The portability of the MacBook Pro alone convinced me never to go back to desktop computing. There were other bonus perks, especially getting rid of my lousy Philips webcam, endearingly named ‘the spamcam,’ and the lousy webcam software. ((I grudgingly paid the shareware fee. At some point the developers decided what they were doing was so awesome that upgrading merited a second shareware fee.)) Manufactured in the age of dinosaurs (1998?), pieces were starting to fall off, the tripod was unstable, the USB jack had melted slightly, the resolution was substandard, and its output was…unpredictable.
Five years after this picture was taken, I still don’t know how it managed to generate that. Or perhaps I should say, I still don’t know how I did that without going blind.
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