Over the past day and night, we received around 7 inches of snow. We don’t usually get anywhere near that much around here so it was pretty cool, literally and figuratively. But what’s even more cool is a brand new iMac. Here it is in all it’s powered off glory on my desk, just waiting to be awesome.
And now, back to the snow.
My new iMac came in this weekend and today I completed my first day of work using it. It’s pretty much all downhill from here. Nothing I can ever use or do from this point forward will match the awesomeness of this device. I practically sat down in front of it this morning, experienced a vague warming sensation and then the day was over and all of my work had pretty much done itself. And to top it all off, my desk went from a giant pile of cords with a few devices sticking up out of it to one giant device with two cords that I can’t even see from where I am. Oh oh oh!! The mouse is magic, too. It scrolls with no scroll wheel. It left and right clicks with no buttons. It freaks me out.
This past weekend, I placed an order for a brand spanking new 27″ quad core iMac. That’s right, four cores!! The processor is a Core i5 which is confusing since it is four cores but five i’s. I don’t pretend to understand the correlation there, but one thing I do understand is LED backlighting, which it also has. I am so excited I would insert grunting noises here if I knew how. I am not sure when it will actually arrive at my door, but when it does I will dance the dance of joy.
I don’t know about you, but I am getting very tired of the AT&T and Verizon ad wars. If you don’t know what I am talking about, let me fill you in.
It goes something like this:
Verizon: “We have tons more 3G coverage than you and we are going to flaunt it because you have the iPhone and we don’t, so there.”
AT&T: “We have tons of data coverage too….. in our own special way. Oh oh, and we have the fastest 3G network…… in the 3 or 4 places were we have 3G at all.”
Verizon: “Haha, your map sucks.”
AT&T: “DOES NOT!”
Verizon: “Oh, I’m afraid it does.”
AT&T: “Well…… everything you said is actually true, but we are going to sue you anyway because we don’t like you pointing out our deficiencies. OH OH, I just remembered something. You can talk on the phone and use data on our network at the same time. Can you do that on yours? Huh? Can you? Why don’t you pull out your iPhone and try it? Oh wait, you don’t have one.”
Verizon: “…..SHUT UP!”
AT&T: “YOU SHUT UP!”
And so forth.
As someone who uses the data plan on both networks, I can honestly say that in my area Verizon is way ahead of AT&T. Everywhere I go, I get 3G with Verizon. I can count on one hand the number of times I have been able to use 3G on AT&T. Usually, I’m stuck with their Edge data service, which I think got the name Edge because it skirts the edge of actually being useful, but mostly falls short. But even on such a craptacular network, the iPhone still rules. Most of the time, I use the built-in wifi and connect my iPhone to my Verizon access point so that I can have my cake and eat it to. Mmmmmm, cake.
Recent Tracks
