[quote=“Jaboney”]I remember when you made the switch a couple years ago – effortless click of a well made automobile – and now you’ve got how many?
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:bravo: Ah yes, I remember the phrase! Superb!
I have three at present, with the fourth, a Mac Air coming tomorrow (Thanks again, Taffy! Old school Forumosan knowledge base at work there. Lubbly!).
Mac Mini - is in my office upstairs at present. The Thai Princess inherits this reformatted into Thai tomorrow, and will lug her piece of shite Windoze laptop back to leave in Bangkok for when she’s in Thailand. However, when that click happens for her liek it did for me, I’m sure it will be given to an extremely grateful niece or nephew! She is doing external study from a Thai university, so she needs her own beast, and in Thai.
Mac Mini - Lounge. Entertainment hub and connected to a big external hard drive. The Thai Princesses watch an incredible amount of free and legal Thai content online on the big screen. For the record, Korean soaps are equally shite dubbed into Thai as they are in Chinese. But I’m assuming you would have guessed that anyway.
MacBook - My old workhorse, given to the 10 year old lil’ Thai Princess but under the proviso that I take it when travelling. I’ll reformat that for her after I get my new Mac Air. She’s now starting to use it for school. She’s also transitioning from a Thai to English based education, and she doesn’t probably know or care, but the work and play she’s doing on the computer in English is a hidden and fun lesson. As it will become completely devoted to her, she can get right into it by setting up her own music, and other preferences and not worry about changing mine.
Airport Extreme - Wireless for the house. Thinking of getting a smaller Airport for travelling. I sometimes take the Extreme for longer hols in Thailand, but I hate fidgeting with the settings when I get back, and it’s bloody heavy.
Mac Air - Arriving tomorrow. I will supe it up, but unsure how much, or how big the screen. Will compare them physically in the shop and decide. I may sacrifice weight for screen size, as I tend to be in front of a screen during periods of very little sleep when I’m on the road with work, and I intend to be on the road more often. A small screen kills my eyes, especially when I’m already tired. It will replace my existing Mac Mini as my office and entertainment hub - connected to a widescreen for telly stuff, and a large monitor and external keyboard and mouse for work in my rooftop office/lair.
iPhone - Haven’t got it yet, but that’s coming soon. Promised for the Thai Princess as a birthday present some time ago, but waited for an unlocked model, so she can swap SIMs when she’s in Thailand. My pair of Princesses often escape back to Thailand to catch the inlaws and dare I say it, eat well over school hols while I lump it with the Cantos. I’m stuck with a crappy Shackleberry, and simply can’t justify carrying two bricks, as much as I’d love an iPhone for myself. Work thing. For compliance reasons it has to be Blackberry and owned by the firm.
On software, I likewise have a friend that swears he can’t live without Quicksilver. I have it, but never pulled it out of the shed. Not really sure what it does.
I forget the name, but there’s some software that lets you see Windows media files on those odd Mac unfriendly websites. Not sure if the one I use is good, it is annoying as it keeps asking for updates but playing the media fine when I decline.
HG