Beside Myself Because I Finally Made the Switch
Posted by mom2mom on January 11, 2009
I’ve been beside myself with joy today, because my DH acquired an iMac for me. It’s a used G5, but it leaves my former Sony VAIO Pentium 4 in the dust. My ol’ VAIO had been upgraded to Windows Vista, and it actually handled it pretty well, without any noticeable bugs, but it was getting slow and it was quickly proving itself insufficient for web development. Suffice it to say I was over it. I’ve been a fan of Macs for 14 yrs, having worked with them in a previous job for 5-1/2 yrs, but family economics hasn’t allowed us the luxury of a new Mac yet, and the bulk of our computer business is working on Windows systems, so we’ve been content with keeping PC’s in front of us. This isn’t my first Mac though. I actually had an old beige G3 that I got off Ebay that was my personal email and browsing machine back in 02-03. The logic board went out on it, but it was fun while it lasted. I also had an old blueberry iBook G3 that we replaced the logic board on (also courtesy of Ebay) that I used a lot when my oldest dd was a baby in ‘03-’04 and when I was pregnant with my son in ‘05 (I used it mostly in bed when I was cuddling with my baby dd or when I needed to be off my feet when I was preggo).
What of the VAIO? I’m trying to install Linux as a server on it because I need to test a CRM/ERP software suite for a business client. For you non-techie readers (I admit it, I’m a geek girl) that’s Customer Relationship Management/Enterprise Resource Planning, i.e. a suite that covers practically all the back-office for a retail/service business. In this case, I’m testing a solution for a business that has two restaurants and food markets that also produces foods and distributes them to grocers and sells online.
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