My new MacBook-Pro

My new MacBook-Pro

—Yr Fthfl Srvnt decided to re-assert “I ain’t dead yet” by ordering what may well be my last computer, a 2019 MacBook-Pro laptop, refurbished by Apple. A laptop because they’re portable.
This current MacBook-Pro laptop, also refurbished by Apple, is over 10 years old. It’s the 17-inch wide-screen. 17’s are no longer made.
It’s slow = about five minutes boot-up. I schedule my morning around it — give it time.
Sometimes it hangs; it can’t get its operating system.
It came with OS-X Snow-Leopard. Now it’s El-Cappy (El Capitan), and it’s on hard-drive #2. The original hard-drive, 500 gigs, gave up. Hard-drive #2 is one terabyte (1,000 gigs) — big enough to swallow the entire known universe.
Fortunately I had it backing up to an external hard-drive: Apple’s “Time-Machine.” We could “migrate” my old hard-drive contents to my #2 hard-drive.
$2,209 + $165.68 taxes = $2,374.68. Probably overkill, but I can afford it. In fact, it looks like I can do it outta current income: Social Security plus pension plus what I get from retirement savings.
My wife and I never spent anything. No Corvette, no speedboat, no motorhome, no kids to put through college. So Apple benefits from my largesse.
Someone told me “priorities man” = it’s what I want. I live in a dustbin full of junk and megabuck computer equipment. My TV is putrid because I never watch TV.
Others have gigantic wall-mounted flat-screens, all to better watch the Super-Bowl — which I didn’t watch.
It’s just another football-game, unless the Buffalo Bills were in it. I’ll be dead-and-gone before that happens.
An eight-core (“2.3GHz 8-core Intel Core i9”) is over-the-top for what I do, which I’m currently doing on this ancient dual-core. Mainly slinging words (writing) and processing photographs for my annual train calendar.
I felt like this antique was on borrowed time. El-Cappy is also a bit much for a dual-core.
My Photoshop-Elements can usually extract a useable photo if the photographer composed well enough — and didn’t muck up royally. My brother’s camera sets everything automatically, so his shutter-speed may be too slow to stop a train. (We photograph trains.)
An old computer is like an old car. What’s gonna fail next?
As for the user, that too is what’s gonna fail next? Physically I’m falling apart, but the gray-matter still works pretty good. (Age-76 February 5th.)
This rig never let me down, but it’s time.

• RE: “We photograph trains.....” —My brother-and-I are railfans.