Grumble grumble Apple grumble
I wish Apple would hurry up and bring out their new range of MacBook Pros. Right now I am juggling two laptops – a PowerBook G4 for everything except my Symbian work, and my wife’s ancient Compaq laptop for Symbian OS development. I can’t wait until I can use virtualisation to run everything on the same laptop: this means I need to buy a new Intel Mac laptop. It will make my life hugely more sane (and means Claire will get her laptop back… along with my old one).
But equally, I’m not willing to buy a laptop just before Apple brings out their new range (as has been rumoured since mid-August). I know I shouldn’t pay attention, and I should just get the laptop now. I know that waiting around is a mug’s game, and that if I have an urgent need for a laptop, I should just get it. I know all this. But I just can’t. I would regret it a lot were I to buy the old model, and the new one came out the next week.
(And yes, I know I could just do all my work on the Windows laptop, but escaping from Windows is one of the perks of running my own company. Besides I’ve got a big investment in Mac software).