I feel a disturbance in the Force....
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lagilmanLet's get one thing straight, first. I love my Dell Inspiron One. I would never be parted from it.. if it didn't have this habit of occasionally refusing to recognize the frackin' hard drive for occasional and intermittent hours at a time. This, despite Dell coming out and replacing Essential Bits.
It is a lovely machine. But it is Not Dependable.
I'm a writer on deadline. I need Dependable.
And so today, after accepting that my beloved Wolfe was never going to get its shit together, I went down to the Apple store on 70th and I said to the very nice boy at the door "you have the chance to turn a lifelong PC user into a Mac user. Show me what you've got."
After some serious discussion about what I needed vs what they wanted to sell me (the first guy was not so good about understanding that and so I walked away. The second guy was much better) I ended up handing over my whimpering credit card for a brand-new Mac Pro 13", and Office:Mac software.
This is going to be my dedicated writing machine, with Wolfe as backup. If Wolfe finally dies the death, I should be able to hook her up to his gigantic monitor, and use the wireless keyboard, and all will be Happy and Productive.
And now I have to learn all the ()*_^& new icons. This, I am not looking forward to. Nor, for that matter, next month's credit card bill. Ouch and ohshit, I really could not afford this right now. But I couldn't afford to not have a dependable machine, either.
So. Here we go....
[just in time for not only work on PSI#4, but also a Sekrit Potential Project, huzzah!]
EtA: *snerk* And the Guy, who is a Mac user, just texted "welcome! You will be much happier."
(This isn't my first Mac - I was a Mac Grrl back in 1988-89 -- but my memory of Mac products was they they were great for graphics types but crap for text support. Here's hoping y'all are right and that has changed...)
It is a lovely machine. But it is Not Dependable.
I'm a writer on deadline. I need Dependable.
And so today, after accepting that my beloved Wolfe was never going to get its shit together, I went down to the Apple store on 70th and I said to the very nice boy at the door "you have the chance to turn a lifelong PC user into a Mac user. Show me what you've got."
After some serious discussion about what I needed vs what they wanted to sell me (the first guy was not so good about understanding that and so I walked away. The second guy was much better) I ended up handing over my whimpering credit card for a brand-new Mac Pro 13", and Office:Mac software.
This is going to be my dedicated writing machine, with Wolfe as backup. If Wolfe finally dies the death, I should be able to hook her up to his gigantic monitor, and use the wireless keyboard, and all will be Happy and Productive.
And now I have to learn all the ()*_^& new icons. This, I am not looking forward to. Nor, for that matter, next month's credit card bill. Ouch and ohshit, I really could not afford this right now. But I couldn't afford to not have a dependable machine, either.
So. Here we go....
[just in time for not only work on PSI#4, but also a Sekrit Potential Project, huzzah!]
EtA: *snerk* And the Guy, who is a Mac user, just texted "welcome! You will be much happier."
(This isn't my first Mac - I was a Mac Grrl back in 1988-89 -- but my memory of Mac products was they they were great for graphics types but crap for text support. Here's hoping y'all are right and that has changed...)
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Date: 2011-03-09 10:19 pm (UTC)There were some strange "key combinations" that I had to get used to--at least for me. For example, when I'm writing in a big file, I like to be able to jump from the beginning to the end a lot, and I couldn't find the key codes for "end" or "beginning" from the manual. I finally figured it out, but it took me a little while.
Anyway, happy new computer day!