Borklog: One entry

21 February 2002

Yesterday we went out to get my Dad a new Mac. The IIfx he's been using finally gave up the ghost. It's been awhile since I shopped for a new Mac. The new flat-panel imac would have been perfect, but alas it's not in-stock in stores yet. Instead we got him an 800mhz tower (not the top of the line, but still pretty quick) and a 15" LCD display (beautiful). Being a programmer type, I tend to tweak my machines into annoyance, usually requiring some troubleshooting to get things to work correctly. With that in mind, I was shocked at how easy to set up this machine was. Hooked it up, plugged it in, started it up in OS/X. Installed Office vX and sQuickbooks.. Went and got an HP printer today, and everything Just Worked. No drivers to mess with, no configuration to dink around with. Even downloading AOL (via a cable modem) and then running it over the built in (analog) modem took nearly no time.

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