It's been a while since I posted anything. Well, I have good reason: my computer bit the dust just before Christmas. What an inopportune time for such a disaster. With the Christmas season already taking a huge bite out of funds, an unexpected expense like a new computer was not welcome news. Plus, with all the time spent with visiting family and going out of town, who has the time to set up a new computer, transfer all the backed-up data, and re-install all those programs? No has the time, but you have to make it when your business relies on a computer and internet access.
I ended up buying a Mac since I think the hardware is much more reliable than any PC maker, and the software is very user-friendly and offers better features, in my opinion. Since there is no software for my business available for Mac, I also had to buy virtualization software. I spent the entire week after Christmas getting files transfered, installing software, and getting re-organized. Then I spent the next few weeks getting caught up on my work, thankfully it was slow between Christmas and New Year's Day.
Everything is pretty much running smoothly...thanks in part to a huge memory upgrade: 1 GB is standard on the iMac, so I upgraded it to 4 GB. The upgrade process is very simple, and the RAM was fairly inexpensive through Newegg. Getting used to some of the new features in Leopard and getting the virtual PC up and running, easily with Parallels, was the biggest part. Running dual monitors on a Mac is a piece of cake compared to my PC and actually offers some additional features that my PC didn't have: separate desktop backgrounds for instance.
I'm very happy with the way everything turned out. Even though this was an unexpected expense, the results, as expected, are excellent.
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