There’s no picture because it looks pretty much the same as my last one. I was able to recycle the orange Flyers-Bugs Bunny armor to protect it. The ports and capabilities are better since it’s a 13″ MacBook Pro. I made the jump to Pro to regain FireWire capability (800 speed) and my favorite feature is the SD card reader slot. I plan to score an 8 or 16 GB card to build an emergency drive for it (Mac Life had suggestions on how to do it). The doubling of the RAM I have yet to take advantage of. The 20 percent gain in processor speed isn’t noticeable. Fear not, I will be showing it off!
What about the old one I bought merely a year ago? I can’t disclose its fate yet. It’s a surprise for someone and I don’t want to know how Web savvy the recipient(s) is.
Next portable move will be upgrading Somara next year. Her 2008-based MacBook can be passed on, probably to her sister in Florida. I think she’s going to love this model since she takes tons of photos with the kick-ass digital camera we bought last Summer.
Oh, why am I spending the electrons on this? Well, Picayune had been pretty quiet and I figured my few readers deserved an explanation. Getting the contents from Bugs Bunny IV to V took some effort. Time Machine refused to migrate like last time and the Setup Assistant kept detecting accounts which didn’t exist while ignoring mine. I had to resort to Plan D, imaging via Disk Utility and then blasting what I wanted through asr. Fun stuff.