I have been using Macintosh computers since 1984. I even worked with a Lisa. It was 1986 before I could afford to have one at home, and 1988 before I had an external hard disk. I kept that machine going until 1996. Then I got a laptop, an black thing that connected to a Monitor through a docking device. It was my first internet machine. I have expanded my skills since then, and my desires for a faster machine, with more hard drive storage. Its the images and videos that eat up hard drive space. Twenty years of writing is less than a gig.
Marjorie and I share a desktop machine (IMac G5 20 inch display) and we both have 12 inch notebooks. We are thinking about upgrading to the notebooks, since we have run out of hard drive space. The new lower cost MacBook has everything I need, upgrade the RAM and the Hard Drive, and it be faster than the Desktop.
My present notebook will keep on working, so there is no need to replace it to keep doing what I am doing. But to have a hard disk four times as big as the one I now have and battery life that is twice my present battery life and processing speed four times my present clock speed is tempting. But would it make me a better poet?
But the prices are going down. This thing cost half as much as that 512 megabyte RAM Mac plus (with a floppy drive) that I bought in 1986, and one fifth as much as the Lisa (which had a small hard drive.) My first Laser Printer (the non profit I worked for bought it) cost more than my car. My present one is smaller, but has higher resolution and cost me less than my monthly auto insurance bill.
