Diana and Bumblebee

For Diana's birthday tomorrow, I really wanted to get her something that felt substantial, she'd use constantly and would bring her a bit of joy. After having my old laptop as her own for about a year (it's almost four years old), and watching its battery get worse and worse, I felt pretty strongly that she shouldn't be stuck with a hand-me-down. She uses it a couple of hours a day, and it's a huge part of her connection to friends back east, and obviously a future tool for documenting Little Puzzoni's future.

So because I'm working, and you only turn 40 once, I decided to get her the 13" MacBook Pro that she's looked at many times in the Apple Store. She was a huge fan of the smaller form factor. The specs probably don't matter to her, but I can say that the machine is no slouch, that's for sure.

This is the fourth time I've used the migration assistant between machines, and I can't tell you how awesome it is that once it's done, it's like she was using the same computer as far as software, docs, photos, etc. It took about 45 minutes in this case, over ethernet. It's even sm art enough to know if you're not using a cross-over cable.

I've named all of the Macs after transformers. My first laptop was Starscream, and the current one is Megatron. I like to name the laptops after Decepticons, desktops after Autobots. The Mac Pro I just sold was Optimus Prime, and the new iMac is Metroplex (seemed appropriate to name something with a screen that big after a battle station/robot). When Diana inherited Starscream, she wanted to call it Bumblebee (her favorite from the movies), but I said it was a rule that you couldn't recycle names, so she went with Rumble.

So here she is with Bumblebee, happily Facebooking, knitting blog reading and checking her bank balance. Wait until you see the face she made in the photos from her unwrapping it!