[Normy]

Ladies and gentlemen, I have now changed. I kicked out the "*****" and made the "switch" and folks, I want to tell you that I am now officially gay.

My Sony Vaio PCG-K35, a laptop probably made of concrete....finally developed one too many problems today, so I went over to the Apple store at the Galleria and brought home a new toy, a MacBookPro, 13 inch size.

Bill Gates has great taste in cars, but he's otherwise a dirty, money-grubbing tycoon, no different from John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, or Henry Flagler. All of these businessmen basically RAPED other businessmen in the pursuit of the all-mighty dollar bill. They were sucessfull, but that doesn't mean they are right.

YET-

Henry Ford got rich because he used common sense to produce a product. He built a car that everyone could afford, largely because he figured out a way to build it cheap. As a result, his more "consumer-friendly" products were in great demand and he used the revenue to build his car company into the largest in the world.

-The problem with Henry's cars these days is that they are kind of plastic and cheap and common. I don't care about the "common" part, but my other car, a '97 Ford Aerostar...is built of materials that make me cringe sometimes. I changed out the heater core on this car a few years ago and I couldn't believe how cheesy the dashboard actually was!

Apple just makes a better product. In 2004 when I took my Vaio out of its box, I plugged its' brick into the wall and turned it on. It booted up.

Fine.

When I opened the Mac box tonight, I was greeted by a visual, and a bunch of questions. The opening screen was WAY beyond anything that Windows XP offers. It really reminds me of the difference between my 928 [little on-board electronics] and her Acura TSX, which has a GREAT on-board electronics suite. Now I know that computers have progressed in 6 years, but after using this computer and dealing with the kids in the Apple store in Fort Lauderdale....I can tell you that both are far better at their jobs than their compatriots.

What I will say is that there is going to be a steep learning curve for me. I downloaded Google Chrome [and so should you, if you haven't yet!!]. But I cannot figure out where it went. It doesn't show up at the bottom, and I cannot open "file" and find it~

dammit.

Oh well, I'm sure it will work out in the end. As of tonight, I have an Apple~

[I kind of feel like an airline that has always bought Boeings but just bought its first Airbus~]