Mystery Tweets. Cap.2: "Cuba entertain me, please"

By the time you reading this post (if you are reading it on Monday 28^th of February 2011), I'll be crossing the Atlantic Ocean direction to Cuba.

Do you know when you don't plan a holiday and it just happen? Then, this it is for Charles and I.

A few months ago we went out with some friends. Some of them recently visited Mexico, others Panama and some others Dominican Republic. They told us it was a very pretty place to walk around and experience new feelings that here, in the UK, could ever sense even in a Latin Club, where in that moment we were having a drink. All nigh long, conversations flew in that direction. Mexico is “spicingly” attractive, Panama is “unlockedly” open and Dominican Republic as the great devotes of the everyday “Saint Sunday”. Charles and I really were green of envy. We also wanted to let ours hair down too!

Then, when we got home, we didn't wait a second. It was the fastest move I ever seen in my whole life. The MacBook Pro went as fast as we barely picked it at the flight. Luckily the sofa was next to the “flying Mac”. I also picked our beloved terrestrial globe and spun it until Latin America appeared on top.

– Why not Cuba? None of them have visited yet!

– You said it. Why not Cuba!

– Then Cuba it is!

And that is how our planning to Cuba started.

And now, for those who have read one of my tweets I wrote a few days ago... You know why this post is quite a lot to do with the new Apple event planned for this Wednesday.

Since the first day iPad appeared I just put more and more attention to this attractive new wave gadget, and since I am a second though technology woman (meaning I wait for second generation to come to buy it), you'll know why I'll be so desperate on Wednesday. We will be in Cuba until Saturday! This week is supposed to be a technology relax. However, how I could be relaxed when the gadget I have been waiting for more than a half a year is being released in that precisely week!?

Yes, indeed. I'll try not to think about it and enjoy my stay there. Wish me luck!!

Apple Sneak Peek (October 20th)

Seriously? Is that all? I don't know, but when Apple plans to do a Keynote, even if it is not the "big one" in June, I think that Apple has to make a huge improvement on their products. Every time, after I watch one of those Sneak Peek, I am really excited. This time, however, after watching it, I wasn't. The excitement that came to me when I have heard about this October Keynote it came deeply down, and all my positive feelings about getting a new product or at least have a big leap in my Mac software were diseased.

- About the new MacBook Air... Well, all right, it is a netbook but without CD slot... I have the iPad, I have a MacBook Pro, where's the deal?
- About Facetime for Mac... Well, all right, it can only run in Mac OS X Snow Leaopard... Oh, darn! I have Mac OS X Leopard in all my Macbooks... "Great"!

Further information from the Sneak Peek, click here.



Although I have said all of this above, I though that maybe we are pushing too much Apple Inc. to impress us in a short period of time. I believe that every company has to make the best effort to improve their products. However, that doesn't mean that we have to wait for them so quick that we have no time to know the evolution of the previous one. With all that, I want to share that Apple Inc. is one of the best technology companies in the world. They had won this definition because they really work hard, and we are, testing their products, helping them to know what is the best technology for us. But it is not a help making them rush out, because science is a matter of time, work and cooperation, not a bunch of critics that goes nowhere but making the main definition of evolution empty.

So, for that matter, I try to write what I feel in the way that actually can not hurt the one or the what I am criticising.

Un MacBook "infrausado"

Hoy me han roto el corazón...

Mi hermana está con mi madre en la cocina junto con mi padre, que está leyendo el periódico en la encimera espiando al filo agudo de qué hará Dork, el perro de la familia, cuando mi hermana y mi madre acaben de terminar la comida para celebrar el domingo de pascua. Paso la cocina por la otra puerta y antes de entrar en la sala de estar oigo ese sencillo, melódico e inconfundible sonido de un MacBook encendiéndose.

Veo a la novia de mi hermano y mi hermano sentados en el sofá y les pregunto: “Un MacBook?”. Sarah me mira sorprendida y no me contesta verbalmente, sino con sólo un gesto señala la rotundidad de la cuestión.
Me acerco para ver cómo ha personalizado su desktop y me pregunta si tendría el password para poner en marcha el Wi-Fi. Voy a buscar la clave y le tecleo. No obstante me siento extraña tocando ese Apple, no me siento confortable. A raíz de esa sensación le pronuncio - Es de hace menos de un año, verdad? Van finísimos! - Como si le hablara de un vulgar ordenador portátil me responde mímicamente un “bueno” y pronuncia: “No lo uso demasiado”.

En ese momento el papel que tenía sujetado, el cual contiene la clave del Wi-Fi, se estruja. Fue acto reflejo de coyuntura muscular. Un MacBook nuevo de hace menos de un año sin usarse, ¡qué barbaridad! ¿Sin exprimirlo al máximo, ni hacerlo rendir a lo más alto? ¡Qué desperdicio! Luego pienso y me tranquilizo diciendo que bueno al menos, y supongo que, la configuración será personalizada a su gusto, ¡tendrá uso del iTunes, Safari o el PhotoBooth!. Ese preciso instante me pregunta cosas básicas sobre él y me desvanezco, cuál momento el iPhone que sostengo cae conmigo en el butacón más cercano a la pareja y al “infrautilizado” MacBook. Me sudan las manos, siento el corazón que late con menos fuerza...

Finalmente para rematar la situación me dice que como no lo va utilizar demasiado tampoco necesita saber de nada, a menos que yo le enseñe. El corazón me da un vuelco y la primera reacción es: Primer paso importante que has hecho, ¡acudir a ayuda! - e interiorizo: - ¡en caso de emergencia, medidas drásticas!

Segundos después, Sarah y yo (más yo que ella) estábamos entusiasmadas en introducirnos en la personalización básica de su MacBook. Ahora el dock ya no parecía un frito de churrería.