Tuesday, March 11, 2008
outdated. and loving it. ;)
Today, gaston and i managed to revive hugo's dying ipod. Well, basically when we turned it on last night, it sputtered for about 10-20 seconds, and then blacked out. We tried to revive it by warming it up, talking to it, coaxing it to come back to us, all to no avail. We even gave it time to decide it wanted to come back of it's own accord. Finally, as a last resort, we managed to defibrillate it and it came back to life! With all its innards (and music) intact! *grins* Hugo's ipod, by the way, is old enough to not have a color display. Hence the drama. ;) Which brings me to the point of my post. I fall in love with old things and refuse to give them up even when they're way past the point of being en vogue. For example, I own the little blueberry clamshell notebook from the last century.   Out around the same time as the bubblegum range of iMacs, I love this baby to bits - even the name sounds edible.  Don't you just love the ad? I remember when I was 16, we used to have an entire mac lab outfitted with these things, and it was the coolest thing. Prior to this, all you saw was drab grey and cream - occasionally black - PCs (or macs). Of course I don't use it for big applications, but it sure came in handy when my ibook's logicboard crashed awhile ago. It was apparently the first wirelessly equipped laptop, although I never really used it with the airport card till *after* the crash. There is just waayyy too little space and ram. But it's good for typing up reports, and instant messaging, and photoshopping - all an undergrad really needs urgently. ;) The logicboard that crashed? Was from a laptop that was *almost* as old, but not quite. It's 5 years old, and it was one of the first ibooks introduced in the market - the kind with the transparent casing that you could decorate on your own once you remove the white paint underneath. I wish I had a photo to put up, but I loved it too much to take it along with me here. When I sent it in to apple, the dudes there were horrified that I wanted to replace the logicboard. Why? Because the laptop was so old, that replacing the system would cost almost as much as buying a brand new MacBook. Instead, now, I'm using yet another ancient ibook that my obop (thank you!!) gave me last year. It's faster than my other notebook, but not by much. And it runs almost all the programs I need, albeit slowly. The only complement I need to these dinosaurs is a half terabyte of external HD space in case these thingies die out on me. I hope they don't, but every day I come one step closer to the possibility of buying a new one. Perhaps I should update to one of the later versions, but once I fall in love, it's hard to fall out of it. Haha. And I love my small little ibook to bits. As tempting as the new MacBookAir is, I'd rather stick to my vintage little customised 12" anyday. ;) Same problem with the ipod. I've still got my chunky little green iPod Mini (with no color display), and a new-ish black and red version. None of the new ipods really do it for me - perhaps the iPod touch.   Phone-wise? Same issue. I've yet to found a phone I love more than my v70, although that is entirely TOO outdated - it doesn't even have a phone display. I mean, I have replaced it of course, because I do need an all-in-one phone with a camera and an mp3 player and what not. But I've yet to fall in love with another phone. Heh. And I still do carry it around as a spare phone. Although maybe the iphone might solve the phone/ipod problem for me. ;) Haha. Too many issues with that though - I'll wait till Apple has all the kinks ironed out. =) But at the end of the day, all these majorly outdated things slowly become vintage after all. Just like my quaint 1960-ish Cinquecento.
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