I’m typing this entry on my new MacBook Pro, which I purchased recently having decided that a laptop would be a more efficient way of working since it was time (yet again) to upgrade. This is now the sixth Mac I’ve owned, but more interestingly — and coincidentally — is that each time I’ve purchased a new Mac it’s been at a time of (often major) change in my life:

• a IIci (8 MB RAM, 80 MB HD. That’s 80 megabytes, folks) when I was just starting out;
• a PowerMac 9600 when I was freelancing but found full-time work;
• a PowerComputing Pro (raise your hand if you still have one) when I left my job to work on my own;
• a G4 when I bought my house and business was buzzing;
• a G5 at a time when there was a lot of personal and professional uncertainty and tension;
• and now my MacBook Pro, purchased just a few weeks ago.

So where’s the change this time? Read the rest of this entry »