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You won’t get me this time Apple!

With the sun rising on yet another Tuesday, I commence my normal Tuesday morning ritual: Ctrl+T. www.apple.com. Refresh.

You see, I’m waiting. What am I waiting for? Good question. I am waiting for the next Apple product. I say product, because I am particularly in the market for a Mac Pro and a new iPod. I want these items. I need these items. I won’t buy them until I see that fresh title on Apple.com: “All-New Mac Pro. Power is Beautiful” or some equally simplified title that draws me into checking out the details.

I haven’t always been like this. I mean, who can keep up with the latest and greatest products EVERY time? You need some new tech gear, get it now right? Its going to be old in a few months anyway. I doubt even Bill Gates has the latest gadgets in his home.

So what. I’m waiting.

Ahhhh, I can still remember that day. That first day I brought my iMac G5 home. It was the new one with the iSight built in. A wonderful day it was. I was instantly sucked in to the whole ‘Apple Cult” deal, and went online surfing for other Mac users to spend the rest of my internet life with. I was in love with my Mac.

Then Intel came. Suddenly, my iMac wasn’t as cool anymore for some reason. My version had just been released, but already they have a completely new iMac that makes my iMac obsolete! Whatever though, like I said, you can’t keep up with technology. I went on with my life. Making short films. Making photo slide show DVD’s for family and friends. Then windows happened.

I had enough at this point. I immediately went into a frenzy to sell my iMac as quickly as possible before it was worth near nothing. I managed to sell it for $100 bucks less than what I bought it for. Then BAM!, here comes the Macbook. PERFECT. I had fresh cash in my pocket and a smile as I walked into the Apple store in Tokyo and grabbed a spanking new Blackbook. Yes. The speed on this baby is even faster than my iMac was! Yes. My life was complete.

I would take the Blackbook to work and show it off. Logging into Windows. Smacking my computer to change operating systems. All while maintaining a subtle grin as my friends were wow’d by my new laptop and its features. I was the MAN. I even convinced a few friends to “go Mac”. Then guess what. A new Macbook came after about a month of me purchasing, and had a bigger HD, Dual Layer DVD burning, AND it was faster! OH MY GOD. To top it off, this is the unit that my friends picked up. Sigh.
That was the breaking point.

Time went by and one day I decided that I wanted to get back into the desktop scene. The Mac Pro was the likely choice because it is pretty upgradeable, and there is nothing like that raw power, and throwing 1 or 2 wide screen monitors on your desk. I did my research, and saw that the new Mac Pro was nearly a year old, and the last “update” was only an addition of a non-true 8-core chip.

I decided I would wait.

This was sometime near the first week of June. I am still waiting.

I started this waiting with many other noble members on a forums I follow. Some of us couldn’t hack it, and gave in to the sneaky Apple and their pretty pictures.

A few rock hard hopefuls are still standing though. Still holding on.
I’m going to make it. I will be damned if Apple gets me this time. I will make it.

****Ctrl+T. www.apple.com. Refresh.***

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