We currently have an IBM laptop and a Compaq laptop, neither were the most expensive models on the market when each of us bought them, but the newest out of the two of them was purchased a few months before we met in June of 2008. In human years that seems to me pretty new, but in computer years I'm basically scratching on a cave wall, and the other laptop isn't far from that either. The problem is that the old one is slow and too old to upgrade while the new one has so many bugs from the first release of Vista and other issues related to me trying to set it up to our network using online advice from blogs that it'll be expensive to have the Geek Squad fix it. Plus, I don't want nerds laughing at me.
We do however have an iPad that I'm allowed to play on from time to time. This arrangements works out well because I don't want to carry around something that cool and fragile because I know myself too well, but the way technology is going would it be smarter for us to buy the new iPad when it comes out and not look at a computer? The iPad and a desktop computer? The price for desktops is attractive to me, as is the options, hard drive sizes, speed, etc. Of course there are always docking stations that laptops can plug into so that you can use a regular monitor and keyboard at home on your desk. Wait... Apple or IBM? Apples better with graphic design, photo and video editing, etc that she'd probably do if we bought an Apple, but IBM compatibles are cheaper! Too many choices!
And as for the cartoon yes, I was an English major. Business too, but I still don't know spit about computers.
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