So…my new toy arrived yesterday afternoon, and I got to play with it for the first time last night. Obviously, its too soon to gush too much, but I will say that, without a doubt, the out-of-box-experience was nice, and the first six hours with it were very nice…and maybe most importantly, stable. I was able to watch videos, listen to music, read documents…SCROLL…all without a single problem or crash. VERY refreshing indeed.

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Yesterday’s drama was enough to push me over the edge.

I worked from home for a few hours, and then when I was done, I had some documents in an e-mail that I needed to print out. So I downloaded the documents and tried to print them out, and nothing came out of the printer. I checked the print queue, and found the ever-so-helpful message: “Print - error”. Oh…yeah…duh…of course. There was a print error. So all I have to do is fix it, right?

Well, to make a long story short, I spent the next four hours trying to get my computer to print those documents with no luck at all. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. I will deal with this Dell PC (piece of crap) no longer.

So tonight I did it. I called up MacMall and ordered a MacBook Pro. I hope to have it by the end of the week. When it gets here, I’m fairly seriously considering sending this laptop back to Dell and challenging someone there to actually use this thing for one month, and then try to tell me that there’s nothing wrong with it. I can’t remember EVER having more problems with a computer than I’ve had with this one…and I’ll NEVER deal with Dell again.

So yes…I’m flippin’ the switch. From everything I’ve heard and read in coming to the decision to do this, the grass really is greener on the other side. I can’t wait to feel it under my feet.

December 27th, 2007 at 7:05am, my first son was born. His name is Phoenix. He was 21 inches long and weighed 8 pounds and one ounce. He has his own web site. Did you expect any less? I’m now working on putting Proverbs 22:6 to memory. Thank You Jesus.