As much as I love my MacBook Pro, I could not help but feel a pang of annoyance when I read this morning that Apple had finally released MacBook Pro notebooks with Intel's latest-and-greatest Core 2 Duo processors. After all, I only purchased my MacBook Pro about a month ago. But Apple did not stop with the processor. The new MacBook Pros further humiliate me by featuring twice as much memory, a 120 GB hard disk, FireWire 800, and an improved optical drive that can burn dual-layer DVD disks.

My computer still performs quite speedily, regardless of improvements made in Apple's latest offering. At the same time, however, I could have purchased a much faster computer for the exact same sum of money, had I waited just a few weeks longer to replace my dying PowerBook.

Thanks obsolescence!