The Waiting's the Hardest
[ rakaur on Wed Mar 08 at 08:08 PM // category: apple, hardware, technology ]
So, I’ve been busy with my bank, who suck. My friend got a custom $2,400 loan over 36 months. My bank’s minimum is $3,000 over 24 months. After fifteen minutes on the phone and my loan officer’s unending ruthlessness I got mine extended to 36 months. Unfortunately, the APR is ungodly, even with it being secured by the title to a new truck. I’m thinking if it gets bad enough, I’m going to find some 0% APR credit card and transfer it to there. Then, after that runs out, find another one. That’s what my parents have always done, and, trust me, they are the masters of debt.
But anyhow, I got the loan. I ordered my stuff as soon as I got home. I went a little crazy, and got something that I could have avoided, but, you know, whatever. So I ordered
- a new MacBook Pro (the $1,999 model);
- a backpack for it;
- an extra battery for it, and;
- a new fifth-generation, 30GiB iPod.
The last one is obviously the one I didn’t need for school. After all, I have a perfectly good fourth-generation. I found someone to buy my 4G for $200, though, so it’s not a complete loss. A net of $100 for a new iPod is probably worth it. So far, only the iPod has shipped. The backpack is supposed to ship tomorrow. The MBP and battery have an estimated shipping time of 2-3 weeks.
I also ran over to NewEgg and got a new wireless router/AP. I have a mind-blowingly awful Linksys BEFW11S4. It’s old, too. It’s never given me anything but problems. If I’m going to be depending on a notebook I don’t want to have to wire it to my network every time I need to transfer a lot of stuff, so I needed a G router. I’ve had nothing but bad luck with Linksys products (the router I have and a shitty KVM), so I went with Netgear this time. I got their flashy new B/G router with seven internal antennas and bells and whistles, etc. I would have gone with Apple’s AirPort thingy, but it only has one LAN port, and I have two wired computers. My notebook will ship with a G card, and my mother’s computer upstairs has a B card, but she doesn’t really need anything more. The Netgear gadget is supposed to double the range or something, so hopefully it will work in my back yard despite being placed in my basement. I can’t really put it anywhere else. My router/firewall computer deals with the Internet, and it’s right down here. Even if I moved it, I’d have to either buy another WLAN card or run a patch cable for my desktop.
I sure hope Macs are as good as I think they are. I have distant dreams of replacing my mother’s PC with an iMac.
But then, it’ll be a while before I get to see any of it. Except of course the iPod (which I won’t even be opening until the MBP gets here to use it with).
Now I get to be even poorer for a long, long time.
-- rakaur // 2006.03.08 @ 08:08 PM
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