Buy a MacBook Pro

To prepare myself for the next phase I needed to pick up a laptop for relief work and my own business. Decisions, decisions, decided: MacBook Pro 15.4". I can't truly recommend this yet because it hasn't arrived. I wanted to post this anyway, though, because Amazon.com has it for 5% off and a $150 rebate. Free shipping with Super Saver. All things considered it comes out to a 12.5% discount, the best price I've seen (and I've been watching these for quite some time).

Some highlights:

• They've upgraded the processor to the Intel Santa Rosa platform (Intel Core Duo running at 2.2 GHz)
  
• 2GB RAM
• LED backlit screen
• Backlit keyboard
• 120GB hard drive. A little small in this day and age, but I'd rather spend cheap money on an external and use it with Time Machine then pay the exhorbitant price they want for a few measly GBs.
• You know I'll be Boot Camping to XP. That's what you get when you're do .NET development. Developers, developers, developers.

What can I say? I long for my LCIII experiences of yesteryear.



Enjoy!

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It's that song on the iPod Nano commercial. For about 3 seconds I thought it might be Cat Power. It wasn't, but that's OK. The song is still awesome.

I'm also using this post as a way to mention Amazon.com's MP3 download service. I've enjoyed it so far. All the songs are DRM-free MP3s, so they'll play anywhere. They also come in cheaper than iTunes. How can you beat that? Enjoy!