What a fun day at work. This morning I arrived to find e-mail from the person handling the Kinect beta check-out program that I could keep the unit I had. I suspected that if I held on to it long enough, they might tell me to keep it. I didn't get to be a full-time beta tester, but I got to borrow one a few times. Then I suggested it to one of my co-workers, and he randomly got to keep it for good one week. Knowing there was almost no remaining demand, I kept "renewing" mine in the hope that I'd get the same result, and here we are in release week, and here we are. Whoohoo! Saves me $150. I just have to figure out how to get Kinect Adventures now.
And if that weren't fun enough, Aaron and I got our laptops today. As it turns out, we could get 13" MacBook Pros if we wanted, and nothing runs Windows like a Mac. No, seriously, that hardware is so solid for Windows 7, and that's why my personal laptop, desktop and even my DVR are Macs. In fact, the DVR (a Mac Mini) runs Windows full-time.
Three guys total on my team have Macs for their laptops, and there is still a contingent of people at Microsoft who view Apple as the enemy, which is unfortunate. You can learn a great deal by embracing and understanding your competition.
Speaking of Macs, our lead bought one of the new MacBook Airs for his personal use, and it's nothing short of awesome. As in super wow fantastic awesome. He can boot Visual Studio in something like three seconds. It's nuts. I really, really want one. It's the skinny portable wonder of an iPad, only it's an actual computer. I really dig it.
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