bye ibook, hello macbook

it doesn't take much to make me happy these days.

a lovely sight at the beach where the trumpet trees are in full bloom.

or the sight of a double rainbow after a day of rain

or a new laptop :-)

have a birthday present six months early. my first Apple laptop, ibook, has made way for a macbook.

my ibook is only four years old but the battery was so weak, i needed to charge it all the time. which means it stopped being a laptop, more like a desktop cos i needed to be close to a socket. which i could live with cos i was so attached to my ibook. it never gave me any virus nor spam problems. it was easy to use and i learnt to do without a mouse.

when i happened to pop into the Apple shop at wheelock some weeks ago, i asked if i could just change the battery and buy a new charger cos its wires were frayed.

the young punk gave me this incredulous  "ibook???? where have you been" look.

he said ibook is obsolete now. no, i cannot buy the battery there but i could try "some old shops" in sim lim square.

if i can find it, how much would the battery cost? 

over $200.

and a new charger?

over $100.

he then said, you might as well buy a new laptop.

undaunted, i tried.   so can trade in my ibook?

he raised his brows so high i could see more white than black in his eyes. deflated, i told him i'd think abt it and walked out.

i pressed on with the ibook despite being stuck in one spot all the time. i scotchtaped the fray wires and had to give it a slight tap every now and then when the contact was not good.

until last week when the charger decided to expire in style. in a poof of smoke, that is. one minute i was typing, the next, i smelled something burning, then saw smoke spiraling up and then a nasty zzzt.

i gave out a yelp of helplessness and quickly switched off the ibook.   

and realised i could not use it anymore cos the charger was dead.  

so that was how oz decided to buy me a macbook. 

i am sooo happy with it. it's longer and faster but it still feels the same. it's still white (decided agst the macbook aluminium which cost a few hundred $ more for that sleek matt look).

the first evening i brought it home, i tinkered with it for so long with a beam on my face. that was when oz said, it doesn't take much to make me happy.

^o^