While I was with my family Christmas week, my brother-in-law pointed out just how fortunate (read: spoiled) I was to have been given a brand new MacBook at age 14. It was the only model year an aluminum-bodied Apple machine ever bore the name "MacBook" as opposed to "MacBook Pro" and the only said machine to have a removable battery, which - in my case - certainly encouraged some absurd behavior. Over the course of