I'm a Mac, but I had to buy a PC

07.28.09

Today I finally had to pull the trigger to purchase a new PC laptop for my Mom. Her laptop is so old — “How old is it?” — It’s so old that my new iPhone 3G S literally has more RAM than her computer does and nearly the same size HDD. The whole experience was truly depressing. I really don’t want to be the quintessential Apple fanboy, but I’m left with little choice in the matter. I’ve only been a Mac user for 18 months or so, but that’s really all I need to stake my claim. Picking which “cheap” new PC I was sentencing my mother to was like being forced to catch a cold, but you get to choose which one. Would you rather:

  1. Feel pretty decent but deal with a runny nose and a headache all day? Or,
  2. Feel absolutely fine, but then out of nowhere totally lose your lunch?

Dramatic I know, but to get something respectable, you need to spend close to $800 and then you’re close enough to Mac territory and you may as well Man/Woman up! My only constraint was a 15″ monitor a good reputation. First parts easy enough, the second was another story.

I argued valiantly for Mom to buy a Refurbished Unibody Macbook for the smoking hot price of $950, which sounded like robbery to her. I told her it was indeed robbery; she was robbing Apple with that terrific price. The deciding point was that her Real Estate Network in her area can’t be accessed from anything but IE. Mom, sadly doesn’t have interest in running a virtual machine on her shiny new Mac, so I surrendered.

At the end of the day, I made a decision. Don’t ask what the choice was because it’s really not that interesting. It’ll work marginally well for her, after she purchases Anti-Virus software and figures out how not to have it scan every time she’s doing anything at all. Moving on…

3 Responses to “I'm a Mac, but I had to buy a PC”

  • 07.29.09 Sarah J04 Says:

    my eyes can’t roll back in my head any further over your out of control mac fanboy-ness!

  • 08.4.09 SparkyFlash Says:

    Hilarious post, you’ve got a great sense of humor! :) I was smiling :) But hey, from my experience PC can be pretty good when you know what’s you’re doing;)

  • 09.24.09 Pablo Says:

    My name is Pablo and I’m a Mac-addict!

    I’ve been one for over 18 years and I never get tired of tell PC users to GET A MAC.

    They say “I defrag and yet it’s still running slow.” – I say “Get a Mac!” It just works.
    They say “I get viruses in all my emails even running a virus checker.” – I say “Get a Mac!” 300,000 viruses? Not on a Mac.
    They say “I’ve got my sound card and video card and web cam plugged in and speakers connected and I still can’t get Skype to work.” – I say “It’s all part of a Mac…so get a Mac!” Everything-ready.

    You get the idea :0)

    PC’s were designed as calculating machines – which they are very good at doing, then people have been sticking extra bits in them to make them better.
    Macs were designed as design-tools – you don’t need to add anything else!

    If you want a Porsche, don’t get a Ford and add lots of stuff to it – it will still be a Ford with lots of stuff on it! Go buy a Porsche!

    Keep a PC as a large desk paper-weight and use a Mac.

    I could go on…

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