Once when I brought home my MBP, Kerstin my wife had a look on it and said "It’s not running Windows, isn’t it?" and that was it for the first. Later on the one or other time when she saw me using it,  especially this animated little bird (Adium) did trap her attraction….. Can I have that as well on my PC? …. No you can’t!
But I also can’t have my GMX Messenger on that OSX? …. No you can’t!

Now for our vacation recently I’ve installed her Windows XP within Parallels and switched it to transparency mode for her. Working in this transparency mode it wasn’t to bad for her getting familiar with all and it happened more and more that I could use my MBP up to 15 or 20 minutes or so checking my emails and answering them …. And from then on my MBP was gone until the battery did flat out and it was anyway time to go to bed.

Back home now I was sure that I had to change that again. Going on sharing my MBP for longer? No chance about that!!!

So I headed directly to a few shops comparing offers about Laptops as I was aware that spending a few bucks for her own system would be the "Lesser of two Weevils"

Just honestly …. seeing all those cheap and nasty plastic stuff didn’t really make me buying one. Finally I ended up in ordering one of those Dell Studio Line system and even the finally chosen color (this option was for free) "RED" was something I can cope with.

A few days more and I will be able to enjoy my MBP again alone!

I guess most of you now know out of my earlier postings that I recently bought a MBP.

Me and a MPB? Now this sounds curious indeed and there were for sure a few curious view and question I had to stand. But I really wanted to find out about why others think about them as better, by enjoying something new at the same time.

Not really being sure about I later would like it, deciding for a specific model was a someway hard job for me.

Wanting it portable and being aware that buying too small or modestly never is a good choice, the smaller Macbook wasn’t a choice for me ever. On the other hand this large and heavy 17" chopping board seemed a bit to oversized to me. Thinking about to carry it together with cameras and stuff all time during vacation trip gave me some nightmares for sure.

So I finally focusing on a 15" model and looking into the specs, I decided about it is not worth to buy the bigger one. Everything added it more, except the video card memory, easily could added in later by myself easily.

So happy with me and my choise I finally bought the smaller 15" MBP and right from the first second I liked and enjoyed working with it. Getting familiar with it was easy doing and therewith set and found I recently decided to switch over with my video cutting projects to it as well.

Knowing about memory would become an issue then, I checked the Apple pages for more RAM… and found out about their horrible prices!! …..  Checking specs of RAM chips I quickly was sure about normal SO-DIMM would do. So finally yesterday on my way home I made a d-tour visiting a local hardware shop and buying two normal 2GB 667 SO-DIMMs (less than half the Apple offer).

Shortly half a hour later they were fit in and working.

Now (and for sure it would have to be someone else not me) not being able to resist digging deeper as well, I had a closer look at things. And I have to confess that not only the visible parts of the MBP are well designed. Looking behind and voting it, it is a "puter" … not more and not less, but the quality and manufactoring standard is high and … as a friend of me said once …. it’s a sexy feeling to own and work with one!