Delaying the Upgrade
When I joined my current company the hiring boss asked me what computer he should buy for me and I said, "nothing yet. Next week is WWDC and I'll be they are going to announce something cool." It did not dissapoint as they announced the first retina computer and he got me a maxed out Retina MacBook Pro. That good and faithful servant lasted with me for four and half years and then finally gave out when it started to kernel panic everytime it swapped from the intergrated GPU to the discrete GPU. Funny thing about that? It happened precisely two months after Apple's GPU recall ended for that machine. When my work computer died, I had a week where I exclusively used my iPad Mini to do my job and it worked pretty darn well. The most impressive thing I think I was doing is that every day I had to download a 80MB text file from SFTP, run some regex search/replace on it, and then upload the processed file to another SFTP. Holy moly, Coda for iPad did that with very few i...