Nov 3, 2008
Enter Sandman.
I’m typing this on a brand new MacBook Pro. I called it Sandman. I picked a character from Neil Gaiman‘s books, one of my favorite authors, and with the glass screen and trackpad I chose Sandman. Tenuous at best I know, but hey, it’s my laptop.
So how did I get this beautiful, sculpted, top-spec laptop? Especially one I lusted after?
It’s a replacement for my previous MBP which exhibitied graphics glitches whenever the system’s temperature spiked (doing heavy rendering, video conversions, etc). I managed to screen record the problems and showed it to the Apple Geniuses at the Regent Street store. After a couple of days’ testing they couldn’t replicate the fault and so the manager authorised a replacement for me.
The MBP they gave me today is top spec: 15″ screen; 2.53GHz CPU; 4GB RAM; 320GB HD; and with two graphics cards, a 512MB ATI 9600GT graphics and a 256MB 9400M.
I’m speechless. And I’m very very happy!
