Its going to be a dell

The nurse taking care of my lappie, {i decided to call him Ben, you know for benq?} called me yesterday and said the problem could be in the motherboard. And that it could take a long time to fix. So i have to live with the possibility that ben might never be back. So i have to make a decision on what new lappie to get. And its going to be a dell. Yeah dell.

What? No macbook?
Unfortunately no, i have my reasons. But why a dell? Well their customer service is among the best and their hardware is not too bad also.

Why not a macbook?
Macs are great, its a superb combination of sweet hardware and the best operating system in the world but at the moment, as a student i cannot justify the cost of owning one. I just configured a 14" dell for less than 3k. I know it runs on the dreaded windows vista but thats a sacrifice i can make, and if i want linux i have so many options to run it.

I guess another reason why i opted out of the mac is my unhelpable obsession for the darn things. Like i said they're nice but i feel there's more than just getting it. I feel somehow owning a mac gives you something of a cool status of sorts, like there's this kind of maybe possibly, i don't know pride in it. I feel like i need to curb in me the desire to always get what i want, and be content with what I have. So it more of a personal deprivation more than anything else. I love macs, i used robert's macbook for one night and thats all it took me to get used to it and it was lovely. But i think i will only get it when i start working or if i win a lottery or something.

~shalom~