So I am long overdue for a new computer. I have had my Power Mac G4 533 for a REALLY REALLY long time now. I got in March of 2001. Wow, it will be celebrating its 7th birthday next month. Hard to believe because if it were not for my desire to have a laptop, I wouldn’t even be in the market for a new computer. This thing can still handle everything I throw at it. Luckily I am not working on anything too intense. Just some web design using photoshop, and then coding them up in TextMate. It does struggle a bit when watching video on Hulu and other services that have larger video files. And of course the spinning beach ball shows up intermittently.

I’ve getting closer and closer to biting the bullet and getting a laptop. I’m almost sure it will be a Macbook Pro. I have used the Macbooks, but I think i want the extra screen space, as well as the dedicated video card. I can see this thing lasting me a long time, unless I start playing the sell every year or so and buy new game like others do. I’ve actually been looking at some used first generation MPB’s. The ones with the Core Duo chips rather than Core 2 Duo. The way I see it, this would be more than enough power, and save me upwards of $800. Something to consider, and I think I will make my mind up once Apple releases the newest MBP, which should be any day now.