Apple announced some product updates last week which will cause me to make a donation to Apple in the very near future. Of course, this will not be a completely unwilling donation and I do expect something in return for it – one Magic Mouse, to be precise. Don’t get me wrong – I’d love to make a much larger donation in exchange for one 27″ iMac as well, but that would put one significant strike down against me in the Mac inventory tally my husband keeps, and no good would come of it. Unless “good” in your book means “I now have enough proof to show my wife is crazy and should be institutionalized.”
Getting a Magic Mouse would free me from the wireless Mighty Mouse I currently use for my left hand (my right hand uses a Logitech trackball – I switch mice hands throughout the day in a vain attempt to minimize repetitive motion injuries). The Mighty Mouse is a great concept and it’s kind of cute, but I will say that it regularly causes me to envision doing horrible things to the engineers who designed it, usually involving a frantic, pants-less game of musical chairs and lots of really sharp thumb tacks. The damn ball in the damn thing keeps getting gummed up so that I can’t damn scroll down – scrolling in any other direction always works. If they’d worked out a way to easily disassemble the mouse so it could be cleaned thoroughly, I wouldn’t be so upset. But they didn’t, and I do. Regularly.
The next Apple product that will join my collection
I am still coveting another Mac of some sort. That 12″ PowerBook I mentioned recently may still be for sale and I’m going to make an offer. š I really should save my money and wait until January or so to see if a tablet is released, which would change my whole game plan, anyway. In the meantime, I do want to buy the AppleCare extended warranty for my MacBook Air, which I have only a few weeks left to do at this point. I think that will help greatly with its resale value when I get around to selling it.
Speaking of the game plan for early next year, it’s shaping up thusly:
- Buy a Mac tablet for portable use (but only if it has a usable keyboard or I can connect a Bluetooth one to it easily)
- Buy an iMac for desk at home (27″ if possible, but that’s highly doubtful unless I win the lottery)
- Sell current MacBook Air and 20″ Apple Cinema Display
plus husband and/or firstborn childto fund new purchases/appease husband - Keep iPhone (duh)
Do you have any Mac purchases planned in the near future?
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