I’ve been spoiled.

At work we need to test a variety of platforms and browsers for our customers, and to that end we recently rented a new iMac for a month.

I’ve always wanted one of these and now… well… let’s just say that my existing Macintosh doesn’t quite cut it anymore. MacOS X is beautiful, and there is untold hours of potential geeky tinkering with all that underlying Unix stuff. I gave up Linux because it was just too hard… but with OSX none of the stuff I learned in my months of toil using Linux goes to waste (hell, I can even get some recompiled Debian packages running on the iMac courtesy of Fink – Gimp, anyone?).

And the hardware…! I haven’t lusted after a material thing this much in years.

Must be patient. Must be patient. Must be patient. Save. Save.

In the meantime it’s hard to be bothered cranking up the old Mac at home anymore. I just can’t get enthusiastic about OS9. I know I’m being sickeningly childish…

…but at least Becky gets to talk to me some more now.