I need a mac book pro.

After talking with Chris Allen forever about it, I again approached the idea and got some great feedback from some PC converts like Tink and Keith.

I was really excited, picked out my MBP and…found out I can’t buy if for another 3-4 months and even then, it’s not looking good. I sold my original G4 mac to pay taxes way back when. I knew I’d never get it back!

My poor wife, she does a great job at managing our finances, so I don’t even mess with it – if she says we can’t do it, then I listen.

I was going to wait it out for a while longer. Then I got a bug report on the Papervision3D component involving it running on OSX – ugh!! When I was teaching in LA, John Olson was cool enough to let me borrow his mac at the hotel to fix bugs for the next day for the class – he truly saved me on that one. And I think at that moment, I knew I had to seriously consider getting one.

So, I figured, why not start the “get John a Mac Book Pro” initiative. Someone had started a similar initiative for Nicolas Cannasse a while back and that rocked to see people rally around to make that happen! So, I thought why not try it again? If any of the projects that I’ve worked on have helped out, maybe this could happen sooner rather than later? Maybe Xray saved you some time? Or maybe, Papervision3D’s your new crack habit? Or maybe Red5 made you’re guitar sing midi to flash?

To be specific: This is what I’m hoping for:

Specifications
Mac Book Pro 15" -
* 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
* 160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm
* SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* MacBook Pro 15-inch Glossy Widescreen Display
* MagSafe Airline Adapter
* Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English

Bottom line is: I need $2708.00 plus tax for a grand total of $2941.41 to get the configuration above. Any and all help is MUCH appreciated.

All done!!  We now have enough for the Mac Book Pro!!  YOU GUYS ROCK!!

It'd be a huge help to say the least. I feel cheesy for asking to be honest, so if this offends you in someway, I apologize.

Thanks very much for helping ($3162.41)!

• Joan Llenas Maso
• Eric-Paul Lecluse
• * côdeazur brasil
• Tianzhen Lin
• Ryan Taylor
• ** John Olson
• Robert M. Hall II
• * Zarate
• Sönke Rohde
• * Dominick and Chris at Infrared5
• Keith Peters
• ** Jens Brynildsen
• Brian Deitte
• Russell Sprague
• Maarten van de Voorde
• Terry May
• * Jim Armstrong
• Zeh Fernando
• Jake Hawkes
• Andreas Weber
• * Mark Carolin
• Michael Lyda
• Andrew Langley
• Oscar Trelles
• Campbell Anderson
• ** Ivan Todorov - Blitz Agency
• * Ethan a Estes
• Jarrad Hope
• * Sam Agesilas!
• Joachim Bauch - Yay!
• Burak KALAYCI
• Ryan Christensen
• * Didier Brun & Thibault Imbert - ByteArray.org!

• ** Mika for FlashDevelop Project
• David Coletta
• marco secchi
• Luke Hubbard - Codegent
• Robert Sköld
• * Dominik Willers
• * iiley - AsWing Project
• Mario Klingemann!
• Duncan Reid
• * Robert Patrick Gutlich
• Richard Mason
• * CARLOS ULLOA - Papervision3D
• ** BayInteractive Inc
• Alexandru Petrescu
• JIM CHENG
• * Matthew Fabb
• * FlashGuru.co.uk - Guy Watson
• Surrey Films Ltd
• * Andrew Keegan
• ** Christine Sanders! \m/
• ** Daniel Cluff
• ** Paulo Fierro (there are 2 types of people in the world..those that understand binary, and those that don't
• * Burak KALAYCI (he gets a star for dontating 2x's!)
• Randy Troppmann
• * Tim Brady \m/
• * Martin Wood
• * Arnaud Levy
• * Tom Carden
• Robert Shearing
• LANNY MCNIE !!
• *** Ted Patrick - Adobe

* = $50 or more
** = $100 or more
*** = $500
- thanks VERY much guys!

( if you're names not highlighted, I'm sorry about that, I'm trying to find links to people's names - just email me with yours if it's not highlighted -thanks!)