My current desktop PC, a Dell Dimension 3000, is 6.5 years old and showing signs that it wants to retire. Instead of waiting until the last minute, I began searching for its replacement. Although I was never a Mac fan, many friends and co-workers have the iPad 2 and brief views of its functionality got me to reconsider my long-standing negative opinion of Apple products.
Four months later, I still have not decided to get a Windows 7 laptop or an iPad 2. Whenever I got close to picking one over the other, of course, some obscure point popped up and I was back on the fence. Now there's a third option since the local USA TV station is running a Kindle Fire Give Away contest. I entered every day.
As of today, the latest worry point involves, you guessed it, Apple products. My neighbor worked with Macs his whole publishing career and he claims the iPad can't attach to a printer so there is no way to get the documents "out of the icloud." (I don't know about you but I want my stuff with me, not floating in either Microsoft's, Apple's, or even Google's air space.) Next, my friend told me to wait to buy the iPad 2 because Apple is about to release the iPad 3 and she is expecting the iPad 2 prices to go down a lot.
This last point is what stuck in my craw. Apple products can't be upgraded. When there's a new version, one has to throw the old one away. Didn't Apple get the Save the Planet recycling memo? For all the annoying things that Microsoft products do and don't do, and I could write encyclopedias on my own personal experiences, you can upgrade to the next version.
So, my suggestion to Apple is "Go Green." Save the planet so you can still take a bite of an apple. --- Signed: the purchasing public!
Four months later, I still have not decided to get a Windows 7 laptop or an iPad 2. Whenever I got close to picking one over the other, of course, some obscure point popped up and I was back on the fence. Now there's a third option since the local USA TV station is running a Kindle Fire Give Away contest. I entered every day.
As of today, the latest worry point involves, you guessed it, Apple products. My neighbor worked with Macs his whole publishing career and he claims the iPad can't attach to a printer so there is no way to get the documents "out of the icloud." (I don't know about you but I want my stuff with me, not floating in either Microsoft's, Apple's, or even Google's air space.) Next, my friend told me to wait to buy the iPad 2 because Apple is about to release the iPad 3 and she is expecting the iPad 2 prices to go down a lot.
This last point is what stuck in my craw. Apple products can't be upgraded. When there's a new version, one has to throw the old one away. Didn't Apple get the Save the Planet recycling memo? For all the annoying things that Microsoft products do and don't do, and I could write encyclopedias on my own personal experiences, you can upgrade to the next version.
So, my suggestion to Apple is "Go Green." Save the planet so you can still take a bite of an apple. --- Signed: the purchasing public!
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