After 15 years of not having a Macintosh in the house, I ended up getting a MacBook Pro in 2011. It was the end of that year, and having a Mac was something well, I guess I wanted. At work, I was still using a PC but wanted to have a computer for home that was different, and I missed using MacOS. We decided to get a MacBook Pro. First, the quality of the Macintosh computers has always been high. But the Macbook pro we got back in 2011, is simply an amazing computer. We are getting rid of that computer because after seven years it isn’t used anymore. We have another Macbook that I use frequently, but that particular one has been sitting in my wife’s office for the past six months, and we haven’t used it. Time to start getting rid of things we aren’t using!
Not moving away from Apple, just picking one of the Apple’s in our orchard and getting rid of it. One bad apple doesn’t spoil the whole bunch (girl) as the Osmonds used to say. The MacBook Pro is a great system overall. We ended up getting a second MacBook in 2014. With that one, you don’t have the same screen size (15 vs. 17), but with an SSD drive, it is so much faster. We won’t be buying a new Mac; we are downsizing the number of computers in the house. We still have far too many computers. But, the first Mac back in the house served us well. I was a Mac user from 1984 all the way to 1996. I ran an Apple Computer Users group for some years (1991 to 1996).
It does make me sometimes think about the technology path I’ve taken. The move to touch and touch interaction means I have a PC in my house. I like being able to draw on the screen when I need to. It makes a difference in the job I have because I am frequently during online or live meetings. Being able to quickly share a drawing makes a difference. Look I am not an artist, but I do like to convey it’s when I am working with people online. I do often interact with people online, and I often use my computer to create pen drawings of what I am talking about.
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Question of
Do you use a pen or pencil with your compute device? (laptop, desktop or Tablet?)
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Yes
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No
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Do you use a digital assistant with your computer (Alexa, Siri, Cortana)?
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Yes
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No
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I have a wacom tablet, but I rarely use it these days
I have three at the house. Two of the bamboos and one of the larger tablets. I haven’t taken them out of their cases in a long time. It is probably time to get rid of them!
perhaps keep one around, but…
I don’t know at this point. The bamboo’s are nice but worthless. Even as a donation they aren’t even a decent tax write off.
list them on ebay, perhaps my gf will grab one…
I suspect for now they will sit in my office gathering dust. They are in the someday’s list (you know someday I will use them again)!
that’s also my gf’s favorite list!
I have never tried any digital assistant, even Google Text-to-Speech doesnt understand me. 😀
Some of the newer assistants are much better, but I do understand what you are saying Ellie!
I saw a video where they were testing different assistants with different English accents and they did pretty well overall.
I did some testing a year or two ago. I found it interesting how much better the assistants did then I thought they would.
I am enjoying my Mac and will probably replace it with another one when the time comes.
I like my second mac a lot, it is staying in the office. I just don’t need two!