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I Miss My iPod Nano | The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:36:36 +0000

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My Going Away Party | The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:36:13 +0000

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By: Aamer

Aamer — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:10:22 +0000

You make me wanna blog, i think i should get back to it, i’ll love it.

Thank you Gaurav, all the best for your trip

By: Kaustav Bhattacharya

Kaustav Bhattacharya — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:52:32 +0000

MBP or a MB are amazing machines. The have a MBP and the beefier graphics card really helps with video editing and 3D graphics, but the basic MB is excellent. If you put 4GB RAM in to it and get a 250GB hard disk, you can throw in a copy of VMWare Fusion for Mac and run Windows Vista (for that all important cross browser and platform testing you’ll need to do *cough* of course) and also run Ubuntu, like I do Sweeeeet!

By: Aditya R

Aditya R — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:57:27 +0000

Fair enough mate. I bought a mac book (13.3 inch, 4GB RAM, 2.4 Ghz) and had friends of mine contribute $400 of the $1500 [b’day gift you see].

Who knows, with your off consumption experiment your friends could even buy you a Pro. Now that would be perfect.

By: Shripriya

Shripriya — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:32:15 +0000

Lol. Ok, I can give you that. Settling for a basic Mac is asceticism. I’ll tell you this though - even the 15MBP is heavy as heck. It barely qualifies as a laptop - I struggle when I have to lug it around constantly. The 17 is a lot worse. So, stick with the 15 or better yet just a Macbook. Now THAT would be truly committed to your goal

By: wnwek

wnwek — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:49:16 +0000

If I were you, I would go for Ubuntu, and pay only for the hardware. But then, you are not me. You would be in good company if you do decide to go for Ubuntu.

By: Gaurav Mishra

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:44:01 +0000

@Shripriya/ Aditya: Well, I have only configured it, not bought it, so no rules are broken (yet). Except that, even thinking of sin is sinful etc.

I think I’ll end up buying a 15″ MacBook Pro without some of the bells and whistles. It will still set me back by about $2000, but compared to the dream machine I had earlier configured, it would be asceticism itself.

By: Aditya R

Aditya R — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:03:25 +0000

Sorry mate, you’ve actually broken your commandment. You invested in a luxury item which ever way you look at it. (Of course you could justify it by saying it’s a necessity)
But shelling out 5k + is luxury spending in my opinion, even here in the US.

Eating food is a necessity, but you wouldn’t eat at a 5 star would you because you are off consumption?

Buying a Macbook Pro with that sort of config amounts to that.

Sorry to say this, but in my eyes, you have broken your commandment.