Yesterday I did something that was a tad bit, or more than a tad bit, painful. I bought a new computer a week after buying a new computer. It sounds crazy, but it was necessary. That doesn’t mean it was any less painful. You see I was one payment away from paying off all the credit card debt for Stable Hands and I might still be in that zone as the computers should be on next months statement and not the one due on the 19th. Still. That is a lot of expense in a seven days period and it all started with a backache.
I had been working on my laptop sitting in a parlor chair. When I had a creative idea or wanted to do deep number dives I had to sit in that chair for a couple hours and at the end of it my back would be in pain. I was also getting a bit frustrated with the lack of a mouse on my laptop and the small screen. It is a great laptop and very flexible, but I needed something different at home.
So, when I went to Office Depot to get a desk chair I looked at computers. Then I went onto Amazon and purchased one. Plus a monitor, a mechanical keyboard, and a wireless mouse (which I also should hook to my laptop). Then on Thursday I ventured up to the office to use or 2015 Mac. It didn’t do anything. I set there staring at it, it stared back at me, and wouldn’t even load a simple webpage. I quit in frustration and now can’t even remember what I wanted to do.
That was when I realized the company books and scheduling are being done on a computer that barely functions. I had heard about the benefits of the Apple M4 Mini and decided that is what we needed. So, off to the Apple store I went. It was there I nearly suffered a heart attack when they told me the price of the suggested monitor and then I asked about the iMac. In that discussion the salesperson or genius or whatever they’re called these days told me the benefit of the Mini is it can be hooked to any monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
Off to Best Buy to find my good friend Ajay. Ajay had sold me a webcam earlier in the week and now I needed him again. This time for a full setup. Because he is my man he showed me a Samsung Osprey 27″ monitor that was half off and an open box deal on an Apple magic keyboard. At the end of the day I still probably spent close to $1300 a week after spending $1100 for my Lenovo and $400 for my desk chair, but I am hoping all of this increases our productivity and has at least a marginal ROI.
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