Mac Laptop decision

[yesthattom]

Ping, one of my SOs is going to buy the new tiny 12" mac laptop.
Work looks like they are going to buy me a mac laptop.

The big question is...

Do I get the 17" mac laptop and risk "one upping" my SO? She'll have just bought all the Mac she can afford, and I'll have gotten a more impressive one for "free"-ish.

Your thoughts?

(Alternatively: Should I get the 15" and forego the Firewire800 and other spiffy things that the 17" has?)

Comments

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Give it another month or two until the 15" AlBook is released-- they only didn't upgrade the 15" TiBook to match the 12 and 17-inch laptops because they have a ton of inventory. We can expect 15" Aluminum Powerbooks pretty soon, I'm guessing, and then you'll be able to get Airport Extreme, better video hardware (potentially... I'm not sure if the NVidia GeForce laptop chipsets are really better than the Radeon 9000 Mobility-- that's pretty sweet video on its own, and has some features that NVidia's laptop chipsets lack), and DDR RAM.

Anyway, I'd personally hold off on buying the first generation of any new Apple product, but perhaps that's just because I've been paying a lot of attention for a long time. 8)

If you can get away with waiting a few months, hold off for the 15-inch AlBook, though... I think the features are worth it. A larger cache, for example...

Personally, I think the 17-inch laptop is neat, but too big to really carry around. The 12-inch is too small for much more than super-portable use, and I think that leaving off the cache could cause problems. The 15-inch is a really great size, and then you aren't rubbing it in her face as much that you got The Big One.

YM, of course, MV.