March 14, 2008
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Since mid-December I have been using one of the Centre for Astrophysics white MacBooks, which has been a joy. A proper working laptop, not the Frankenstein monster my beloved old PowerBook had become. Dead battery, dead hard drive, dead optical drive (with Japanese sexploitation film stuck in it).
Today I turned it on for the first time in three months, not even as its own machine, but slaved through FireWire to the MacBook, and then overwrote its disc with two and an half hours of:
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Then I went and bought a new MacBook Pro.
erasing volume…
macbookpro 15" widescreen
white polystyrene semispheres
apple seen through grey fog
mmm… cables, cable-ties
read the software licence agreement
half an apple
oh!…
macbook pro and fuzzy keyboard
fuzzy command key and some trackpad
power delete eject louder hinge
the universe