You Can Pick My Next Computer

I need your help with an important decision that will affect my future. Should I stay the course with my personal technology or change it up? You, dear readers, will decide.

 Here’s the story.

 When it comes to computers, I’ve always been a PC kind of gal. I was content to go with the mainstream, investing in Windows software because that was the standard for business. I needed my machine to talk to everyone else’s.

Those Mac people were troublemakers. Their e-mails came through as garbage and prompted endless angst about “compatibility.” Why don’t they just give in? I thought. Apple had their chance to grab the market, but they refused to share their code. Windows won the battle and had saturated the market. It was time to surrender.

Surrender? Never! The MacAddicts swore we’d have to pry their fancy trackballs from their cold dead fingers.

Secretly, I envied them. They were a kind of…(Read more)