Okay, first up is my first secret:
R.I.P. Lancelot the Laptop. Alas, I hardly knew ye, and already we must part.
The king is dead, long live the king.
I have a new computer. Awww, isn’t he pretty? He’s a lovely, souped-up G4 iBook running OSX Tiger. You know, the one with all of those marvelous, clever little widgets. Now all I have to do is figure out how to save some of my files that I didn’t get backed up in time from Lancelot the Laptop.
His name is Pantalaimon*, which I decided upon after realizing how utterly bereft I am without my laptop. Really, I feel as if a part of me is missing when I don’t have my computer.
So, that’s the “little” secret. I’m still waiting on permission for the big secret, the one I’m saving for the newsletter folks. Keep your pants on.
Me, I’ll just be keeping my Pantalaimon.
*Points to those who know what I’m talking about. And for those who don’t. Get thee to Philip Pullman, stat.
April 4th, 2006 at 8:51 am
*three cheers for Pantalaimon!* The book is currently residing on my headboard shelf.
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April 4th, 2006 at 9:07 am
Diana, he’s gorgeous!! I love macs and one day I shall earn one like that. *sigh* ;D
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April 4th, 2006 at 9:26 am
That’s the laptop I have, Diana. You’re going to love it!
Christina
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April 4th, 2006 at 10:19 am
Congrats on your new computer. But I’m still waiting for the other news. Impatiently, I might add…
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April 4th, 2006 at 10:55 am
Diana, how can you look so gorgeous all the time???? *smooches*
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April 4th, 2006 at 11:13 am
mmmmm…hardware
*g*
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April 4th, 2006 at 11:28 am
Mmmm….loves me some new computer. Can’t wait ’til my new desktop comes on Thursday!!
Congrats and welcome Pan!
= )
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April 4th, 2006 at 11:37 am
What pants?
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April 4th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Your new baby is adorable. Aren’t they so cute at that age? Hope he doesn’t keep you up nights.
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April 4th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Three cheers for Macs! I love love love my mac laptop and am trying to convince my boyfriend – also a writer – that macs are the way to go for his next computer (his old dell laptop is well beyond its last leg…)
Hopefully this one will serve you as well as the last!
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April 5th, 2006 at 6:17 am
Here is a curious, perhaps stupid question.
Why a Mac over Windows?
I’ve never used a Mac, but now that we moved to New England, it is what they have in my son’s computer lab. He used Windows in Texas.
Even though I don’t know how to use a Mac, they sure do look spectacular.
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April 5th, 2006 at 6:41 am
Why a Mac over Windows?
Why not?
The simple answer is that a Mac is what I’m used to using. I had a Windows-based PC all through college, though growing up I had everything from a texas instruments to a Apple II GS to a DOS-based computer that my parents kept until well after anyone used DOS.
After college, I used my IBM ThinkPad running Windows 95 (which, by the way, was out of date from the time I bought in in late 1997) until 2004. When I worked at the newspaper in 2003, I used Macs, and I liked them. They weren’t even OSX, yet, but I liked using them, so when I cam back from Australia and was in the market for a new laptop, my brother asked me what kind I wanted and I said a Mac.
Pros of a Mac: stable stable stable. If it crashes, there’s something really wrong. Less susceptible to viruses, though that will probably change soon. Plug and play that actually works. I can plug anything I want to into my Mac and it works. Camera, printer, whatever. It’s also pretty and I like the OSX interface. I like IPhoto and stuff. I like using it. I like the way it feels — I’m used to this OS and not Windows at this point,t hough I use Windows at work.
Cons: Proprietary. Many programs go wonky on macs or won’t play at all. (Windows media player, for example, as far as I can tell). Camino isn’t quite as nice as Mozilla, and sometimes I have problems with Javascript chats on safari. Or I used to. I don’t know if Tiger has fixed the problem. Also, unles you’re a student or know one, getting MS Office costs an arm and a leg and Mac’s own word processing is kind of a drag. Has anyone used Neo Office.org? How is it?
There’s really “I don’t know how” problems with Macs, though, Heather. They are just as user-friendly as Windows.
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April 5th, 2006 at 8:28 am
Um, i meant there’s really NO “i don’t know how to work Mac” problems, though. I don’t understand when people say things like that. There’s nothing myserious about the interface. It’s based on the same concept as Windows. In fact, it was Apple that invented the idea of “windows” from what I’ve heard.
There are some Mac users that are militant Mac purists and whatnot. I don’t feel that way. If I had my choice, I’d choose to use a Mac, so I bought one, but if I’d had a bit less money to spend, I’d probably have bought a PC and not cried about it.
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April 6th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
That’s the same laptop Ipicked up last month!
I’ve had the eMAC desktop for a few years, and I love the iBook and Tiger. 
Like you, I’m not militant, but I love the stability and ease of Macs.
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