I’ll admit it. After seeing Ubuntu running on Glyph’s MacBook, I want one. I would be a lot happier about this deep-seated consumerist desire if they had a full keyboard, like Lenovo’s ThinkPad line, but I want one anyways.

Here in Washington DC, I realized that I’d forgotten the power cable to my laptop. Curious, because I also forgot my power charger the last time I came here (for PyCon 2005). Since I already had to go to the mall for clean socks, I considered buying a universal adapter (again, something I did the last time I was in town). Instead I stopped by the Apple store, and I almost gave in; it would mean I’d spend my weekend of vacation in Starbucks playing with a new laptop, and I’d have to catch up with friends some other time. I probably would have, if not for Mactactic.

The site is awesome. I found it Googling “It predicts release schedules and tells you how long it’s likely to be before Apple releases the next iteration of some project. They estimate another month before the next version of MacBook, and I decided (to the joy of my checking account) that I can wait that long.