After all the news coming out of Macworld and CES, I find I’m thinking less about MacBooks than I am about dual core Intel chips. Over the past few months, my computers have been taking on very specific roles:
- My Athlon XP system that I built is really my games machine (recently upgraded as cheaply as possible to the minimum requirements of Half-Life 2: Lost Coast)
- The Dell laptop is more and more becoming my work machine (Word, Thunderbird, OpenOffice 2.0, etc.)
- And my 12″ PowerBook spends most of its time plugged into a 20″ monitor. I use it for organizing my music, scanning and editing my family’s slides from the 60s and 70s, and just about anything that has to do with digital media.
Now that core duo laptops are appearing everywhere, I have the opportunity to either buy a new Mac, or put that power where I really need it: a Windows notebook that has the muscle I need for gaming and my day-to-day work, and I could retire my current laptop and desktop.
And then there’s Vista… all these PC laptops coming out seem very much to be Vista-ready, but then again, it’s possible that the MacBook Pro is, as well. So if I wait a little while, maybe I can eliminate the three computers in my office by getting the one that really does everything I
need.