My name is Douglas and I'm a golf-aholic. I haven't touched a golf club in pleasure, anger, frustration, confusion, agony, or with any other emotion, for a week now. It's tough driving across country for those of us with this addiction.
My wife doesn't understand me about this. But she is sympathetic. In fact, it appears I have a pass for tomorrow. And I shall take advantage of it, too. I am not ashamed.
Now that we have arrived in San Diego, I may miss a few days blogging. Mostly because I hate trying to type on the laptop. Some people like these things but I don't. It's very uncomfortable. The keyboard seems tiny, there's no mouse (well, I have one but I rarely connect it) so I have to use the touchpad, and I seem to do more typos on this than I do on the desktop.
Time for bed. Tomorrow is a golf day.
A Night Unremembered
13 years ago
8 comments:
go, do what you love and are addicted to, we will wait... lol
Not going to harp how much better I think OSX is than Windows - but MacBooks are excellent pieces of hardware that are really not a premium over competing brands (when you take hardware quality into account), and have great, full-size keyboards. I hated the "chiclet" design of them when they were new, and now I can't stand "normal" keyboards...they really put a lot of effort into making them super nice to type on. Next time you're in the market, check out a MacBook and just run Windows on it natively (super easy process, never have to look at or boot MacOS if that's your choice). Consumer reports has consistently given MacBooks and MacBook Pros top billing in the value, failure rate/reliability, and customer support categories.
The glass multi-touch trackpads with no straining to reach for buttons (click anywhere, click anywhere with two fingers for right click, even more functionality for 3 or 4 fingers if you run OSX) are calibrated to be the next best thing after a dedicated external mouse. I only pull out external for gaming (and the wife only sometimes uses them for professional design work).
Anyway, just a thought, if you're ever in the market for a non-barebones el-cheapo laptop.
make that "non-(barebones-el-cheapo) laptop"
Greg, I enjoyed myself today.
Steven, but does it make coffee?
Follow your bliss, my son...
That's the $799 iCafé addon...
That's the $799 iCafé addon...
Not going to harp how much better I think OSX is than Windows - but MacBooks are excellent pieces of hardware that are really not a premium over competing brands (when you take hardware quality into account), and have great, full-size keyboards. I hated the "chiclet" design of them when they were new, and now I can't stand "normal" keyboards...they really put a lot of effort into making them super nice to type on. Next time you're in the market, check out a MacBook and just run Windows on it natively (super easy process, never have to look at or boot MacOS if that's your choice). Consumer reports has consistently given MacBooks and MacBook Pros top billing in the value, failure rate/reliability, and customer support categories.
The glass multi-touch trackpads with no straining to reach for buttons (click anywhere, click anywhere with two fingers for right click, even more functionality for 3 or 4 fingers if you run OSX) are calibrated to be the next best thing after a dedicated external mouse. I only pull out external for gaming (and the wife only sometimes uses them for professional design work).
Anyway, just a thought, if you're ever in the market for a non-barebones el-cheapo laptop.
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