Explore Carrie Bradshaw's MacBook Pro

Like many women (and men), I'm pretty excited about the upcoming Sex and the City movie. While the show was awesome for a myriad of reasons (the humor, the fashion, the catch-phrases), what often gets overlooked is that Carrie Bradshaw was a Mac girl. From 1998 through 2004, Carrie almost always started and ended each show typing on her Mac. It makes sense; can you really imagine someone that fashion and style conscious using anything else?

In season one, she used the original Powerbook G3, if I'm not mistaken (it was either Kanga or the 3400c), but she moved up to a WallStreet and then a Pismo until the series concluded its run.

The official website for the movie has added a new feature, "Carrie Bradshaw's MacBook Pro" that allows fans to "explore" the virtual desktop of our favorite fashionista, answer trivia questions in "chat" windows with other SATC characters, based on clues found on the desktop, to unlock bonus content/videos and for a chance to win a Sex and the City movie poster.

I'll admit, the whole thing is a total novelty, but it's still kind of cool. I especially like that the default browser on the "desktop" is Camino. It's always fun to see Apple products integrated into other promotional campaigns.

(New Line Cinema, like TUAW, is ultimately part of the same media conglomerate, Time Warner).

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Source: http://www.sexandthecitymovie.com/macbook/

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Jay Hash

All the characters & Producers on that (canceled) show/movie need to die from Cancer of the Aids of the Eyes. It is such a trite piece of $#!t, it makes me furiously angry every time I'm exposed to one of the trailers. Maybe it's for the same reason I didn't like Seinfeld, but I can't stand that friggin' show. i hope it bombs at the box office...

May 22 2008 at 6:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matthew_treder

Since "myriad" is a synonym for "many," it should never be preceded by "a" or followed by "of," as in "a myriad of reasons..."

May 21 2008 at 4:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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laurahelde

definition of "myriad" from merriam-webster.com:

1 : ten thousand
2 : a great number

Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it.

May 21 2008 at 4:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brett

Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Myriad myriads of lives." This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use. In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek. The Greek word mÅ«rias, from which myriad derives, could be used as either a noun or an adjective, but the noun mÅ«rias was used in general prose and in mathematics while the adjective mÅ«rias was used only in poetry.

May 22 2008 at 5:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

zideshowbob

Hmm, it seems to be a special model. Mine has the magnetic power plug on the other side...

May 20 2008 at 5:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Toren

Agreed!! The second I saw the picture, I noticed that they used a flipped MacBook Pro image. Notice the dock, menubar, wallpaper, and superdrive. Those are the more obvious, though I did realize the ports at first.

Bad photoshoppers!! (If you even consider that Photoshop work!)

May 20 2008 at 9:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Christina Warren

nice catch! Yes, definitely one for the Bad Photoshoppers blog.

May 20 2008 at 9:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

R. Knight

I'm man enough to admit I watch SATC with my wife quite a bit. There was an entire b-plot of one episode dedicated to that fact the HD crashed on her PowerBook and she had never backed it up. Her boyfriend at the time tried to get her a new one. A Clam shell iBook as a matter of fact, and she didn't want anything to do with it. Of course the show made it seem like replacing the drive was a big deal, but she stuck it out and got her PB back with a zip if I recall to back it up.

May 20 2008 at 2:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

djjazzyjoe

camino huh>???

May 20 2008 at 2:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

KFD

If they are all so "cutting edge", shouldn't they be using the most cutting edge OS available today: Microsoft Vista! Just ask Steve Ballmer, he'll back me up. (BTW - I never let my Mac "learn" the spelling of Ballmer. It's the first step to the dark side)

May 20 2008 at 2:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lars Hoel

And when it broke, she brought her Pismo to Tekserve ...

May 20 2008 at 2:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

KFD

She should upgrade to Leopard.

May 20 2008 at 2:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Elias

I think they were all Mac users. In the later seasons, Charlotte's husband and Alexandr Petrovsky ("The Russian") have PowerBook G4s, etc.

Carrie always had older hardware, while her friends usually had the latest and greatest (at the time).

There was also the episode where her hard drive crashes and she goes to TekServe and has no backups. Her boyfriend buys her an iBook, but she doesn't want it, because she likes her old computer.

May 20 2008 at 2:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aron Trimble

You neglected to mention that Charlotte was also a Mac-using member of the "fab 4" - she had an iBook!

Additionally, Sam's office employed the use of several Macs as well.

I swear, it's my wife that watches the show.

Ps, Don't listen to the haters, Geek Chic is muy importante!

May 20 2008 at 1:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply