On owning an apple

Man I got it bad when it comes to the apple "remorse" bug.

Last August I bought my first significant apple product, the iPhone 3g. The hidden consequence of the purchase is the "low" price. Instead of paying 1k+ for a handheld doo-dad computer, I only paid 3 bills for it. So now to buy the new iPhone that came out, I'm looking at the much steeper "real" price of $5oo-$600 or something similar. This is only for an incremental change, nothing neccesary, but I do want.

Last February, I also decided to go for it and get the new aluminum macbook. I ended up getting the +1 version of the macbook because I wanted the handy light up keyboard. More memory, hard drive space and faster processor was all secondary to the decision. All in all, the purchase set me back 1.5k.

Now last week comes around, apple announces the new iphone and the new "macbook pro 13". The iPhone I've pretty much come to terms with. I really couldn't have waited the almost full year for the "better version" especially considering all of the use I've gotten out of it. The macbook is unfortunately another story. I have barely gotten any use out of it. Only until recently I decided to drop the bill and join the iPhone app club. Now I'm using the laptop quite a bit, but I feel like I could have waited it out, gotten the better / cheaper one. I find myself rationalizing the purchase, finding flaws in the new one, justifying every penny in my macbook+1. It doesn't seem to help really.

Once the novelty of "new macbooks" wears off and I get it in my head that new computers come out all the time, I'll be good. Of course I'll be getting a new iPhone, that's a given :P. But a new macbook pro? The one I wish I could justify upgrading, I really can't.