The evaluation continues, and I remain impressed by lots of little niceties. Enough to know that when I buy another poota it will be a Mac but not as yet enough to go storming wildly off to the Mac shop with credit card flapping.
One thought occurred to me today. The old G3 (five years old) I've borrowed has two things stopping it from working perfectly as a home computer. Chiefly, the screen is stuffed, less importantly the CD player won't eject. It occurs to me to wonder what happens to the G5 iMac I buy tomorrow if in four or five years the screen gives it away in similar fashion? Going out and picking up a replacement monitor doesn't seem likely.
Even someone of my limited knowledge has managed to replace a hard drive, install an extra hard drive, replace RAM and install a new CD burner in the trusty old Wintel. I don't particularly WANT to be taking computers apart, and I'm relying heavily on online advice when I do, but I can do it.
So does my iMac become an expensive throwaway?
