Love to all.

I love you, blogworld. I really do. But this crosses the line.

“Crosses.” Right. This more than crosses the line. This SPRINTS across the line, runs another 100 or 200 yards, and then says, “Hey, LINE! Go fuck yourself!”

Then, this moons the line.

Windows laptop, indeed.

Weren’t you with me for the great Dell Fiasco of 2004? Didn’t you suffer through the HP Depression of 2005?

Yes, I’m selling a lot of Mac equipment. It’s true. But ‘m only doing it to get MORE, BETTER, Mac equipment.

Here’s the math:

• I bought the 17-inch laptop with my Developer Discount. I get one a year. I love the machine, but it’s really heavy (when you commute 2 hours a day, not including about 1 hour of walking), and the High Density monitor is actually hard on my eyes. Read: I’m getting fucking OLD. I should be able to sell it for around $2400, with is pretty much a breakeven, and $1300 less than what it would cost new (what a deal!) without the developer discount.
• The 12-inch laptop hasn’t been in service for about 8-months. I just haven’t got around to selling it. According to eBay prices, I should get around $400.00.
• The G5 - well, that’s a mystery. The thing is flawless, operationally, but the handles/case are dented. I’m putting a spread of between $600 and $1099 on that one.

Likely, then, selling this equipment will leave me with about $3400. With this, I need to get a replacement laptop and desktop. I should be able to trade the above equipment for:

• A refurbished Quad-Xeon 2.Ghz Mac Pro and
• A refurbished 15.2-inch Core 2.2 Ghz MacBook Pro

And still have a few dollars left over for extra RAM. Or a cheap Dell for Accounting.

Okay. I feel much better that we’ve cleared the air on these things. I hope you do, too.

Love to all. Even you, ITS.

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