Mollie and I used to have three PC’s. Yes, I know how un-green that is, but we don’t have cable and use our computers and the internet very extensively.
We had a desktop which we bought in early 2002 and was still a good machine, though it seemed to have it’s problems like crashing hard drives several times in the years we owned it. We had a laptop that I bought back when I was self employed in late 2002 and was still a good machine though it had lost the hard drive once and had some other niggling hardware problems. And I had a laptop from my employer, which is the one I used the most. All these ran various versions of Windows XP.
In July, the desktop died. As we still had two machines available, I didn’t rush out to fix it. Then in August, the laptop also died. Around about that time I was starting to think about changing jobs so I knew I’d be losing access to my employers laptop as well.
So, we did the logical thing since we were starting from scratch and Mollie is a musician. We bought a Mac.
So far our experience in the Mac world is excellent, although we will admit there’s a learning curve and that there are some things that were easier on a PC but mostly because we were more familiar.
We sold the laptop, which turned out to need a new hard drive. And then at Christmas found out that the desktop motherboard was toast, so there’d be no bringing it back from the dead.
Since that time, I’ve purchased a cheap enclosure for the desktop hard drive (now a backup drive for the Mollie’s Mac) and just recently, gone ahead with the purchase of a new MacBook for me, and sent the old desktop to the recycle centre.
We are now a completely Mac household, and loving it.
