Technology lust and my mac affair

I lust for new technology. Even in college, I was always fascinated by new technology, even though I did not have much money, I would avoid going out but instead save whatever money I have and buy some computer or electronic device or peripheral. I always was under the illusion that technology would make my life better and better. I also ended up looking for happiness from technology. I don't think technology gave me long term happiness. I would be happy first when I got a new gadget or gizmo, I couldn't wait to unwrap it. But over time, the honeymoon effect was over. I then long for better technology.

Like a maniac, almost everyday I check www.macrumors.com www.engadget.com www. gizmodo.com www. autoblog.com www.autobloggreen.com and also www.gas2.org. I sometimes even go through these blogs many times a day or in extreme cases even few times an hour. I am thinking I should instead focus my attention and energy to manhood101 forum and read all the posts there, get some functional, useful knowledge rather than salivate looking at tech goodies. This change has not happened yet, but I hope it happens soon.

I am a sucker for apple products, ever since my friend introduced me to them in about 2005. I first got a video ipod with the money I had saved. I was happy when apple finally switched to intel processors. and I was even happier when they finally let users run windows on macs. Now there was no turning back, I was going to convert to a mac man from pc man. The question of converting changed from if am going to convert to when I was going to convert. It finally happened in summer of 2006 during my graduate school program, when I got my first mac. It was a macbook pro. I loved it dearly. I did not have in girlfriends, so these tech products were what kept me occupied.

The macbook pro seemed to be the most perfect notebook computer at that time, coming from a world of pc's. This thing was just amazing, the only thing I could find close enough on the pc side was sony notebooks. But sony copies apple all the time. This computer seemed to be the most perfect computer at that time. Until 8 months later, apple announced a macbook pro with better processors and graphic cards at which point I felt inadequate again. I wish the good feeling from tech products was more long lasting!