Kindle goes bad

Are you kidding? It appears that owning a book on a kindle means that you own it at the publishers discretion and not your own.

I have been following the Kindles progress with great interest and have been patiently waiting for Amazon to introduce it down under to New Zealand and Australia.

However behaviour like this is a deal breaker.

Windows 7

Part of my justification for getting a MacBook Pro was the fact that with bootcamp i can install windows. As i am a .NET developer this is kind of dealmaker or dealbreaker :) The process was easy.

1. Create partition in bootcamp
2. Boot to windows and format partition
3. Install windows
4. Drink beer

MacBook Pro

So after much debating and googling i finally bought myself a new laptop. Its been on the cards for quite a while and i did a lot of looking around.
I was quite drawn to the macbook pros when i first saw them but the cost kept put me off. I had a look at the dell XPS range, the IBM thinkpads and a quick nosy at the sony vios but i just kept coming back to the macs. The design, the build quality and the fact i could maybe play at some iPhone development were all just too tempting.

So i ordered one about two weeks ago and it arrived last week. Aside from the fact that the numpty TNT courier dropped it about 10 feet in front of me when he was trying to put in on the receptionists desk -it survived the fall- i have been impressed.

The unboxing was treat. I thought that when i open my iPhone that that was an awesome experience, however it pales into comparison when opening a MacBook Pro, the whole experience puts you in a delightful frame of mind and then you simply open the aluminium lid and enjoy.

I have been using the laptop for about a week now and so far it has been a dream. Easily the most satisfactory piece of hardware i have ever owned