Photo credit, Brian Solis. Check out the original bub.blicio.us post here.
I’m a pretty big Dell fan. I got my first Dell desktop in 1998 before starting college. In 2004, my husband and I were still using my Dell, only it was now full of his stuff as well as mine. We purchased another Dell desktop in the summer of 2004, and are still using it today (with 2 additional external hard drives to accomodate 2 DSLRs).
In November, I purchased a Dell Inspiron Mini to act as the travel computer for my little family. This was disappointing as the keyboard is infuriating, the apostrophe key has been heinously repositioned and each time I go to type an apostrophe, I hit the enter key and get a line break instead. It’s gotten to the point where I think I will need to purchase an external keyboard to use with the Mini, or I might not use it at all. I got this machine to have convenience and mobility but if I don’t want to use it, it defeats the purpose. This is the one major problem I’ve had with Dell over the years, because I can’t imagine that proper testing wouldn’t have revealed this keyboard as having a major design flaw.
We purchased a new Dell 24-inch LCD monitor recently to improve our experience (especially important for editing photos in Photoshop, etc), while discussing what seems to be an inevitable switch to Mac when we’re ready to spend a bunch of money on a new desktop and maybe a new laptop to match.
I don’t use Macs that often. It takes a few minutes for me to get my bearings with one and even then I’m only using it for a few minutes so I do what I need to and then get out. My husband uses a Mac at work, so for him, this is not a big deal. I will admit to being a bit scared of the transition.
However, if Dell wants to play the game and come out with sexy stuff like the Adamo, I might have to rethink the idea of going to a Mac.
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nooooo. we neeeeeed a mac.