So last week I got an iPhone 4.
That point is kind of important to the rest of this. Before, I had a first-gen iPod Touch. Don’t get me wrong, it was great for the occasional pocket surfing. But nothing like the iPhone 4. My iPhone is so much faster it isn’t funny. Things I used to have to wait for, I….uh….don’t have to wait for now. Webpages load faster, I can access Facebook though it’s app, I can take photos, on and on and on. Oh, it it’s also a cell phone. For those of you doing the iPod Touch + cell phone thing, it really is amazing once you get an iPhone. It’s like your iPod grows the ability to call and text, and surf from anywhere (lol, not with AT&T, but I digress)
Ok, why am I sitting down at this blog that I only sit down at when I have something to say that can’t be contained in a Facebook status update? Because, in one sentence “I really don’t feel like owning a laptop today”. I used to check Google Reader and Facebook when I woke up or got home from work. I can pull my iPhone from my bedside and do that. I can check them for work with 3G. My iPod Touch COULD do the bedside thing, but it was slow. My iPhone isn’t, it feels just as fast as my MacBook Pro does. Despite about 1/6th of the CPU power* and 1/8th the RAM. Why? Because surfing is really not that computer-intensive. Unless it involves Flash. Or some Javascript ray tracing. O LOOK RABBIT TRAILS. For the most part though, it is a simple thing that is easier done on simple machines.
That Mac Pro is looking more and more appealing every month. Now it’s not only my ever increasing video and CGI needs for power, it is also the fact that I like my iPhone more for the portable stuff. I want a tower more. Laptops are big. They’re heavy. They’re hot. They’re noisy (what? They make noise. iPhones don’t). I’m sure I’ll come around for the school year, when I need a full computer I can pack out once again, but for now? Seriously, Apple. Let’s hurry up with that 2010 Mac Pro.
*single ~800Mhz in-order core vs dual 2400Mhz out-of-order cores. So, probably more than 6x.
