Friday eve - my macbook harddrive died on me. I had spent ages getting my machine into work state.

This is one week into my contract - and I need a decent work environment.

a new work machine:

I went down to the apple store and bought a new 15" mackbook pro.  I am now sitting in the apple store using their fast internet connection to download all the software I need including vmware fusion, virtual machines, firefox, firefox plugins, thunderbird, lightning, adium, skype - much faster than the connection at home.

I am a bit worried about the temperature of the keyboard - after a while it could be a little like typing on a hotplate - not good for the tips of your fingers.

old macbook:

I am going to but a new 2.5" stata drive - from ebuyer.co.uk and use this as a home laptop.