Hey hey hey! Here’s another installment of “Ryan is itching to buy something”.
I feel the need to buy things every once in awhile. It is a curse I tell you.
Anyhow, this is the story about how I’m slowly getting hooked on Mac Computers.
I haven’t had much experience with Apple products. It was always “Don’t buy those overpriced pieces of hardware!” and I didn’t.
Then came the iPod. Huh…a neat toy that will be obsolete in 5 years. ;-P
But then I started to hear more and more about what Mac computers can do. For example…being from the musician’s walk of life, I have heard about GarageBand, an easy to use song creation tool that comes with the Mac. Even Nine Inch Nails released a few of their songs in GarageBand format so you can remix the songs with their own individual tracks! That is wild. Alas, I could not play around with it due to no Mac in my possession. But not a real big deal, right?
In the past year, my needs for a computer have changed…I am beginning to burn more and more DVDs and I wish to make them more and more slick looking. Nice menus, good chapter transitions…I am even thinking of turning it into a business one day. Coupled with the ‘I can transfer your old videocassettes onto a DVD”, I could make a few extra bucks.
So I’ve tried to do the ‘create your own DVD’ thing…it’s worked somewhat. A lot of different software to use to get what I want, but never reallly what I want.
Then I read up on the Mac computers and how they are the be-all end-all of video editing and whatnot. I’ve always known this – you always see musicians or film producers with a Mac. Heck, did you know that Napolean Dynamite was edited using Macs? That’s wild.
I mentioned getting a Mac to Benoit when he was thinking of getting a new computer and he dismissed the idea almost immediately but after a few weeks, he had purchased one on a whim and is loving it.
Last night Vero let me play around with her PowerBook (aka Mac Laptop) from work and I was really impressed with it. It’s slick. It’s smooth. And it has some very cool software. Garageband was really fun to play around with and I didn’t even have to read a manual (like Cubase. Gak.)
So…I always told myself my next computer will be a laptop. I don’t think I will buy the power-user Mac laptop (as it’s over $2000), but they will be releasing a new version of the iBook soon enough…in the next few months.
So faithful readers – my quandry (quandary?) is this. I can’t really justify buying this at this moment in my life.
So what does one do when they can’t afford something? Sell something they own!
Give me some ideas of what I can sell off to make this purchase. I was thinking my comic books, but really, that is a long procedure and I don’t think I would make much profit off of them. I was also thinking old computer parts…but alas, I really don’t think old computers are really profitable (unless I find someone who doesn’t know a thing about computers and bail it on them.)
iplaying: Hello Old Friend – Eric Clapton – Crossroads