iFun iFungi

I finally made it up to the Apple store on Regent Street on Saturday, dragging a few friends in tow. Unfortunately I hadn’t considered the mass of students and backpackers using the shop as a free internet cafe, and consequently couldn’t get anywhere near the iBooks. After spending a while trying (and failing) to justify the £2099 price tag of the 30″ Apple Cinema Display to myself, we ended up retiring to a nearby bar for wine and chips.

A wonderfully out-of-it evening ensued, starting off by watching the brilliant Elf, before spending hours listening to FSOL’s Lifeforms and Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden (enough said?). By the early hours of Sunday morning we were ready for Napoleon Dynamite, (which I’d not seen before, and turned out to be so wrong, and so, so funny) and genépi. The night culminated with us compelled to eat chicken soup at 5.30am after watching the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld.

Also worthy of a mention is the lovely Sunday lunch Simon and I had at Le Chardon in East Dulwich the following day. The tuna steak is highly recommended.

Anyhow, I eventually managed to get my hands on a 12″ iBook this afternoon after Rob and I had had our usual post-meeting fry up in Soho. And I have to say I was impressed - it was nice and solid, and had no trouble handling the things I asked it to do in Photoshop. The keyboard and display didn’t feel too cramped, which was my main concern, so I think I’ll definitely get one very soon - with the larger hard drive and some extra RAM from Crucial. We also had a play with the Mac Mini, which really is a nice bit of kit, even if, as I discovered inadvertently, the power lead does come out quite easily.

So with my mind made up, I’m now wondering about a bag or case for my forthcoming 12″ iBook. I’m rather taken with Crumpler’s range - their bags look suitably cool, don’t shout “Mug me!”, and more importantly they’ve got funny names: Mac Bain (my favourite), The 12″ Gimp, Very Busy Man and Cheesey Disco. Crumpler’s site is a particularly mad Flash experience too. Any iBook bag/case feedback welcomed though.

Leave a Reply