I’ve been wanting to get a new Macbook with more gusto for a while now. new Macbook Pros were announced on Wednesday (AU Time). I puchased it not long after. It arrived today after a small hiccup with the courier company TNT. I have the day off and I was hoping to be there when it was delivered, of course it arrived at the most inoportune time while I was in the shower and I got the normal “we missed you” card. I rang them up and the lady told me that I couldn’ pick it up till Monday, my urge to kill was rising, seemed crazy that I couldn’t pick it up on the day, and it was, I went to the depot anyway and I was able to pick it up straight away. I took it home feeling happy in my pants. I’ve been migrating data for the last hour from my old Macbook, and so far I’m loving it. The screen is great, the speakers are awesomely loud, and the new gestures, particularly the 4 finger Exposé ones are just so intuitive and will make getting things done without my logitech mouse insanely easier. I’m yet to really give it a working, gonna try some games on it, try out Windows XP running Parallels, few other things, but so far I’m wrapped.

So me and my friend Ben replaced the LCD panel of my Macbook last night, and it went pretty damn smoothly. There were some scary bits where we had to pull out plugs that didn’t look like plugs and strange plastic tidbits, but all in all, we simply followed the guide on ifixit.com and it worked quite well. AU$419 for a 120GB hard drive and a 13.3″ LCD panel, not too shabby, bought from Macfixit.com.au. Here’s some piccies.

Before

After

So, as per an earlier post, I broke the LCD panel of my beloved Macbook. At the time I was thinking, way too expensivc to replace, just buy a new Macbook. But a couple of factors have come to play since then. For one, I didn’t want my next Mac to be a Macbook, I wanted a Macbook Pro, and 2, I found a place called Macfixit Australia, who sell LCD panels for DIY install for AU$379, which is damn cheap, you can get them to install it for you for $179, but that (however small) extra fee just makes me think I might as well go buy a new one for $1449. There’s an awesome guide at ifixit.com which has a 23 page guide in replacing the panel, which is quite involved, but me and a mate were thinking we could do it, so long as we follow every single step. The only tools I need is a screwdriver, a spudger and a beer to cool my nerves. And hopefully the DIY gods smile down on me.

My God I had a big bender last night, don’t remember coming home, don’t remember a lot of things, but I did wake up to this:

Not the nicest thing to wake up to, I guess all I can do now is turn it on, get all my data off it, and eventually, go buy myself a new laptop, it’s gonna take some time though. So kiddies, when your elders tell you don’t drink, it’s bad, listen to them, or things like this can happen.