Once you drive OS-X, anything else is an imitation
The other day (Thursday, April 22, 2010) we had two medical appointments at Strong Hospital.
I decided to take along this here new Apple MacBook Pro, a laptop.
As far as I knew, Strong was a hot-spot.
The whole idea of this laptop was portability. It has all the functionality of my old tower, but is also portable.
I would use the laptop's keyboard and trackpad — not as functional as my old Apple keyboard and mouse, which both stand alone, but plug into the laptop.
And run it on the battery. —A charge monitor is right on the display, and I figured I wouldn't be using it long enough to come even close to running it out.
I fired up as soon as we got to Strong.
“Which wireless network do you want to log-in to?” —There were four or five.
Okay, we'll try “guest.”
Nothing! Every one of my saved FireFox tabs — I have nine — showed the yellow log-in error message.
So much for that! I reverted to typing in (finishing) a blog.
Doing so was independent of the Internet.
We went to the second appointment.
I tried logging in again — this time “visitor.”
“Holy mackerel!” I said. “Looks like this is gonna work.”
All my FireFox tabs lit; just like here at home.
I set about uploading a blog to BlogSpot. I could also do Facebook and NASCAR.
My TV was a step back, but this laptop was a step forward.
Techies will crow “So what? Join the new century!”
But us old folks are both 66.
It sure was nice to fiddle my 'pyooter while at Strong.
The second appointment was a Zometa® infusion for my wife.
We were across from a lady getting chemo. Her daughter was there, probably in her 40s.
She studiously avoided us as I played with my laptop.
“Computers! I'm sure glad you understand 'em!”
On our way home we stopped at OfficeMax near Victor across from Eastview Mall.
Intent being to purchase two standalone 500-gig backup hard-drives — to back up our computers.
“I have 16 computers,” the geek salesman crowed. “I drive four at once on a console.”
“At least we're not that bad,” my wife said.
Only two computers, one for each person, one a MAC, and one a Windows PC. Because that's what we're each used to.
We had my laptop along in case I needed a strange plug.
The backup hard-drives were USB.
“So what do you think of your MAC?” the checkout asked. “I just got one.”
“Once you drive OS-X,” I said; “anything else is an imitation.”
• “FireFox” is the Internet browser I use. You can keep multiple “tabs” open of web-sites you often use.
• RE: “Doing so was independent of the Internet......” —I type these blogs into a word-processor on my computer, and then copy/paste onto the blog-site.
• “‘Pyooter” is computer.
• “Computers! I'm sure glad you understand 'em!” is actually my mother-in-law.
• “Victor” is a suburb southeast of Rochester, and north of where we live. (We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield in Western NY, southeast of Rochester.) —Victor used to be a farm town, and once had three railroads.
• “Eastview Mall” is a large shopping mall near Victor.
• “USB” is Universal-Serial-Bus, what most personal computers use to connect peripherals, like a printer, digital-camera or scanner. It's a simple terminal that connects directly to the computer's motherboard.
• This computer is an Apple Macintosh.
I decided to take along this here new Apple MacBook Pro, a laptop.
As far as I knew, Strong was a hot-spot.
The whole idea of this laptop was portability. It has all the functionality of my old tower, but is also portable.
I would use the laptop's keyboard and trackpad — not as functional as my old Apple keyboard and mouse, which both stand alone, but plug into the laptop.
And run it on the battery. —A charge monitor is right on the display, and I figured I wouldn't be using it long enough to come even close to running it out.
I fired up as soon as we got to Strong.
“Which wireless network do you want to log-in to?” —There were four or five.
Okay, we'll try “guest.”
Nothing! Every one of my saved FireFox tabs — I have nine — showed the yellow log-in error message.
So much for that! I reverted to typing in (finishing) a blog.
Doing so was independent of the Internet.
We went to the second appointment.
I tried logging in again — this time “visitor.”
“Holy mackerel!” I said. “Looks like this is gonna work.”
All my FireFox tabs lit; just like here at home.
I set about uploading a blog to BlogSpot. I could also do Facebook and NASCAR.
My TV was a step back, but this laptop was a step forward.
Techies will crow “So what? Join the new century!”
But us old folks are both 66.
It sure was nice to fiddle my 'pyooter while at Strong.
The second appointment was a Zometa® infusion for my wife.
We were across from a lady getting chemo. Her daughter was there, probably in her 40s.
She studiously avoided us as I played with my laptop.
“Computers! I'm sure glad you understand 'em!”
On our way home we stopped at OfficeMax near Victor across from Eastview Mall.
Intent being to purchase two standalone 500-gig backup hard-drives — to back up our computers.
“I have 16 computers,” the geek salesman crowed. “I drive four at once on a console.”
“At least we're not that bad,” my wife said.
Only two computers, one for each person, one a MAC, and one a Windows PC. Because that's what we're each used to.
We had my laptop along in case I needed a strange plug.
The backup hard-drives were USB.
“So what do you think of your MAC?” the checkout asked. “I just got one.”
“Once you drive OS-X,” I said; “anything else is an imitation.”
• “FireFox” is the Internet browser I use. You can keep multiple “tabs” open of web-sites you often use.
• RE: “Doing so was independent of the Internet......” —I type these blogs into a word-processor on my computer, and then copy/paste onto the blog-site.
• “‘Pyooter” is computer.
• “Computers! I'm sure glad you understand 'em!” is actually my mother-in-law.
• “Victor” is a suburb southeast of Rochester, and north of where we live. (We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield in Western NY, southeast of Rochester.) —Victor used to be a farm town, and once had three railroads.
• “Eastview Mall” is a large shopping mall near Victor.
• “USB” is Universal-Serial-Bus, what most personal computers use to connect peripherals, like a printer, digital-camera or scanner. It's a simple terminal that connects directly to the computer's motherboard.
• This computer is an Apple Macintosh.
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