My wonderful husband Phil, bought me a new laptop the other day as an investment for my business. I have a Surface Pro at the moment and I absolutely love it but sadly it was dropped and damaged a while ago and although it still works, certain things are broken like the speaker and the microphone so I can't use it for zoom or watching Netflix. I am so used to the lightness of it and the touchscreen and the detachable keyboard, that when the MacBook arrived, I couldn't make the swap! It was too heavy, felt clunky and I just didn't want it. I know there are people out there who think I'm crazy, but for me, I don't want to go back to a non-touch screen computer and I don't know if I want to go completely Apple either as much as I love my iPhone. So, my very patient and amazing man sent the computer back. I am going to wait a little while before we invest in a new one and I'm going to have to figure out if I can go back to a standard laptop after using this wonderful flexible thing for so long or if I want another Surface Pro.
This whole experience made me think. Originally the idea of an Apple completely excited me and I really thought I wanted one until it arrived and I realised that as much as society and the Apple advertising wizards tell me I should love Apple products, I just don't love them as much as the hype. I love their packaging, the logo and some aspects of them, but I have to face it, I'm a PC girl at heart. It feels good to understand that about myself. To realise what I want and what matters to me. When the time comes to get a new computer, I'm going to choose it myself. I'm also really wondering why Apple haven't come up with a touchscreen laptop. It just totally threw me off that a laptop in today's world wouldn't be touchscreen.
I was listening to the Minimalists podcast today. I don't consider myself a minimalist (yet) but I really like their philosophy on life and I do embrace a lot of their ideas. One of the quotes I wrote down was, "New isn't always better, it's only newer." It is so true and yet in so many ways we are programmed to think that new is always better. My 13 year old has to actually be persuaded to watch any movie that's more than about three years old, yet new movies are not necessarily better, just newer. It's only better if it actually does what you need it to do in a way the old product doesn't.
I'm taking another quote from the minimalists as my quote for today, "Everything you've picked up, you can put down." I'm going to ponder the ramifications of that over the weekend.
My photo for today is of me and my trusty Surface Pro. Damaged but still my preferred choice.
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