Ever since the great Mac-out of February ’09, I’ve been thinking about having a second computer just in case my Mac ever truly dies on me. I didn’t want to spend the money on a new Apple when I barely spend any time on my laptop, and I didn’t want to own some clunky ten-pounder that would be too much of an eyesore to enjoy using.
And then I found this:
The Dell Mini, a 10″ beauty with a faster processor, more RAM, and more hard drive space than I have on my 12″ Mac. And this envelope case, which tells the world how much I love letter-writing despite my 3000+ unread Gmail messages.
It’s so tiny that I can carry it everywhere and so self-important that it won’t notice when the big laptops make fun of it every afternoon at Starbucks. I haven’t actually, you know, turned it on yet or anything since receiving it on Saturday, but I know I love it just from its glittery finish.
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You’re the only person I know who can get something new and not start wearing it out immediately.
You know what I am wearing out, though? The Fornarina bag I bought at that sample sale a few weeks ago. I’m packing it full of crap every day, putting way-too-heavy things in the side pockets, and shoving people in the subway with it with reckless abandon. I think the fact that it’s designer and is supposed to be taken care of yet only cost me $20 makes me want to show it who’s boss.
Yes! Isn’t it fun to mistreat things!
Gimme gimme gimme! I’ll be gentle!
I think I’m actually going to turn it on tonight. I may take a picture of you if you’re nice.
It is literally everything I can do not to put one on my credit card THIS VERY MINUTE. Because I do, after all, want to be just like Katie Ett in every way.
On the bright side, I was considering a Macbook Pro and NOTHING BUT a Macbook Pro until you posted this. You may have just saved me an awful lot of money.
Do it do it do it do it do it x 100!
I can’t actually tell you that it’s fun to use or anything since I haven’t pushed the power button yet, but I can tell you that it comes in lots of pretty colors. And I know that will win you over despite your best tries to not let it.
Oh, gross.
The pictures? No, I thought you looked quite sexy.
What’chu talkin’ bout Willis….I mean Katie!!!
[Said in my Arnold Drummond voice]
So now you’re trying to be like me…
I blogged about 7 weeks ago that I got the the..”then new” HP mini. Now you see the Dell mini and are trying to play like this thought just came out of deep space.
What gives missy??
This happens to me every day with my amazing music taste. I fall in love with an indie band, I talk about it nonstop for a week, I forget about, it becomes popular four months later, my friends tell me about it as if it’s some entirely new thing.
So you win at being cool.
Actually I don’t use the damn thing much.
It was more of a play thing.
The screen is too small for porn and it doesn’t have enough disk space for music.
So….what the hell else could I use this thing for?