It’s the start of a new school year (reasonably close, at least), so it’s time to gear up. After all, both of my computers are showing their age, and my printer refuses to output yellow ink (and sometimes it’s not fond of printing at all). Therefore, after a couple weeks of mulling it over, I decided to take advantage of my educational discount and some nice back-to-school rebates from Apple to upgrade the apparatus
(one of my favorite Tick-isms). Now I am the happy new owner of:
- 1.8 GHz iMac G5
- 20 GB iPod
- HP Deskjet 5940
I made the final decision to go ahead with the purchase while in work today, so I stopped by the new mini Apple Store in the St. Louis Galleria on my way home. After taking a quick in-person look at the merchandise to make sure I had settled on what I really wanted, I presented my shopping list to one of the clerks. He took it in back, and one credit card swipe later, I was walking out to my car loaded down with technological goodness.
When all is said and done (taking into account the educational discount and the rebates), I will have saved $100 on the computer, and gotten the iPod for $90 and the printer for free. (But then there’s the tax…)
Oh, there’s one more reason that was probably in the back of my mind urging me towards this spending spree. Elvenyukiryu mentioned in her blog the other day about flirting with the possibility of buying an iPod mini, and there was no way that I was going to let her beat me out on getting an iPod! ;-P
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September 20th, 2005 at 1:09 PM
Steve–you know I’m not very technologically savvy, but I’m jealous of your new goodies. While my laptop is in the shop, I’m stuck using “the dinosaur”, which is our pet name for our oversized desktop computer with a Pentium 1 processor and Windows ‘95 OS. (That’s right–WINDOWS ‘95!)
October 5th, 2005 at 10:18 PM
iPod GOOOD. (copycat)
Although your 20gigs definately kills my mere 6. but my green is so much sexier. BWA HAHAHAHA.
Happy new computer. Miss you dear!