My last post on here was about the last straw with my old laptop. Dying its death of a thousand cuts transpired that any time I tried to open something my next move would be to go away and make a cup of tea, or mop the floor, or paint the Forth Bridge. And still I would often return, do something further, and find myself watching the little blue circle of death turning on the screen. In that blog post I spent the best part of a morning trying to load some pictures, and finally gave up.
If I hadn’t had an Ipad to hand I might have thought this was all due to a slow internet connection, but no, on the Ipad it doesn’t take a Bank Holiday to open Facebook, and loading pictures takes just a few seconds. Yes, I have no doubt that my brother’s imminent clean-out of the laptop will result in good things but still, retail therapy time and, fuck it, a new laptop is tax deductible.
I’ve read many times that Apple computers are just faster, with a better operating system and simply easier to use. This has proved out with the iPad and, while I was moaning about my old laptop, someone on Facebook suggested the Macbook Pro. I took the plunge and my brother brought me one when he came out here on holiday a week ago.
I’m slowly getting used to this new toy. I was worried about not having Microsoft Word, but Pages isn’t much different and is easy to use. It’s not as if I will be doing anything complicated with it — just words and stuff. The operating system is taking a bit of getting used to and it’s asking me things concerning iCloud that I’m clueless about. But oh my, the thing is damned fast, pretty and sleek, and I just know I did the right thing buying it.
5 comments:
Ick. Apple. Your choice, though!
1) If you're bored, and want to bring your old machine back to life, give Linux Mint a whirl. Piece of piss to install and use and will run like lightning; good back-up for browsing if nothing else.
2) You can get Word for a Mac (I know, I know, you already know this).
Hope it's stopped raining. Beautiful here in blighty, doubly so given Miliband is not PM.
Sadly, no matter how I tried I could not read what is written in that notebook, but I can make out the blog post on the Mac. I wonder if it is a return of Chris Golem....
Gotta say, it is an unusual colour you chose on the bridge. It almost looks like rust, or even the dreaded red lead of the no-so-safe past. :)
Since you will be basically text editing, try a top of line text editor instead of a word processor, I did this a while back and my productivity went on an upwards trend. These editors are designed for programmers / coders, however producing text files using the software is a joy. BTW 'Sublime Text 2' includes features for authors of "prose"
try any of thesefrom here, my fave is Sublime Text 2
http://www.imore.com/best-free-and-paid-text-editors-mac
Of all the sorts of therapy I have been involved with, it's the retail variety that has the most sound and consistent results.
Especially if the item in question is shiny and metal.
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