Stefan Kleineikenscheidt on Integration Architecture and Engineering

Is it time for a MacBook Pro?

Filed under: Personal

My old Dell-Laptop has just turned three, and its time for a new laptop. Many people in the community are happily using Apple laptops, so I thought about buying one, too. It just looks cooler, the underlying OS is Unix, and it even ships with Intel chips. On the other side it has only one mouse button, it still seems to get hot like the G4 Powerbooks did and it seems quite expensive still.
In the end my Swabian* heritage succeeded and I decided its not time yet: Instead I’m going to order a Dell D620, which costs € 700 less than the comparable MacBook. Sorry Steve, maybe next time…

*) For non-German readers: Swabia is located in the south-west of Germany. Its inhabitants are considered to be a stingy, which may be true sometimes. (They are building great cars, however.)

Apr 2, 2006 at 22:42 | Permalink