I spent the weekend getting accustomed to a Macintosh, again. I bought my first Mac, a PowerMac G4 MDD, over a year and a half now but only touched it a few times since Frankie was born. Reason being, it's too damn noisy. We had to keep it in our spare room making it difficult to watch Frankie or have a normal conversation during our time together in the evening.

We spend a large portion of our time on a computer, like most, so going with a wireless notebook was the only option. We bought a wireless card and access point for our existing PC notebook and never looked back at the desktop world. A year and a half of heavy use took its' toll so we ponied up for a new 12" Apple PowerBook with a built in wireless and DVD burner last week, and also slipped in a 20 GB iPod to replace my ailing MD player.

Having the option to switch user without logging out and seamlessly changing from an English OS, programs and menus to Japanese is simply amazing and exactly what we needed. And I'm anxious to start cataloging our growing collection of miniDV tapes onto DVD.

After I lugged the massive PowerMac out from under my desk and backed up our mp3 and photo library I wondered why I ever bothered with a desktop in the first place. The ease and convenience of a wireless notebook is just too great to ever give up.

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