A quiet observer

It is now just before midnight and I have changed this blip picture after looking again at my earlier image. Just before that a big moth had flown in the window and over my head as I was checking my blip journal and I tried to photograph it in the gloom, rather unsuccessfully. However I spotted this small carved wooden pencil holder propped up rather forlornly on a high shelf close to where the moth finally came to rest for the evening. Its colours and shapes are much more interesting. I am leaving the rest of story here as it is a significant day which it recounts.



............... The web page said the delivery would come late this afternoon but a knock at the door just after I had finished hoovering the house brought what I have been waiting for. I went a bit mad a few days ago when I saw a very good deal on offer on a website and after a period of indecision I rang to check the specific details, and then ended up buying it.

My current computer is still working perfectly, but is just showing its age, and can't easily be upgraded. It certainly can't be speeded up and its display is relatively primitive compared to this new machine.

Opening the box of any Apple product is always an event, as I love the attention to detail with each new iteration of their product packaging. I have been buying Apple computers since 1991 and have had at least seven of them, as well as various iPods, and have helped clients to buy many other bits of kit. I have kept some of the odd bits of packaging as well as the free logos they supplied as transfers for old times sake. Each product has its own style of packaging becoming increasingly minimal over the years.

Today's grand unboxing made me laugh yet again when I found the little black package which when opened says 'Hello' and contains just the smallest folded leaflet I have yet seen to show users how to get started. As I have bought the machine primarily to use for photography, primarily to allow me to use the latest version of the 'Aperture' software, I thought I would record the moment and blip it.

I miss the large screen size already so will probably end up using a separate screen in due course. But the processing is now instantaneous and the Retina screen images look gorgeous. I am also pleased to find the weight of a 15" laptop is much less than my first 12" Powerbook which I bought 11 years ago. It isn't noisy at all, no sound of cooling fans blasting away, and in fact I can't feel any heat at all yet. The speakers sound very good and are reasonably loud. All in all I think I am going to be very pleased!