My wife sent me to a solo Valentine’s Day matinee of Deadpool. Deadpool was better than every Spider-Man film. The very best line was (paraphrasing, from memory), “As if there’s something wrong with eating before sunset, or saving money.” That line made my day.
Taking calls on my Mac
My favorite newish OS X feature at the moment is taking iPhone calls right on my Mac. I’m running — and first used this in — El Capitan (10.11.3), but I believe this was added in Yosemite. Anyway, I like it.
Hello, MacBook Pro 13″.
A couple weeks ago, I was nosing around Craigslist and found an offer for a “newer used” current-model Retina MacBook Pro 13” with a Broadwell 2.9GHz i5, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 3 years of AppleCare (expires 14 August 2018) and $99 (total waste of money) one-on-one Apple service add-on. I jumped on it. Its existing owner, Raj, said he was getting into photography and decided to get an iMac for not much more money than the MacBook Pro. For $1250 cash, I now have myself a beautiful new upgrade for my 2010-release MacBook Air, about three years earlier than planned.
As configured (Raj said this was not a refurb), this was a $2,048 model (not including the one-on-one service). I’m very happy.
I’d have preferred a quad-core i7, but the only way to get that is with a 15” model and I’m not certain I want that size. It would be okay, but it seems a bit big for me. Anyway, this was a deal I felt I could not pass up.
20 June 2016 Update: I still consider this a stupendous deal. The machine runs perfectly and I have zero complaints.