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
13 replies on “New Purchase?”
I don’t know really what you could sell, but if you Mac, you won’t go back!!!
They really are marvels of modern technology.
Dang. The rumours are true. I’ll be selling my firstborn for ANOTHER Mac after I buy my first. 😉
gimme a call, I don’t know how I will do this for you, but I can get more information, I get discounts on Mac products. unless, you do too which you’d probably have a bigger discount :p but anywho, I’ll check it out tonight.
I’ve been told there are student discounts to be had at the campus computer store here. Kevin?
Mmmyeah…I know about the education discount. As long as I’m a student, DISCOUNT! YEAH baby! THanks!
How about that sweet Epiphone SG look alike?
Things you can sell to buy a Mac.
– Your Car
– Your House
– All your Musical instruments and accessories
– Your Organs
– Sell yourself (Male Gigalo)
– All your major appliances (actually you probably would not get enough money)
– A cheeseburger with the random imprint of the holy Mary on it.
I can’t think of anything else.
Let me know if you want to trade a powerbook for your car. (you keep the lease payments)
Yep, as long as you know of the education discount you’ll be all set. Gets you 10% off retail! You can take advantage of it by either going to a campus store (don’t really need to prove you’re a student), or going online and putting in “a” student number.
The thing is… they don’t care. 123456789 would work as a student number for CU, and as we know… it doesn’t exist!
Matt wants to buy the new damn video iPod, damn un-released/un-finished products.
Ya know…I was thinking it would be cool to get the new video iPod, then I realized how little I would use it.
I’m a music fiend. I like reading a book on the bus and listening to music.
I like walking down the street and listening to music.
I’ve decided the viPod is not for me. Sure, it would be cool to own, but would I use it that much? nah.
However, in the case of pros vs. cons, I suppose it would be cool to carry it around and just plug in my movies/vids (aka The Morning Show) into someone’s tv from my viPod.
But how often would I be doing that?
And if all you wanted to do was plug your vids into someones computer… well you’re planning on getting a laptop right? Both the current iBooks and Powerbooks are pretty simple to setup to do that, and if the new ones have even better video cards – just truck the laptop around for the occasional video showoff!
My 12″ Powerbook weighs less than 5 pounds. I think 4.6 to be exact (?). It rocks.
oh my, computer talk again…ark!
um, yeah, male gigalo uh? Pretty funny, not sure I would like that but heck, it’s your body right?!
(it’s the only thing I could talk about not to talk about computers again.. 😉
I for one embrace our computer overlords,
And remind them, that as a systems analyst, I will be good at rounding up all the old computers, which would be much more valuable than putting me with the rest of the human batteries.