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If all goes right (cross fingers), I'll be getting an Apple Macbook tonight. So, that's significant for a number of reasons:
That last point is the exciting one. I have a Plan.
Until now, I've been a many-computer person. It's practically been a defining feature of who I was. Go into my house, and there are computers everywhere. An old laptop there, a tower case there, etc. When I moved out a few weeks ago, I had 8 computers, not counting things like the Tandy 102 or palmtops.
The Plan is this: get rid of everything. Just use the Macbook. Radical, eh?
The rationale is that in the last two years, I've used a computer for the following tasks:
Well, all those things are easy to do with a Mac. In fact, the Mac excels at some of them, while some of those tasks are so lightweight as to be simple for even a generations-old computer such as I use.
The key breakthrough was realizing that where before I thought I'd need Windows to run the audio editing software I had (which is almost the only reason I still have a Windows machine at all), actually I could do it on a Mac too. And hey, a Mac is essentially a Unix machine (my preference is to use Linux for most things). So, a Mac would actually make a decent computer for most of the stuff I want to do.
Then I started looking around, and found a great deal (which turned out to be so great it didn't exist, but that's the "joy" of Craigslist, I guess). Then I found another great deal, and spent my monies, and here I am. (Since I started writing this, I have concluded the purchase of my new Macbook, and am using it to type this even now!)
I guess the next step is to get all the stuff I care about off the myriad computers I have lying around, and get rid of them! Hooray for simplification!
Posted at 19:53 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater