Betsy using her new MacBook. August 9, 2009.
Betsy has a new toy! It is somewhat of a belated birthday present — we picked it up after we got back home. That was a couple of days after her birthday, but I don’t think she minds too much.
Our computer room is in the front of our house, but most of Betsy’s bird feeders are on the deck in the back. So Betsy was always jumping up from her computer to see her birds (or to make sure squirrels weren’t eating everything in the feeders) or else she was reluctantly leaving her ‘throne’ — her side of our reclining sofa — to come into the computer room. I won’t say Betsy did this a lot, but there is a well-worn path between her iMac and her throne (I’m kidding!!).
This past weekend was a tax-free weekend in Tennessee, so we got Betsy a new MacBook. We saved almost enough on the tax to pay for the wireless router. Since our iMacs have wireless capability we got rid of our old router and discovered that the wireless connection is faster than the old wired connection. And more importantly Betsy can sit on her throne and watch her birds (and the TV) and work on her new computer at the same time. And she says she can’t multi-task!
Right now our iMacs are still wired to printers and external hard drives, but we’ll probably go wireless with them in the future. It will be nice to get rid of some of the cables under our desks.
Come to think of it, Betsy got the new toy, but I’ve enjoyed the benefits of going wireless. Now if I could only get Betsy to let me play with her new toy!
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