No, I love my mac. I'll be hartbroken when it dies. It's just that between my ipod and my android, there's really nothing short of the convenience of having done things a certain way for years to justify a new macbook. Which is pretty slim justification if you think about it.
I've got a cloud storage that I built myself which can support up to 24 tb of files. All of my CD'as are on drive now and packed away in boxes because I have no room to display them. I can email and browse on both of my mobiles. I can torrent on my droid. I haven't OCR'ed on my mac for about two years now because it's so easy on the ipod, and with knfb now on droid, I've got a good solution there too. Microsoft is putting most of it's accessibility efforts into office mobile right now, and it shows. Add in the microsoft unified codebase, and I'm actually excited about the possibilities for word processing on mobile devices. Then there are highly robust databasing apps for mobile. Plus with the array of accessories available such as scanning stands, bar code readers, and daily living kit. Add in the intergration of audiobook and music delivery services and I can honestly say I haven't even missed my mp3 player in a year and a half though I still carry it with me for some reason. I'll miss audio editing as right now there's no way to get my edirol m16DX to interface with either a droid or an I device that I know of. For that reason, I'm hoping my mac hangs around a couple of ears until I come up with something I'm happy with for mid range field recording and studio work. Again, It's been a couple of years since I've really had my hand in there anyway, I just want the option since I have all the equipment anyhow. I'll also miss mess, since mess for droid hasn't really gotten the attention I'd like to see put into it. I waited for 8 years to have something like mess for mac and now that I can play my classic apple IIe games I'll be sad to let that go. I do have an accessible frotz for android though, so I can still access text adventures. If my mac dies, I'll want one of two great portable keyboards that are on the market right now. Or, if I decide to go tablet for some reason then I wouldn't be without a keyboard foleo case. If my mbp kicked the bucket tomorrow, it would cost me between $1100 and $1300 outright to replace it. Where-as, my $200 moto g is two years old now, and my ipod is three and I could limp along in sprightly manner with that if I had to. But I could spend $700 on the mightiest android known to man unlocked and carrier ready, and $300 on the new ipod touch wich is just a thuroughly awsome piece of kit, and still have $300 left over to spend on accessories. As long as I have a current back up of all my notes and things in the cloud when my mbp goes, I won't even skip a beat. Most of my people these days are fully mobile either via ipad or a phone of some kind and don't own a computer of any kind. My parents computer died last year and my mom replaced it with a $100 android tablet that does absolutely everything she wants to do including run her small business, print patterns, track recipes, advertize on facebook and more. Mobile computing is better in every way. Mobiles are cheaper to build, cheaper to package, cheaper to store, cheaper to ship, and cheaper to buy. They're faster and more efficient for day to day computing than desktops which have more power still but always take longer to do even the simplest thing such as launch a program. Mobiles have better battery as you would expect. They generate less material waste and have more recyclable components, especially when you ad in the vast reduction in cable clutter. Even though I'm not really happy with the stability and performance of the last couple of IOS, I'd still take that over the atrocity of elcapitan from what I've read and yes, windows 10 is a lot more user friendly than windows 8, but don't make me laugh. so again, I'm not holding my breath til my macbook dies, but I'm ready for when it goes and I won't be replacing it with another macbook. Enjoy, Erik Burggraaf > On Nov 27, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Why would you be on your last macbook? 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