buy a macBook

I’m flying home to Australia via London Heathrow, so I’m tempted to buy it in the airport on the way, since the pound is weak so this would save a few hundred euros – that’s a lot of money!

I have to wait four hours between flights so there should be time. Only problem is – I imagine there is a whole bunch of stuff that comes along with it. The boxes seem pretty big.

Has anyone done this? Is it plausible to fit a new laptop in your carry-on?

I’ve finally saved up the 1400 euros I need to buy the MacBook Pro that I want. So now I can buy it soon. I’m a bit nervous!

I think I might miss my current iBook G4, so here might be a nice place to eulogize it. Not that it’s dead. I’m using it right now. I feel so close to it, I almost feel like it’s watching me type this and getting upset. It was my first computer, and I bought it a bit over four years ago.

But at the start of the year, it stopped making connection with its battery – the battery’s fine, but the connection doesn’t work. So if it’s not plugged in, it’s off and it forgets stuff.
And it has a slightly temperamental plug, so it can sometimes switch itself off when I’m not careful. As you can probably imagine, this gets really annoying.

But it’s soldiered on for the last nine months somehow without continuing its descent. I thought it might get worse and worse.

I won’t say goodbye to it just yet. I think I should read about how to take better care of my next MacBook before I buy it.