Amazing Technology - Time to look away

I am an admitted geek.  I love technology, love what it can do for me -furthermore, I love technology done right.  My Macbook is almost always on and is one of the few pieces of technology that I can honestly say has changed my life for the better.  My iPod touch holds my lesson plans, about a thousand contacts, my calendar, a GTD system, my budget, a dozen books, and solitaire in my pocket all the time.  My iMac makes my office look good - and is an amazing computer to boot.  

So you can imagine that I was a little interested in Apple's unavailing of the new MacBook's the other day.  I have read the blogs and watched the videos and even lusted a little bit.  They really are beautiful machines, and they address so many of the flaws of the current model.  It was want at first sight.

Then I thought about it.  I have a perfectly functional laptop, it is no slower today than when I purchased it almost three years ago.  Even with my 1gb of ram it breezes through my photoshop work.  I even keep Photoshop and Indesign open at the same time with no problem.  

Which brings me to another recently released piece of technology that I won't even be looking at, and that is the new Creative Suite from Adobe.  When Adobe came out with CS3 I had a copy of (slow) CS2 on my computer.  Using CS3 felt so, good.  I was extremely pleased when my church bought a copy and I got it on my computer.  

But I have no desire to even look at CS4.  I still can't get over how well CS3 works for me, why would I want CS4.  I am determined not to even download the free demo.

That being said there is a piece of software I can see myself getting.  That is the new Bento 2 from Apple.  I love iWork and it has totally met (exceeded) my pretty basic needs, but the one thing it left out was a database.  The $299 filemaker pro would be nice, but the price tag made it a non-option.  I downloaded the trial of the first Bento and liked it, but couldn't justify spending $50 on it.  Bento2 on the other hand will fulfill quite a few needs that my ever changing job creates; like how to keep track of all of the people visiting my sunday school class, or how to plan the events I have coming up.  I really like what they have done with this new version of the program, and can justify spending some money on it.

But as far as all other things coming out, I am completely content with what I have, and that just may be more beautiful then even the new MacBooks.