As of around midday today I have been the proud owner of a sparkly new Macbook Pro and an equally sparkly new iPod nano (bright pink of course … are there other colours?).

I was very dedicated and didn’t even unpack it for at least an hour or so before I had a few other tasks out of the way. This is mostly because I was fully anticipating spending much of the next few days migrating things, reinstalling things, digging out ancient registration numbers and encountering moments of intense panic as things went wrong.

But I forgot one simple little thing … this is a Mac. Such things are just not part of my reality anymore. Moments into the process of first starting up the new machine I clicked on a button to say I wanted to migrate from my old Mac … I then hooked the two machines up with a cable … and it was all sorted out for me. Yes, it did take an hour or so to move everything across, but then there was about 50gb worth of data.

And then I finished the set up on the new Mac … and everything is here in perfect working order exactly as on my old machine without me needing to lift a finger to do anything further.

Lovely.

And now it’s all set up and functioning dreamily … and I just need to figure out what to do with the old one. It’s incredibly faster and therefore happier than my old Powerbook - which was the only major problem with it. It’s also quite a bit less worn out looking, but other than that it looks almost identical.

Now I’m trying to get my head around my iPod and how to organise it. But that shouldn’t take too long. And then life will be complete … or something.

PS. Are you paying attention, Meshell? I wonder if this means I’m officially stalking you now!