Well, I actually did it last night. In 7 to 10 days, my new MBP should ship, and 2 days after that, it should be in my gooey little hands. For those curious:
2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM-2×1GB
100GB Serial ATA Drive@7200rpm
SuperDrive 8X
17″ Widescreen Display
No Modem
I opted for the smaller hard drive because you get 7200rpm’s out of it (rather than 5400 @ 160GB or 4200 @ 200GB). I also opted for the regular display, rather than the glossy. My Inspiron has a glossy screen, and while it does look quite crisp and clear in darker areas, as soon as there’s any light around you, it all goes to hell.
If you were wondering, with my lousy $200 educational discount, I got the whole thing, including tax and shipping (I opted for 2-day, regular ground was free), the price came to $2,650.20.
I didn’t get the extended AppleCare plan. At my current rate, I’m using laptops for about 8 months, so the 1-year warranty that comes with it should be enough for me. If I’m still heavily using the MBP by the time a year is up, I’ll throw out the couple hundred extra to extend the warranty.
Just saw earlier today that Apple announced their new Mac Book Pro line with an Intel Core 2 Duo chip. Sold.
The one I priced out was just over $3,000… Pay day is on Halloween, so I’ve just got to make sure I pay off my credit card before I slap a new big charge on it.
Sweet sweet Apple, how I love thee…
That’s it. I’ve finally told K2 where it can go… I just can’t take the quirks and bugs anymore, no matter how many incredibly cool features it offers (like those amazing K2 Modules… If only Automattic Widgets were that insanely cool!). I swear, if my modules disappeared one more time at random, I might have totally lost it and gone out hunting down random K2 developers…
If the K2 devs are out there somewhere, please, work on the quality and reliability of your code, will ya? I’d love to come back, but your recent releases have gone so far down hill I don’t even want to talk about it…
Last night in #wordpress, someone asked for my URL, then reported that it didn’t work… I quickly verified that they were in fact correct. Trying to load my blog returned absolutely nothing. I was med’d up, so I really didn’t care at that point. This morning, however, I took a closer look at what was going on.
Looks like the Clutter-Free plugin went a little overboard. While trying to login, I got notifications about headers already being sent by the Clutter-Free plugin. After deleting the plugin (thereby deactivating it), it looks like everything’s working perfectly.
I’m going to assume something besides the mentioned DIV ID’s in the admin panel changes from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5, but somehow I don’t think anything that major would change in a simple bug-fix release. In any case, be on the lookout for weird behavior if you give Clutter-Free a try…
Sidebar Modules Kick Widget Ass
I was complaining about K2 in #wordpress earlier, when Shorty told me to try out the self-contained plugin that gives you the same functionality as K2 Modules.
I jumped at the idea, since anyone who’s ever used K2 Modules knows that they kick sooo much ass that Wordpress Widgets will never touch. A quick Google got me Nybble Labs’ Sidebar Modules. There are no instructions, so it was a bit of a gamble getting things working. Happily, I found that it wasn’t tough at all.
Sidebar Modules use the same hooks that the Automattic Widgets do, so there are no additional changes that need to be made to your theme for them to work. Just disable Automattic Widgets, enable Sidebar Modules, and you’re good to go. It even supports the custom widgets plugin I wrote for an enhanced search form. Now how cool is that?
Just one more plugin to add to the list of amazingly useful Wordpress addons!