Caught in the Apple Waiting Game

February 8, 2008 · Filed Under Blog, Technology

For those of you who don’t know, I am a musician and a computer geek. I have been building computers and playing with them and doing all kinds of other stuff with them since I was about 14 or 15 years old, in my basement, attempting to pass the time when I couldn’t play sports after my first of two knee surgeries. I am a PC guy at heart, just because that is where I started. Technically, I guess I started with an Apple IIe sometime in the 80’s, but I hardly think that counts. That was when monitors were monochrome, printers had ribbons, and mice were the furry rodents running in the shadows of the basement. Today, we have a very different landscape, which I don’t need to really say in a post on the Internet. But I digress…

I am ready for a new computer. I want a snazzy piece of equipment that I can use to do all my silly hobbies. I want something that I can use to update this website. I want something that I can use to record my band’s music. I want something to do minor photo editing. I want to edit vids for Youtube that might feature the band playing music or just goofing around. On top of that, I want convenience, portability and elegant design. I want a computer that I can be proud to own and will also do absolutely everything that I want it to do.

Cue the trumpets. The big winner is the MacBook Pro.

I was thinking the 15.4 inch screen with Boot Camp so that I can dual-boot it to run Mac OS and Windows XP simultaneously. I am going to use Logic Pro Studio for music production instead of the clunky ProTools LE that I am using today. I will try out all the Mac programs for photo editing, web page design, and if I am feeling froggy, possibly even try to edit a font or something equally Mac-like.One problem though.

When do you buy a MacBook Pro? I thought I was being smart. I waited until after MacWorld where Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air. (Did you know that it fits inside of an envelope?) He made no announcements about the MacBook Pro at Apple’s biggest event of the year. So, I should be good to go, right?

Wrong.

The Apple rumor mill is INTENSE. It never stops. Will Apple update the iPhone? Will the iPod line get a “refresh?” How about the new features on the MacBook Air? Will any of those make their way to a mid-term refresh of the MacBook Pro? It is enough to make a man insane.

Look. Here is the bottom line. I want to spend a lot of money on a new computer. I am making a monumental jump from PC to Mac in order to spend more money than I have on any computer since 1997 when I bought individual components and a server-sized case to build a beast of a PC with two video cards before ANYONE had two video cards, and a CD burner that cost $400 because the technology was so brand spanking new. I want to spend this money and get started computing in a new age. Help me out Apple. Let me know that it is ok to buy. Don’t leave me hanging onto the words of a bunch of Mac Fanboys who run unsanctioned rumor sites in order to make the biggest computing decision that I have ever made ever.

Tell me that you are going to make an announcement at the end of February, or on February 10th, or whenever the hell you are going to make an announcement. I need you to make this easier for me. I realize it could throw off sales of your products for a week or two, but I don’t really care. All I care about is my purchasing decision and not having to bow to the pressures of your announcement timings and rumor mills any longer. You are making this very difficult on me and I don’t appreciate it as I listen to Justin Long and his thinly veiled Bill Gates bashing.

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