New computes

Had a rare opportunity yesterday...buy a brand-new Macintosh at a seriously discounted price. MicroCenter sent me a sale flyer last week, special pricing starting yesterday. Mac Powerbook Pro was $1799, 17", 2.5 GHz, 2GB RAM, 250 GB disk. Intel dual-core processor. Nice machine.

Deal too good to pass up, like when I got my refurb G5 in 2004. Only problem is that NONE of my existing Mac software will run on this machine...going to have to download entirely new versions of the freebies, and pay for a couple of others. At least I can do it piecemeal, unlike if I replaced my G5. Dreading that day...

So I got it home just in time to find out that my internet access is dead for the next 18 hours...sob!