Rachel, you can stop reading now.
I’ve been working with our family friend Judy to set her up with a new computer. We’ve been telling her for years that she needs to dump her pokey old Windows laptop and come on up to the Mac, but she only recently broke down. Her budget for the upgrade enabled her to go with one of Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops, which we’ll outfit with a 1GB RAM upgrade and a new Canon PIXMA MP500 printer. I got an e-mail from Apple this past weekend letting me know that the computer has shipped. When it arrives at the house this week, I’ll install some apps for her and get the printer drivers installed. I’m looking forward to playing with Apple’s latest and greatest.
One major disappointment has been the Canon printer. It prints beautifully, but it doesn’t support network printing. I spent a good part of yesterday futzing around trying to print to it via samba from my iBook, with only limited success. I’ve since learned that Brother is the only company out there that provides CUPS drivers with its printers. Shows how much I know.
I suppose I’ll be getting some pictures of the new unit once I get it unpacked, just to have around for motivation.