Tom’s Birthday gift
Sunday, July 29th, 2007It was Tom’s birthday on Friday, and the family and I had clubbed together to collect enough money for the gift he wanted.
He had a old Dell latitude laptop, a D400 or something, with the noisiest hard drive ever™. He wanted a macbook, so we drove off to Bluewater (our nearest apple store) to get one.
once there, we finally decided on a white macbook, same spec as the black one, but £80 cheaper. We saw the same sales bloke as the last two times, but sadly he let the impression I had of him down big time by pushing the sale of silly apple support things, ffs if we needed training on how to use OSX we would not be buying our third OSX machine this year… (all bought from the same sales guy btw)
I thought he would have realised the reason I liked buying from him was his no-nonsense selling manner, but maybe they have been told to try to mis-sell support services by management or something 
Anyways, we parted with too much money, then went to Costa (lot) coffee, Tom was well happy and opened the box right away to have a play (since apple ship there machines with 50% odd battery life)
The opening of a apple product is like so cool, you cannot believe how cool apple products are packaged. So he opened it up and went through the setting up sequence and had a play with it, all the time with a massive smile on his face.
Since then, he did a rebuild, as we are both geeks and like doing that kind of thing, and has hardly left it alone 
The dell laptop has not been switched on once, not even to copy data over, which I think is cool as I got a bit of peace from the clunky hard drive.
He even found some OSS book writing software and has been busy writing his mathematics book.
Lets end by saying tom is very impressed with the build, fit and finish etc of the apple macbook. we will probably be installing ubuntu on it at some point, as the ubuntu install is a lot easier on that than my macbookpro (which I am waiting for others to write ubuntu install guides for first)
