laptop adventures

It's been an exciting laptop week here, and it's only Wednesday!

First, the bad news. On Monday morning, I dropped my MacBook Pro on my left foot. The laptop has the teensiest of dents on the corner that I dropped it on. My foot, on the other hand, has two broken bones. The staff at the ER thought that it was hysterical that I managed to break my foot with my computer. My co-workers are having the same laugh at my expense. I can't really blame them.

But then, there's good news. It's been time to upgrade my old laptop (a first-gen black MacBook that I named Bernard, which is a joke that no-one but me seems to get) for awhile, and I'd been thinking about an iMac, but the latest hardware update had me wibbling between the iMac and the new unibody MacBook. A tweet from Peter Cohen sent me over the edge: MicroCenter is offering a $200 rebate on the new MacBooks. So I picked one up yesterday morning. I've got a hard drive and an extra 2-GB of RAM on order, and then it shall vroooom. It's a goal of mine to not drop the new MacBook in such a way that breaks anything, let alone any more of my bones.