new family member

World, meet Bernard. Bernard, meet world.

Bernard is my new MacBook. He's replacing Ridcully, my four-year-old titanium PowerBook who's started having some kernel panics. I convinced myself that if I'm going to have to go through the hassle of reinstalling the OS, I might as well buy a new laptop and sell the old one. It looks like PBs that are around Ridcully's specs are going for about $700, which conveniently covers much of the cost of Bernard. It's like trading in your boyfriend, except there's actually a marked improvement between versions. ;)

So far (you know, two hours in), I'm loving the new screen. It's so much brighter than my old one! (Of course, my work PowerBook is also much brighter than my TiBook, since it's only a year old.) He is running warmer than Ridcully, but not so much that I've really noticed it.

More on Bernard later, after I've beefed him up with some more RAM and a bigger hard drive. Those are on the way, as is his foofbag.

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 29, 2006
  Silly question, but how do you choose the names for your computers?  I'm guessing that "Ridcully" is a possible reference to Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels but why "Bernard"?
• Anonymous
  May 30, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 30, 2006
  Oh, and only get ram from Crucial - only from there, mArVin allways loves them and never had any problems or panics, ever!
• Anonymous
  May 30, 2006
  Oh, and when I fell of my cycle and broke my scaffoid in left hand, fell with full force with marvin on back, but marvin was safe and not a scratch coz was in his Viper case, hit my elbow right on bag, thought screen was broken....
  
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• Anonymous
  May 30, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 30, 2006
  Saint Bernard? Marvin from HHGG, knows everything n paranoid and depressed....
• Anonymous
  May 30, 2006
  Yah geeky is ok Nadyne - Marvin has soul though so each time its data gets transfered to a new body its a rebirth, soul stays the same, it knows it roots and pedigree. Its a soul mate, but a higher kinda love....
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  May 30, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 31, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 31, 2006
  I name my computers after archangels. Currently, I have Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel. And some are generational. For instance, my laptop (currently a 17" PowerBook) is always Raphael, and this particular one is Raphael IV.
• Anonymous
  May 31, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 01, 2006
  They say that Americans are the worst abusers of the  English language..
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 20, 2006
  lovin' my MacBook
• Anonymous
  June 21, 2006
  Assam wrote: >> Marvin has soul though so each time its data gets transfered to a new body its a rebirth, soul stays the same, it knows it roots and pedigree. Its a soul mate, but a higher kinda love.... <<
  
  Maybe Dr. Who names would be a good choice for one's main work computer. Every new computer and data transfer would be a regeneration. So, the first one would be William Hartnell, and the second one would be called Patrick Troughton and ... err ... well... it's fun to speculate about, though :-D
  
  And while we're on this topic: My iBook's called "The Octavo". If I ever get another one, I'm thinking about going with a book name again. Though probably not from Discworld.
• Anonymous
  June 19, 2007
  lovin' my MacBook