retail therapy accomplished

[jazzfish]

A discussion with darkfyre_muse yesterday reminded me to take a closer look at the displays that were being offered. Turns out the only way to get a non-glossy display on a Mac laptop is to spend more money on a larger Pro. And poking at them in the store confirms that the antiglare is o so very much nicer on the eyes. Feh. I was looking forward to a slightly smaller machine but no dice.

So, yay for the Refurbished section of the Apple store, which has provided me with a 15" Macbook Pro that's slightly better than the baseline spec and has an antiglare display, for about what I could have spent on a baseline machine in the store today if they'd had one. (As of early this week $company gets an Apple discount, but it doesn't apply to refurbs.) Which is still more money than I've ever spent on anything that's not a car, by about a factor of four.

Oh well. In theory, and based on what I've heard from just about everyone who has one, assuming I like this computer it'll last me until at least the middle of the next decade.

Now to wait impatiently until the end of next week, and also to see how twitchy buyers' remorse makes me.

Comments

[plumbob78.insanejournal.com]

Oh, no, you're not one of those people who argue that 1930 isn't part of the thirties, are you?

[jazzfish]

The thirties actually began in October 1929, and probably ended in December 1941. I don't have any idea when the forties ended. The sixties started in late November 1963, and the seventies started in, mm, January 1973 with the Paris Peace Accords. The eighties, for once, began in November 1980. I don't have a good sense of when the nineties began; I was kind of wrapped up with being a teenager at the time. It seems facile to date them to November 1992.

And obviously the Zeroes began in September 2001. I don't know if they ended in 2008 or if they're still going.

(To answer your actual question, I'm mostly digging in my heels to avoid admitting to having made a mistake. :)

[plumbob78.insanejournal.com]

*goes shopping for a new timeline*