I am still old-fashioned, or maybe just old, and I still use a dumb cell phone. A cell phone to me is a necessity these days, and I am amazed whenever I think back to pre-cell phone days and how we ever got along without them!

The most troubling thing to me about Apple products is their price. Nothing from Apple is affordable, it seems to me. I am typing this on my MacBook Pro 17" laptop. It is a beautiful, powerful machine, but it cost me $2700. That is outrageous for a laptop, but I thought it would help me to learn about Macs and therefore position me in a place where I could help others with Macs who could use a little assistance. I find my Mac to be so foreign to me, compared to any Windows machine, but I am learning. There are very few similarities between Windows and OS/X. My Mac seems to have been built for left-handed people, and I am not left-handed. However, my Mac is right now my go-to laptop and I really am impressed with it. It is very fast, stable, and very easy to use (although the left-handedness of it still drives me nuts!). The 8 hour battery life is nothing short of amazing to me, a guy who was used to having 2 and maybe 3 hour battery life on my Windows machines.

So along comes another new iPhone. Ho-hum. It's apparently not even different enough from the iPhone 4 to warrant having its own unique name. People were expecting the iPhone 5 but instead got the iPhone 4S. I shall not be writing any product reviews of it very soon. Once one bites the bullet and comes up with the money for the phone, he or she is faced with the minimum charge of $70 a month to use the darn thing. As with the iPad, I would love to have one, but I'd rather not have to spend the money to get there, not in this economy. This review comes from pcworld.com.

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