Well, I suppose it has been a while since my last big-ticket purchase. Financially I’m doing alright (at least as far as students can) and surely a laptop can be classed at least partly as a study-facilitator? Still, a laptop is a luxury for anyone, especially someone with a perfectly good, functioning, nay speced up PC at home. The shame builds when you take into account what brand of laptop I bought. Oh yes – you all know now, I bought a……. mac.

I think I started to have some regrets as soon as I walked out of campus computers on Friday having just shelled out $1800, but it has to be said that I did get $150 off simply for being a student, and I also qualify for $200 cashback because I bought an iPod nano (which cost less than the cashback – score – and is going straight to eBay anyway!) at the same time. Still, I now own a very wanky piece of hardware, and have little reason to actually own it.

Oh well, at least now I can sit in the law library and look like one of the cool kids… albeit while clearly giving away my true colours trying to write up sciencey stuffs.

For those at all interested, it’s the middle of the line macbook. White, Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz dualies, 2GB of RAM, and a 160GB harddrive. I’m pretty sure the graphics card is a simple integrated one, but then who games on a laptop? Give me a couple of weeks and I’ll get back to you as to whether or not it was a complete waste of money. At the very least it’ll provide a couple of weeks of fiddling with an OS I have no experience with.

Pete