Thursday, August 28, 2008

How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm, now that they've seen Paree...

I am currently using an Apple computer. A Mac PowerPC G4. A whopping 40GB hard drive, with 640MB of memory, 533MHz processor.

I know, there are people out there with older computers. Slower computers. People with dial-up connections. I have cable internet. I should be happy, my computer is around... oh... 8 years old this December.... and it's still running. I've packed the hard drive so full, there is less than 5 GB free space. Shoot, I love my super high quality old Mac.

Today, however, I went upstairs to use my 20 year old son's one year old PC running Vista (ack, ptooey) while he was at class, so I could watch some Netflix online. My computer can't do that. And while I was there, I dropped some entrecards.

OH MY GOSH!!! Pages loaded so fast I that I had time to READ some of the blogs I visited instead of waiting eons for them to load, and ages for the entrecard widget to say "thanks". I felt like a time traveler who came from the old west on a mule watching a jet plane flying by. I dropped 129 cards!!

On Netflix, I watched some old Law and Order: Criminal Intent and it was like watching it on DVD (almost) with no stuttering, no pixelation...

I should never have gone up there. I should never have seen what I was missing. Now I know. I must have a new computer. I'm here on my old, faithful mac, lusting after a PC. Okay, I'm lusting after a new Mac, but I find myself thinking I could "make do" with a new PC. What's wrong with me???

4 comments:

Designing Hilary said...

The geeks I know would tell you to stick with Mac ... a new one should be just as speedy as a PC. My next computer will be a Mac.

Marlaine said...

As a fellow Mac love, on an iBook G4 that is only two and a half years old, I can sympathize with your lust for a new machine! I have an 80GB hard drive that is almost full and need more space!! Photos and music have filled it up. But I'm here to tell you that when you get your new Mac...it will run as fast as that PC without the fear of a crashing system of viruses! Hope you get one soon!

Waterrose said...

ahhh...don't go over to the dark side...LOL

I have (and posted about) my iMac G5...I watch tv on mine all the time or listen to music... and work in photoshop, illustrator..etc...drop EC, do blogging stuff. Mine is fast. Just get a new mac with the new operating system and you will be in heaven!

S. A. Hart said...

Do not hesitate---go out and get an iMac! You won't regret it.