up to a 17" screen.

I maxed out the RAM a while back, to give it some extra oomph, and since then, it's had no problem running the entire Creative Suite (and MS Office). Even with numerous applications open simultaneously it still manages to chug out 100mg+ photoshop files, with nary a complaint.

Not bad for a computer that I bought on a whim, so I could have the luxury of checking my email from bed.