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Feb. 14th, 2008 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bronwynrhNot that I'm going to get one anytime soon, but I'm itching for a new computer. The Inspiron I bought aways back in aught-one became my husband's work computer almost a year ago. Since then, we've been sharing* the heftier Inspiron he bought in aught-three.
I've pondered tablet PCs galore, but recently settled (hypothetically, as no purchases have been made) for a more sensible Dell D630. I planned to run XP when I had to and Ubuntu the rest of the time, to liberate myself from Microsoft and avoid like the plague the behemoth that is Vista.
Today though, for no reason I can discern, I'm looking at returning to the Apple fold. I have a long history with Mac, you see. The then eye-catching Powerbook 145 was my constant companion at boarding school, and signified my graduation from the Apple IIc of my childhood. A Performa carried me through college until it became too impractical for my mobile grad school needs, prompting my ibook purchase - a blueberry ibook that committed suicide two weeks before my grad school preliminary exam. It is worth noting that the Performa, apparently depressed over its demotion to Mom and Dad's Secondary Computer also committed suicide shortly thereafter. Embittered and angry, I switched to PC and the previously noted Dell Inspiron 4100 of aught-one.
A Dell desktop graced my cubicle in Iowa and I write to you now from an Optiplex here at work.
Why the sudden Apple urge? I don't understand it. What do you think? Should I, when the money gods smile on me again, jump back to Apple? Is the OS switching as seamless and simple as Apple promises it to be?
* by which I mean I have a user profile. The thing isn't configured to my computing style, so I don't use it for much more than surfing with Firefox and photo editing in Picasa. It's also painfully slow. Using someone else's computer is like using someone else's car - workable, but uncomfortable.
I've pondered tablet PCs galore, but recently settled (hypothetically, as no purchases have been made) for a more sensible Dell D630. I planned to run XP when I had to and Ubuntu the rest of the time, to liberate myself from Microsoft and avoid like the plague the behemoth that is Vista.
Today though, for no reason I can discern, I'm looking at returning to the Apple fold. I have a long history with Mac, you see. The then eye-catching Powerbook 145 was my constant companion at boarding school, and signified my graduation from the Apple IIc of my childhood. A Performa carried me through college until it became too impractical for my mobile grad school needs, prompting my ibook purchase - a blueberry ibook that committed suicide two weeks before my grad school preliminary exam. It is worth noting that the Performa, apparently depressed over its demotion to Mom and Dad's Secondary Computer also committed suicide shortly thereafter. Embittered and angry, I switched to PC and the previously noted Dell Inspiron 4100 of aught-one.
A Dell desktop graced my cubicle in Iowa and I write to you now from an Optiplex here at work.
Why the sudden Apple urge? I don't understand it. What do you think? Should I, when the money gods smile on me again, jump back to Apple? Is the OS switching as seamless and simple as Apple promises it to be?
* by which I mean I have a user profile. The thing isn't configured to my computing style, so I don't use it for much more than surfing with Firefox and photo editing in Picasa. It's also painfully slow. Using someone else's computer is like using someone else's car - workable, but uncomfortable.
