December 2007 Archives

Dear Santa...

I am not a big Apple fangirl. But in the past year my life has gone from 90% PC to 100% Apple (mostly because of work). And although it hasn't been a particularly painful conversion, there are some things that I really, really wish Santa would shove down Steve Jobs' throat in order to make my life a little less frustrating.

1) A docking station for laptops. Jesus F. Christ, Apple, how long is it going to take you to figure this one out? I have to plug in 6 different cords every day when I get to work and it really pisses me off. Especially because the damn monitor connector takes 10 minutes to align and attach.

2) A patch to Leopard that will let me navigate up out of network folders when I directly connect to a subfolder. In Tiger, all I had to do was open the little three line pulldown and select the parent folder, but now it only lists the subfolder and the computer name. Maybe I'm just stupid (very possible), but I can't for the life of me find any other way to go *up*.

3) A MacBook tablet. I used a Wacom art tablet in the 90s when I worked for IBM and became a pen addict. I've been using a tiny 4X6 pad instead of a mouse for about 7 years now. But to get immediate visual feedback (so I could, you know, actually draw), I would have to sink around $2000 into one of Wacom's tablet monitors, which I would then have to plug into my laptop (sort of defeating the concept of portability). The only portable tablet computers out there are PCs and are 12 inches wide, *and* cost almost $2000. And since all my graphics programs are Mac that is just not going to work for me. I am seriously considering trying to hook this Wiimote mod into my Mac as a temporary solution. The Apple iPhone has proved that Apple has the technology, and the rumors of a tablet have been floating for over TWO YEARS. Why, oh why, can't I have my MacBook tablet? *sniff*

Is that too much to ask for? I don't want to be greedy, Santa, but may I remind you that my childhood xmases were a bit meager (I mean, 18 years of socks was bad enough, but couldn't you at least have wrapped them? or put on a bow?). And you know I never get birthday presents because everyone is too distracted by the holidays. So if you could just give Steve Jobs a friendly little visit, Futurama-style, and let him know what I'm looking for in 2008, I would really appreciate it.