Hey Mac, A New Computer for this Chicago Real Estate Pro
Somewhere between then and now I crossed over.
After countless episodes with a pc that wasn’t intent so much on malfeasance as miscreance I finally had enough.In truth, the pc finally had enough. With a monitor dangling from the keyboard like an all-too-heavy metaphor ready to plummet urgently, defiantly and mordantly to the earth and a hard drive that behaved as though it had endured years of hard living, the time had come to say adieu to the pc.
But rather than begin the process over anew with another operating system subject to bugs, viruses, slowdowns and irrational sit down strikes, I decided to strike out on a new path altogether.
And so I scribble my first online missive about the Chicago real estate market from my new Mac.
No longer constrained by the false idea that size matters I sit before a 13 inch screen and happily renew the spirited monolog that is allowed me from the podium of The Real Estate Lounge Chicago.
For those who occasionally stop by this somewhat peripheral discussion of Chicago real estate you may have noticed that I have been a bit of a laggard the past six weeks or so. In part the passing of my mom at the end of July contributed to the hiatus.
The simultaneous discombobulation of my pc also deserves a degree of credit (or blame).
It’s funny, the laptop was expressing tell-tale signs of age (a nearly two-year-old laptop is antiquarian). But the skids toward disintegration were really greased the morning my mom died. Flipping the pc shut at my brother’s place in Galesburg it closed oddly giving forth aĀ subtle clicking. Alas, the clicking proved to be more of a cracking and the cracking was the snapping of the joint that keeps the monitor and the keyboard together.
And so commenced the rapid journey of my laptop toward an unintentional desk top.
But even in this role its utility was horribly impaired. With age came what might best be termed an online ossification. Each time I went to use the computer took more time.
Everybody who uses a Windows operating system is familiar with the start up time. It’s like hot water in an old house. You turn the water on many minutes before you get into the shower in order to have hot water. The same idea holds true with Windows as an early click is needed to wake the beast in order to move forward toward getting it warmed up and ready to work.
But in a world where instant responses are sometimes imperative, waiting for a slower and slower machine is not only fruitless, sometimes it is fruit loss. Somebody who wants to know about a Chicago home for sale or is interested in listing their condo for sale isn’t interested in delayed response time.
Nor am I.
What I noticed about Mac (because my wife has one) is that the curious critter works as soon as you flip up the screen. No excuses. No delays. No problems.
And as I turned to her machine more and more with the sputtering and imminent demise of my pc I evolved from a grudging admiration to something approaching adoration. In the same manner that I approach the work that I do for my buying and selling clients in the Chicago real estate market the Mac does what it says it will do when it says it will do it.
And it does it well.
Friday afternoon I went to the Apple store on Michigan Avenue to pick up my new computer. Rather than patting you on the back as you head out the door with your new machine the Apple concept appears to rooted in welcoming rather than departing. So I showed up Friday and was walked through the basics on my new operating system.
It is the first of a year-long series of tutorials that I can participate in either in person or online. The upshot is that I will have full knowledge of how to more fully and easily use my computer. No small thing given the integral role technology plays in serving the needs of my buying clients and my real estate listings in the Chicago market.
And so it goes with the first posting using my new Mac.
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