The Singaporean Gamer

That’s right. After so many years of assembling my own PC, I now am in possession of the white polycarbonate unibody MacBook 13″, which was released on October 20th 2009.

(Ok, that’s not mine. It’s just a random pic from Google Images. I can’t for the life of me, take a good picture of my own MacBook.)

Been wanting one since I saw the PowerBook G4, the precursor to the MacBook Pro line, displayed at the local IT store on my university campus. Of course, it costs about S$4000++ back then in 2004 if I recall correctly. My interest waned once I realised I could never, ever afford one. i was also getting better at customizing Windows XP with all the nice little applications, so to re-learn everything became a huge burden. I was also very much interested in PC gaming, and the Mac at the time, with its minuscule market share, didn’t have that many games for the platform.

Fast forward to 2009, this particular generation of MacBook costs S$1600 at the local Apple online store. It is much more powerful than the PowerBook G4 I was drooling over 5 years ago. Apple’s marketshare has risen leaps and bounds, but those hot, hyped up titles are still ignoring the OSX platform. However, there are more indie games now, and most of which do have Mac ports of their awesome games, which is fine anyway. I don’t think the 9400M GPU could handle too graphically-intensive games anyway.

I have played around with a few Linux distros and also managed to try out OSX previously, so it wasn’t too much of a culture shock. My brain is a mixture of Unix and Windows commands, so Cygwin is a must on my Windows PC. OS agnosticism is good for you!

Tags: Macbook

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