A shit ton of money in this case... Say hello to my new partner, the Macbook Pro 13".
I have made several rants about the old MacBook Air that has been failing on me more and more every day, and it was getting near impossible to first import pictures from the camera and then try and use Photoshop without it crashing every couple of minutes. It was high time to get a working laptop.
This was the second most expensive thing I have ever bought, car was the first, but I don't have it anymore. It's was definitely not an impulse buy, I have been deliberating this for months and knew I had to get it at some point. I wanted to get a really good laptop and as you can see, the specs on this new one are pretty damn impressive compared to the old one. Of course the Air is almost six years old so anything would be an upgrade, but I wanted something super nice with a pimped out hardware that would last me a long time.
I was getting a little anxious because when I chose this model from the Apple store, I noticed the delivery time was 3-4 weeks, and I'm going away on holiday in two weeks and I'm not risking a laptop failure while in there. I started looking this model from all the electronics stores in Finland and I found ONE, only one laptop, in the whole damn country, that would ship immediately. So I sold a lot of Steem and SBD (sniff) and ordered it before anyone else could. Even though I had to sell a lot of SBD, it's pretty cool to be able to buy something like this with the earnings from Steemit. All the money I invested to this laptop, goes straight back to making better content and earning more on Steemit to support myself.
I'm so happy that I now have a much better tool to work on my pictures and Steemit posts, it's going to save a lot of time, and more importantly, my nerves. The old laptop was an tiny little 11" and it's fantastic that the 13" is not much bigger than the old one, so it's still very portable. Since quitting my day job, I don't think I've stayed more than five days in the same place, and I do like laying in bed while I work, perfect.
I'm so excited to test out what this baby can do in terms of performance when I really go hard at it with RAW picture files. Every professional photographer has been telling me that I have to start using Lightroom and finally I can because I have a machine that can take the heat. The old one crashed as soon as I tried to import files to Lightroom so I gave up on it. It's gonna take me one time to learn all the new tricks, but I'm very motivated on getting better. The pictures in this post don't represent my photography skills, sorry, I've been too busy with playing that I just took fast pics with the iPhone.
I'll miss the light up Apple logo a little.
It took only two days for the delivery, which is very fast for the Finnish postal office. I've spend the whole day getting everything organised, loaded all the programs I need and been cleaning out the old laptop so that I can do a good reboot for it and use it for something stupid like watching Youtube videos while I work on this one. I'm staying in the city for a couple of days, camped up in my apartment alone with the laptop as we get to know each other.