The corporate world I am floating through is very PC based. A few years ago I had an opportunity to play around on Macs in my work environment, but it’s been a number of years since I’ve even seen one in the office. Knowing this, when it was time to choose a laptop I could use for business and pleasure, I decided to go the PC route. Each time I needed a laptop upgrade, I drooled and pined over iBooks but over the years have settled on a progression of Compaq, Averatec, and Dell machines.

I consoled myself with the knowledge that at least I had a nice Mac desktop at home to use when I wasn’t travelling.

Owning a laptop makes it hard to move from the comfy couch to the hard office chair after a long day’s work. There are a bazillion excuses why I’d sit working away on my Dell rather than caressing the keys of my Mac. Finally, when we moved to the mouse house the pretense of working on my Mac was abandoned. We don’t yet have the space to accomodate a desktop system in the small office/library/craft room. So it sits abandoned in a closet in it’s original packaging. When I’m home, I hear it calling to me.

Every few days, when I’m busy cursing some new annoyance brought on by my laptop or a Windows based program, I fantasize about cracking open the packing boxes and setting up the Mac. I dream of winning the lottery so I can ditch the Dell and buy a shiney new iBook…

Today, I was trying to pull a piece of software off my system to reinstall, only to be advised by the system repeatedly that bits and pieces were still installed. Thus began my lengthy time in purgatory – suffering through yea old dig through the registry and try to find all it’s tendrils un-install method.

I can’t stand it anymore. I really miss my Mac today.

Technorati Tags: apple, macintosh, mac, dell

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.