Because I would take pictures of my new computer’s absolute sexiness.

I cannot explain how much I love Macs. And this computer takes the cake. It’s awsome. Too bad the only webcam is inside of it - because I really want to show this thing off.

I have a real dilemma here.

Okay, so I ordered my macbook last night. The reason I ordered it online is because I wanted to customize it a bit - add some RAM and add 20 gigs of hard drive space, from a half gig of ram to a full gig of ram, and from 60 gigs to 80 gigs of hard drive space.

I just looked because they started processing the order, and even though I chose an expedited shipping option, I’m still not going to get my laptop until Aug. 2. By then I won’t even live here anymore (Boyfriend and I are moving Aug. 1, we just don’t know what our addy will be yet).

My dilemma is this - I want the computer before that. A week, including weekends, I could deal with. Two weeks? Forget it.

So my question is, should I cancel my order on Apple.com, and just buy a slightly downgraded version at the Apple Store or Best Buy? I’d save money and possibly be able to get an ipod - however, I’d have a slightly less functional computer. Keep in mind that I could upgrade it at a later date if I wanted to, that sixty gigs on a Mac is a little more than you’d get out of sixty gigs on a PC, and that Macs use RAM a little more efficiently than PC’s do.

Would it be worth it? I need input, help!

Edit: I cancelled the order from Apple. I can upgrade later (there’s a full-service Apple store in Sacramento, where my uncle lives, so I could do that) and with the money I’ll save, I can get my boyfriend his birthday present (an ipod shuffle). Thanks, everyone! I’m sorry I haven’t been posting much lately - Real Life, as much as I hate it, has to take preference over the Internets. *sigh*

I spent the day biting my nails anxiously, waiting for word.

Word that I’d gotten approved for my loan.

And I did. I get the money tomorrow, and by next week, I should be the proud owner of a brand-new MacBook.

I’m very excited about this, just very, very tired from the day of playing the waiting game. And it was the most awsome waiting game EVER.

Does anyone have a game that they’ll defend to the death against anyone, they just love it that much? I do, and that game is Final Fantasy 7.

I don’t care about how bad the graphics are now (recall that they were state of the art at the time), how antiquated the battle system seems in comparison to games like FFX, FFX-2, and FFXI (which I have not and will not play, btw), how MIDI-ish the music sounds (I love the music!), or that there’s no voice acting. Final Fantasy 7 is just, overall, a kickass game, and it, to an extent, revolutionized RPGing for consoles.

The reason I bring this up is because I was sitting at Candice’s house last night with her and Mangas, racing chocobos to get GP to go to the Battle Square and get BP to get Omnislash (I know…I know.) and Mangas, who has indeed played FF7, was teasing me about how bad the graphics and sound were (like it’s my fault, right?). And Candice and I automatically went on the defensive - like someone had personally assaulted our personality.

Does anyone else have a game like that? Cuz, I mean, I’ll defend FF8 and FFX to an extent, but FF7 I’ll argue with people over hours at a time. FF7 got me into Final Fantasy and RPG’s as a whole, and essentially changed the entire direction of my life (or else I’d have probably gotten that Naval Academy appointment I wanted, but you know, I was too busy playing Final Fantasy 7 to care about homework).

Another one is Bust-a-Move. I don’t care how crappy an arcade game it was, it’s AWSOME. And there’s no way you can talk me out of it.

But yes, that’s my question - what game do you love to the point that you’ll defend it to someone who isn’t going to be convinced? It could just be an awsome game, or it could be the game that got you INTO gaming, or it could be something that just amuses you, or it could be a combination of graphics, sound, storyline…whatever. Which one?

(Tasha certainly likes asking questions, doesn’t she?)

I am so totally switching to a Mac as soon as I can. I never have the problems I had tonight with a Mac.

I spent like two hours at Candice’s house trying to get her computer to recognize that it is, indeed, connected to the Internet, and still it failed, even after a call to my father, the network technician. I hate PC’s with an anger I can’t even describe.

Luckily, mine doesn’t act up. Now that I’ve tweaked it out to act like a Mac, that is.

And another thing - they don’t make nearly enough awsome games for the Mac. I had to search FOREVER to find a Solitaire game for Mac OSX at work. You know, cuz I need something to do there that isn’t work.