My beloved iBook has well and truly kicked the bucket. It's barely even booting... I grabbed a couple important files off there (like the iCal files with all the kids' firsts and whatnot written down), and it's been put away. I can't bear to recycle it yet. :(

Since the iBook started to have problems last spring, we were looking at alternatives. New MacBooks are pricey, but awesome; on the other hand, it's more computer than I really need. We were also looking at netbooks, and realistically, I knew that's what had to happen, though I was in denial for a long time. I really did not want to go back to Windows, but the netbooks were pretty much all I needed, really, and they were 1/3 the price of a new MacBook.

Fortunately I have a wicked husband that understands the Mac cult, and he found a brand of netbook that other people have successfully put Mac OS X on. A Hackintosh, hooray!

So now I have a little HP Mini. It's alright. The screen size doesn't really bother me, and I'm getting used to the keyboard... it's slightly smaller than my old iBook, so there were a LOT of typos the first few days. It can be a little slow sometimes, but really, most of the time I don't even notice any lagging. The one biggest problem is that Wil thought it was really, definitely his computer since it was Wil-sized. That was not a fun fight getting it back from him.

Anyway, it's approximately a thousand times better than surfing on the Wii, which is what I did for a week and a half while waiting for the new computer to arrive. Gah!