2 Mac Household

Last night Kelly and I became a 2 Mac household. Her laptop was seriously hosed this past week and we had been talking about replacing it anyway as it was quite old and the wireless didn't really work all that well. Her XP machine becoming unusably unstable was the perfect excuse for us to get her a new one.

Friday night we went to Best Buy and took a look at the laptops they had to offer. We checked the HP that I had researched as the most bang for her buck in the Window's world as well as a couple of others. We played with the touch screen HP, though that is not really a portable computer (would look great mounted on the wall in my kitchen and running OS X... hint, hint Apple).

Then we took a look at the MacBooks. Kelly has enjoyed using my MackBook Pro, but wishes she was more comfortable with it. She doesn't like that she can't really do anything on a Mac without help from an experienced user. She gets all the Windows she wants at work (and I still have my tower running XP). So she decided to take the OS X plunge with me and get familiar. This is actually great because I still don't have to be annoyed by Vista.

She was already a Firefox, OpenOffice (NeoOffice on the Mac) and iTunes user, so this isn't a huge shift for her. She uses Gmail for email, so he mail client isn't changing. I setup her iChat to log into her GTalk account so she is set there. I can't really think of anything she uses that will substantially change from Windows to OS X.

Bonus, if she wants to reacquaint herself with Unix her laptop is a Unix machine so fire up ye ol' Terminal and have at it. I think she is going to be very happy with this new computer. I know we will look sexy as hell with the Panera, eating our yummy sandwiches and using our trendy computers with big old smiles on our faces.