Security blanket
I've had a PowerBook as my daily driver for about three years now; I'm on my second one, an 800MHz 15-inch model. What I've come to realize is that my PowerBook is the modern-day equivalent of a teddy bear or security blanket -- I can never seem to put the thing down.
It's not a Mac thing, though I do love my Macs. It's a tether to the digital world. My persistent Internet connection. I feel naked and somehow lessened without it. I'll be watching something on TV and look up information related to the show or commercial; I'll be responding to e-mail or IM'ing people while I'm making dinner. The PowerBook goes everywhere with me.
What's so odd about this is that I *like* it this way. I *like* being that in touch with information, having it that accessible and that immediate. Some people try to get themselves off the information grid; hell, if I could have a cybernetic implant that would keep me connected continuously, I'd probably do it in a heartbeat.
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I feel the same way about my iMac; my couch about 4 feet behind me gets no use. I can't take it with me, of course, so I "make do" with my iPod while I'm out.
Posted by: Alphax | February 17, 2004 03:08 PM
I hear ya! I'm that way, too. The living room is now my office. I'll sit there and listen to music, or as you do, look stuff up while I'm watching TV.
Big up the PowerBook!
Posted by: lyssa | February 17, 2004 04:37 PM
God, I thought i was the only one with this inability to leave the Powerbook at home. I find its become almost completely a part of me - even when I don't need a computer I find I've inadvertantly picked up my Powerbook (now a rather battered 550 Gigabit Enet with lots of flaked off enamel round the edges). Suffice to say the stupendously fast Fujitsu 3Ghz PC laptop I bought recently has never actually left home once.
Posted by: }{ellfire | February 17, 2004 05:48 PM