Mr K has a schexy new Samsung Galaxy III phone in pearlescent blue (to compeiment his eyes) and is busy adding contacts, downloading apps, making strange message and ringtone noises and basically becoming acquainted with the wonders of Android interface after years of being a MacWhore.
Yale has recently acquired a new TV and is busy figuring out that a TV these days isn’t just for watching shoddy free to air programming or slightly better illegally downloaded international content, but it also has wifi, doubles as a fancy monitor and has built in Sudoku … the latter of which briefly had him FML’ing and in our book, this seems a perfectly justifiable reaction to discovering your new piece of fancy technology has an inerasable crappy game like Sudoku on it, so we’ll let that one slide. No doubt he’ll recover from the shock of it soon enough.
I too, have made a significant new high tech acquisition this afternoon – a new MacBook Pro with all the bells and whistles. Couldn’t tell you what the specs are (I largely leave these details to ‘other people’), don’t know what it came with, am pretty sure it will look like the store model, will turn on and do what it’s supposed to, but at this stage thatt’s just an assumption… because even though I bought it nearly five hours ago, I haven’t actually pulled it out of the sealed box yet. To be honest I’m in no particular hurry to do so – it’ll still be there when I get round to it.
Apparently this makes me a bit of an oddity. Most people these days have techno-joy and have to rip off the packaging, discard the box, pretend to flick through the handy multi-lingual user manual and jump right on into playing with any new gadget the minute they get their hands on it. But while I am sure this Macbook thing is perfectly lovely and I will grow to know it quite well, at the moment I’m a bit… meh, I’ll get there eventually.
So my new MacBook is a bit box of chocolates at the moment. Wonder how long I can leave it in the box before the others start to twitch…