So... this is my MacBook.
Friends at work (on ya Paul and Rob) through subtle and subliminal advertising convinced me to buy one and I'll be forever grateful.

The history of this purchase is... I was looking for something to take traveling with me, that would be portable, stable, run Photoshop, and have enough storage to take multiple Gigs of images from my Canon 10D. I do a fair amount of travel and I'm an avid photographer so I needed something that would cater for all this. I was originally looking at an image viewer from Epson, however this wouldn't allow me to backup to DVD if required. Something I tend to do regardless of what they say about X-Ray screening machines. Plus I couldn't run PS.

I also looked at a tiny Dell laptop however, after checking out a MacBook owned by one of the other guys at work, I was hooked.

Down went the plastic and as they say, the rest is history.

Quick specs:
Dual core 2Ghz processor
2 Gb RAM
120Gb Hard drive
SuperDrive
Firewire/USB
Built in camera (iCam)
OS X Tiger

I mentioned stability. According to iStat Nano the longest I've had my MacBook running is 30 days 21hrs. That's with constant daily use. Try that with windows!
For PS work, I connect to a 24" Dell monitor and colour manage with a ColorVision Spyder2.

Tags: apple, OS X