Yes, ladies and gentlemen. I have gone over to the other side. Or at least I'm now working from both sides. I'm the proud owner of a new 15" Apple Powerbook G4, which has solely transformed me from a semi-wealthy individual to a poor indebted sucker just like you. Ho-hum: this is my Christmas present to myself.

I feel like such an idiot with this thing. I don't know how to work it, I don't know the subtle intricacies, but at the same time it does really minor things that make me drool. It shows my Netflix Queue right on my desktop! It shows the moon phases! It lets me play my new favorite game, Sudoko!

More than that, it lets me use Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and Illustrator, which is the main reason why I bought it. While I've wanted a laptop for quite awhile, I realized that I wanted a Mac so that I wasn't just buying the same computer I already had, only mobile. I wanted a whole other computer that could do altogether different things. And I wanted to get a Mac before they started installing the Intel chips, because while I do love/lust the Pentiums, I don't want to buy a first generation of anything. When you buy the latest and greatest, you are essentially a beta tester. It's much better to buy the tried and true.

So anyway, if I wasn't a geek before, I certainly am now. Cheers.