April 26, 2005

A New Day

I received a call this evening from a woman whose PC is sitting here on my computer room floor. It's a 550Mhz K6-2 running Windows 98, which isn't too bad with regard to performance. But this woman is starting her own business and is in need of a laptop. She was struggling with whether or not spend any money on the old machine (it needs some spyware removed and a new CD burner installed). Our conversation turned from the issue at hand to her concerns about learning a new OS (Windows XP) and her worries about greater virus and spyware exposure with a new broadband connection.

Before I knew it, a question was crossing my lips, a question I have never asked a paying customer, "Have you ever thought about buying a Mac?"

I have built and upgraded several hundred PCs in the past decade. They are familiar territory to me, and I could probably build one blindfolded. I built the PC on which I am typing this and I am very happy with it. I don't feel bad or guilty for building Wintel machines all these years, as most of those I built from scratch are still in use and doing good work. But by asking this question, I realized that I have now crossed the Rubicon of PC repair. To put it simply, if my customer buys a new iBook, I will never hear from her again.

No viruses. No spyware. Almost no learning curve. I'll never make a dime.

And that's OK. I'm becoming a mac fan and I don't even own one.

Go figure.

Posted by Matthew at April 26, 2005 07:15 PM
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Comments

I don;t think anyone cares about your alleged computer accomplishments. Stop blowing your own horn.

Posted by: schmo at April 29, 2005 11:55 PM

Maybe when you learn to use punctuation correctly, you can tell us about your mighty exploits.

Posted by: Matt_D [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 30, 2005 10:11 AM

The Mac argument again. Hey, where's Joe? This thread should be up to 60 by now.

Posted by: Erik at May 2, 2005 12:31 AM