Arbalest online

I finally bought my first mac last week. It’s a macbook pro with a 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo(was actually thinking of waiting for an Intel i7 based MBP) and a 9600GM(256 Mb) video card.  I like the macbook pro over the macbook but the price difference was keeping me from buying it initially. Damn those aluminum macbook. If those aluminum macbook did not exists it would have been an easy decision.

What made me buy the MBP? My girlfriend was actually trying to bargain a good deal on the Macbook Pro and the sales lady gave us one. Rules of bargaining. If you bargain and they gave it at the price you wanted, you must buy. Besides, this is my first time to splurge for myself. I pushed uncle Scrooge this time around(but now he is haunting me).

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I did have some trouble setting this thing up. I replaced the hard drive and I don’t have a torx 6 screwdriver. I had to borrow from my cousin.  I bought my mac on a Saturday and was able to install the hard drive on Tuesday. Talk about wasted time.

The biggest problem I had was transferring my files. My external hdd is formatted in ext3(linux file system) and OS X cannot mount it. Doing it(mounting an ext drive)  in windows is much easier. 

*Update: I used the original hard drive and formatted it to fat32(using GParted). OS X can’t still mount it. I used OS X’s Disc Utility to format it. It worked. OS X is a pain sometimes…

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One of the few reasons that I don’t want to buy an MBP is that I will buy accessories for it. Spending does not stop from buying the laptop alone.  I already bought a bigger hard drive(WD 500Gb) for it, Monde Palm Guard and Monde Clear Case. My girlfriend(thanks bebe!) even bought me a Zephyr cooler(also by Monde). 

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Arbalest is the arm slave(mech) of Sagara Sousuke in Full Metal Panic.