Toys: the update.
In furtherance of my mission to acquire every shiny white piece of computer hardware ever, I bought an iMac a month or so ago, and I love it. I made the decision to upgrade when I realised that I was using my 12” PowerBook for everything, despite having a powerful PC sitting on my desk. I’d have waited to do the upgrade, but my full-time student status expired at the end of August, and I wanted to take advantage of Apple’s educational discounting.
So here’s Athena, my lovely shiny iMac, sitting on my desk. It’s been a long time since I’ve been so happy with a computer purchase; she’s a pleasure to use.
Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of my iPod. It ceased functioning a couple of months ago, and I shipped it off to Apple for a replacement. (Thank heaven for warranties.) I got the replacement back very promptly – I must say, I am impressed with Apple’s replacement process – and filled it up with MP3s. Several days later, my music hard drive crashed in a fatal way (bye-bye 90 GB of music!) and several days after that, my iPod stopped working again. So it’s time to send it off for replacement again. I’m thinking seriously about an iPod Nano at this stage; 4GB of music is plenty for a portable player, and I’m thinking solid-state storage might be a wee bit more reliable.