My new laptop is MACnificient!!!

Hello poor mortals!!! The moment finally has come!!

After 4 years plenty of capabilities of Alexandros, my first laptop, where I've been able to implement a lot of programs (from the GPS system for PROP ---Project of Programation--- subject, until the first versions of one of the pieces of the software of my Thesis Degree Project, through the entire test of the single-year coursing Industrial Engineering and the terrible Compilators practice using Linux Mandrake Community 10.1).

But, the time passes inexorably, and the hard disk space, the computational potence and the graphics card technology of Alexandros are archaic nowadays: well, it's true that a Intel Pentium M at 1.6Ghz with 1Gb of RAM isn't a bad laptop after 4 years, but I requires more capabilities, overcoats coursing a Master in Visualization and participating in a Project in Voice Generation. And finally I've decided to renovate my laptop, in midle of sadness (indeed, I won't abandon Alexandros, it will stay with me for the moment :P). So, I've bought a new laptop (are the logo that appears with these lines familiar to you? XD)


* Chapter 1. The election; tech specs of the laptop

After Microsoft released Windows Vista, I noticed that the PC world was going to bad places... God bless UNIX!!!! But the tyrant is too much strong and dominates all the world, like Roman Empire before the Middle Earth... all? Not all!! A little village in The Gaul, plenty of unsubdued gaulishs... oh my God, I was thinking in Asterix and Obelix!! XD I'm so sorry, but the two ideas are sooooo closing... :P because, oh!!! what a MACnificient laptop I've bought!!!! Yes, I wrote MACnificient for one reason :D:D:D


Tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! This is my new laptop: a flamant MacBook Pro by Apple!!!! What a nice creature, isn't it? :) Manufactured in aluminium for a better conducting of heat dissipance, it's a 15.4-inch display but so small as a 14.1-inch laptop!!! Apple has created an splendid machine... and with these great technical specifications! :)

• 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 2GB 667(Mhz) DDR2 SDRAM
• 800MHz frontside bus
• 160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• MacBook Pro 15-inch Widescreen Display with a new TFT LED technology
  
• Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
• NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 128MB SDRAM GDDR3
• Built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11b/g/n
• MagSafe Power Adapter
• Built-in iSight camera, DVI, VGA (DVI to VGA adapter included)
• Weight: 2.45 kg (battery included)
• Measure: 35.80 cm x 24.40 cm x 2.59 cm
• Battery Life: up to 6 hours

* Chapter 2. The photo report :P

Here you can view all the mounting process. First, you can see in the following figure two photograhps of the two sides (front and back) of the MacBook Pro box;


So, next, the second step: the box opened!!! :P what a nervous situation!!!!


And finally... now it would be great to hear a drumroll... XD my MacBook Pro off the box and put on my bed... woooooooooooow!!!


Beautiful, isn't it? So silver, and so potent... and so small for being a 15.4-inch laptop!! I'm really in love with Apple designs... :$ And the cold sensation when you touch it is incredible :P

Besides, you can notice the quite small measurements of the laptop seeing it in side of the carpet of the UPC, my university :P My laptop really enters in a carpet separator!!!!! (only a single inch of thickness!!!!! Or 2.59 cm, it's the same :P Believe me: Alexandros is one-inch-thick without counting the display!! XD and I'm not lying if I say that it's 0.4kg heavier than the Apple laptop).

And now, a singular capture of the two laptops turned on at the same time: Alexandros running WindowsXP (SP2) and the MacBook Pro running Leopard... two worlds on the same table!! XD



* Chapter 3. The name of the creature

As I said in a previous post, I named my computers in a demigod mithology based name system. But, I've decided to change this system with the Apple computers (yes, I wrote computers, in plural... more surprises are coming, poor mortals!!! mwaaahahahaha I'm not rich, I'm simply crazy XD you will see, I'm sure of this... :P).

Because of that, my MacBook Pro receives the name of Behemoth!!!! Maybe some of you will know this fallen angel with one of its alternative names, Bahamut (the arabic homonym creature), because it's used in Final Fantasy role playing games for one of the most strong summonings in the saga :) Really, Behemoth is a fallen angel mentioned in the Book of Job, 40:15-24. Its meaning is beast or large animal, so metaphorically, this name has evolved and has been used for any extremely large or powerful entity.


In some hebrew legends, with the Leviathan creature, the two both fought in the Dawn of Time, and God must defeat them before they'' be able to destroy the World. Another legends are maintaining the opposite: their battle will be placed in the Judgement Day. In the Middle Age, Behemoth was considered a demon. And is because of this last meaning, a demon (or a fallen angel in terms of judeochristian mythology), for my MacBook Pro has its name.

A fallen angel is an angel banished or exiled from Heaven because of its disobeying or rebelling against God. Lucifer, the best-known fallen angel, rebelled and was cast out of Heaven and fell to Earth for his offense. According to some traditions, fallen angels will roam the Earth until Judgment Day, when they will be banished to Hell.

And in the computer world... who is considered the God, and who is considered the rebels??? Well, the words are more than enough in this case, no? XD



Well, I maybe be too much pompous with this post, but I think the theme deserved this epic tone XD Welcome to Behemoth in the lair of Ignis Lacrima!!! This is probably the last post I write using Alexandros, but you won't be forgotten!!

Hail my dear fallen angels!!! Hail Apple!! Hail Mac!!!