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I bought a new computer Saturday. I really needed one bad. The g has stopped working on my thinkpad. I used to have expensive laptops but they all got old. Now I get free laptops from a friend in the industry but they are bargain basement school computers and chromebooks and don't really cut the mustard.

I work hard, am always on the road and need something with a backlit keyboard. Is that too much to ask? 

I really never buy anything for myself except really good food and choice beef. In fact I no longer have a suede coat, I left mine in the van between shows, to my wife's consternation, and a mouse ate a hole out of the back.

They are really expensive, probably won't be replacing that one anytime soon.

Anyway, I drove to the Apple Store in Temecula on Saturday and splurged on a new 14" MacBook Pro M5 in silver. I get a small education store discount on account of my curriculum writing for the college.

I bought Leslie the M4 model last year and she likes it, the last MacBookpro having bit the dust.

Anyway I tossed and turned all Saturday night, worrying about my extravagant purchase. Was it going to be too heavy, did I really need all that computing power?

You see I do most of my photo processing from my desktop, I don't need a beast on the road or on the couch, I need something comfortable and light.

So I drove back to the store yesterday and cancelled my purchase.

Bought this instead.

A new 13" MacBook Air M5 in my preferred color, starlight. I bumped up the SSD to 1tb. 10 cpu, 10 gpu. 16 gb Ram. Light as a feather.

It comes on Wednesday. I save four or five hundred dollars. Why did I do this?

Because of the weight, 2.7 lbs. versus 3.3. I saw several interviews with hardcore techies that use these and don't even open their MacBook pros anymore.

I had one of these small Mac Intel laptops years ago and got used to it really quickly. Now with Apple Silicon, they scream.

My only hesitation was the lack of a fan and the passive cooling system. But I think that it will do exceedingly well for the tasks I have planned for it, not doing any heavy coding or graphics work.

It will be great to have a nice laptop again.