Christmas meltdown

It's all too much! My hard disk on my trusty old G4 powerbook has finally given up the ghost, so I'm having to shell out for a new laptop. Settled on getting a 13" Macbook Pro, mainly because it's the cheapest (Mac) option. Got some regular illustration work to finish so I need it to do that. Unfortunately that means I've had to put construction of wonkybots etc on hold probably until the new year. Grrrrrrrrr. I'd rather have spent the money (that I haven't got anyway) on a bench drill (or perhaps a turkey and some crackers).