So, here I am at the beginning of a new life, starting from scratch with all sorts of things to buy.
Obviously, I have to make the most important decision of my life about one of the basic staples of my life.
I don’t know about the broadband connection to the new flat so I’m going to have to rent some internet time until I can get it sorted.
I’m thinking Vodafone… but I’m also thinking of investing in a laptop.
Blinded by science at PC World, with hundreds of netbooks and laptops to bemuse me, I call upon my trusty readers to give me guidance.
It’s like that whole Betamax vs VHS dilemma all over again.
To stay with the Windows system, with which I am familiar or to pay the extra money and take advantage of improved reliability by getting a Mac?
I don’t play games… well, apart from Scrabble on Facebook… I want to be able to watch iplayer and c4 on demand. Obviously, I need to be able to access my blog and comment on other people’s. I send/receive less than 50 emails per day (if you don’t count all those notifications from Facebook and Blogger, if you do, then it will be somewhat more). I upload photos from my phone now and again and fiddle around with them a bit in photobucket for HNTs and download about ten images per week for Mute Monday. I’d quite like to have the facility to watch dvds but it’s not the end of the world if I don’t. If I didn’t get a stand-alone PC, then I would need to be able to write letters now and again (usually I use Word).
From my status question on Facebook, I suspect that I am about to open up a whole can of worms because so many people have such strong opinions, but tell me what your experience is telling you…?
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