Hehe...
I did the same thing, except becuase I am a college student, my first MBP (the one I have posted every single post from), I stayed up all hours of the night waiting for it. So, basically at 7pm my time when it left alaska for indy, I was told by my friend that it was overnighted basically from alaska unless it is a weekend. So, being as I did not believe that, I literally stayed up all night tracking the laptop.
I watched it on flytecomm fly from alaksa to indy, then watched it sit in indy at customs hoping it made the flight to oakland so a drive in monterey could pick it up around 6am my time, get it on a truck by 730 in monterey and too my doorstep by 1030. Well, it happend.
It barley made it. Alaska to Indy 7am departure, arrived at 12pm mytime??? Then through customs... oohh boy this will take awhile... 3am my time rolls around, i see it has left Indy on the way to oakland... I am way stoked! I then decide to take a nap as I am positive it's going to arrive... 6am rolls around and I get up from my nap. I see it has already landed in oakland and is on a truck for monterey! yay! I spent the next four hours waiting in anticitipation, on my PC computers, reading everything about the macbook pro...
then i tracked it around 730 to see that it was in monterey, and on a truck for delievery... my pulse raced as I awaitied the fedex driver. 11am now rolls around, and I am a little upset. They said 10:30... I don't know why they do that to people. Be honest
anyways... 11:14 the fed ex VAN gets there, and walks it to my doorstep. I never signed for a package so fast in my life.
Anyways, that's how excited I was for my first macbook pro... But take into account I had a performa 6400/200mhz when i was in the 4th grade. when i turned 11 i installed debian and slackware on two seperate systems i had. even since then i became a bsd/unix/linux guru and have loved it. When OS X went to a BSD KERNEL, i freaked out. Basically, it was three years of waiting for the laptop, then the chance for me to get one came, and I have never been more excited in my life. It was perfect. I had my last final Wednseday, the laptop came Friday. I had about 10 days (straight) to spend on the system... I know, it's terrible.
That was MBP 2.0 80 gig 5400 1 gig ram 128 vram
replacement is a
MBP 2.16 100 gig 7200 2gig ram 256 vram
well 1 gig from apple, two gig's waiting for it when it arrives.
Don't know why I was so excited over the replacement order. Just always fun to get new stuff. Sorry if that was long and I rambled
