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Ok I only have 365 days left until I turn the big 3-0. I guess that means that I have to really accomplish something this year.

But to save myself ... I realized that I am only 23 and have plenty of time ... in fact I can be 23 forever.

I guess its all about picking the right number system.

My birthday present to myself will be a new laptop. Anyone got any good recommendations?

Anyways, I need a beer.

Published Aug 14 2007, 01:44 PM by Greg

Comments

Myles Bostwick said:

If you're a windows guy, go for the IBM Lenovo. The T61's just came out and they are fabulous machines. Otherwise you should get a Macbook Pro, but wait until October for Leopard.

# August 14, 2007 2:58 PM

Joe Ocampo said:

Congratulation.... MacBook Pro 17"

# August 14, 2007 3:04 PM

Jason Gerard said:

MacBook Pro!

# August 14, 2007 3:25 PM

Greg said:

My primary machine is FreeBSD now ... I guess that a move to mac wouldn't be too painful :)

# August 14, 2007 3:43 PM

Tin said:

get a mac book pro and install window xp :-)

# August 14, 2007 5:25 PM

Aaron Junod said:

macbook -pro :)

# August 14, 2007 7:43 PM

Brian said:

I just switched over to a MacBook Pro about 4 months ago. It was pretty scary for a Windows only guy and a person who developed in Visual Studio for a living. With that said, I can now say that buying the MacBook Pro was the best computer purchase I have ever made. I decided to take the plunge knowing I could always use Windows on the hardware natively if I didn't like OS X with Boot Camp. Right now I am trying to finish off finding replacements for my Windows apps in order to get it off of my MacBook entirely. If my recommendation isn't obvious, get a MacBook, but you might want to wait until October so you can get Leopard with it.

# August 15, 2007 12:22 AM

Eva said:

Its 366 days until you turn 30. Are you sure you're good at math?

# August 15, 2007 1:14 AM

Eric Wise said:

Alienware, hands down.

# August 15, 2007 10:36 AM

JD Conley said:

Please define your requirements, then perhaps i can make a recommendation. ;)

Do you prefer thin/light or ultimate power?

Screen size/resolution requirements?

Primary usage?

# August 15, 2007 12:38 PM

John said:

Get XPS 1310 , its worth the wait !

# August 15, 2007 1:42 PM

ScottBellware said:

I'm going with the crowd... MacBook Pro. Best Windows PC I ever bought. The bluetooth stack written by Apple for Windows is also the best bluetooth stack I've ever used. It's cheesy, but even the stuff that Apple creates for Windows seems to "just work". There are some corner cases where there are quirks with some of their apps, but for the most part, they just work. As for apps on Mac... I'm pretty much completely converted to Mac for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, email, address book, and calendaring. Saying goodbye to Outlook was grand. I prefer to do my dev work on my Mac, but I have VS05 and SQL (etc) on a dual boot partition that I load into Mac via VMware Fusion. I keep old Windows stuff there as well.

# August 16, 2007 3:56 AM

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