I have a friend whose wife decided to water her MacBook with Coca Cola last week. For some reason, the alimentary additive (neither the water nor the caffeine) didn’t entice her MacBook to grow into a MacBook Pro. Instead, they went off to the local Apple Store where they happily parted with some hard-earned cash to buy a lovely MacBook that mirrored their old one (sans the soda).
All of that is well and good until Tuesday morning rolls around, the Apple Store is offline for a bit, and then–lo and behold–new MacBooks with more of this and that than the one my friend purchased just a few days earlier!
Notice: this is not a psychiatric session so it really is a friend
and not a thinly veiled descriptions of my own actions
So–he is peeved. He is a true fanboy so thinks that Jobs screwed him out of the newest/best for his own good, but I just can’t go down that path. Yes, if he didn’t have a job he could troll the rumor sites and live according to Mac mythology and rearrange his desk to work with the new Photoshop’d images of non existant hardware that merely exist in more devout fanboys heads, but why? Couldn’t they have announced that a new one was coming? Couldn’t there have been a wink/wink, nudge/nudge at the store letting him know he might want to wait until Tuesday?
I am sure the older MacBooks will be reduced in price now, right? They have to get rid of the old ones. So, I hope he at least gets a credit for buying the older model 72 hours before the new one appeared.
Perhaps a town crier would be best?
“The MacBook is dead! Long live the MacBook!”
(the one with more HD, faster processor, and video memory, I mean)
