Well, I have been patiently waiting to buy a nice Apple laptop and finally something looked and sounded good to me - the 2.16Ghz MacBook Pro which I bought today. My first impressions: “wow this packaging is really nice”, “wow this is super fast”, and “great job Apple”. I love Apple and their products because they understand the whole user experience down to the last detail. The packaging itself is art. The lines of their products are well thought out and beautiful. There is so much effort put into the little things that it makes the product as a whole a wonderful and exciting thing of beauty. When the new PwerBooks/MacBooks came out, I was sold when I saw the MagSafe power adapter. So yes, I am quite excited. I am even more excited that it is a business expense.

I have found over the last eight or so years that my best designs actually result from mistakes or accidents when working in Photoshop. Give me a few minutes in PhotoShop and I can whip up a good design or grpahic. Give me a few hours and I am willing to bet I will choose the wrong filter, accidentally change the opacity of something and bingo...there is the finishing touch to the design/graphic I needed. This is much of the case with the new design I am working on. So when in doubt, open Photoshop and start playing around.
[tags]Photoshop, design[/tags]