Macs - A quick word on Apple, Mac computers. Yes, they are expensive. A Windows PC that will be viable for the next 5-7 years will cost around $700. A 14 inch Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD Drive (my recommended specs for any new computer) is at least $1600. It depends on how you use your computer. Most of us are just putzing around. What you get in a Mac is sturdiness, reliability, the best support number of all consumer products, a power cord that isn’t made to snap off, and years of unremarkable usage. New Macs are however, no longer upgradable with memory and hard drive space, so that is totally stupid and unredeemable. The next time you bring me your computer for virus removal, an annoying printer install, or when Windows updates go wrong, ask, and I'll give you my Mac rap.
Don’t take this as me saying that I think we should break up!
SSD Drives
Buy no new computer with anything other than an SSD or M2 drive for storage.
The most valuable upgrade to come to consumer computing since I started business in 2000 are solid state drives. They are essentially a usb thumb drive, or flash drive shaped to look like the hard drive in your computer. Old drives consisted of magnetic spinning disks and a quickly moving laser arm to read them. Solid state drives are just circuit boards with no moving parts. They are so much faster than your old hard drive that you can put them into 3-5 yr old computers and make them run, in most cases, better than a new computer with a mechanical drive.
If after 2016 someone tries to sell you a computer without an SSD drive, look them in the eye and say, "why do you hate me?"
If your new Windows 11 computer does not come with an SSD hard drive it is like they are selling you a car with a carburetor, a 3 cylinder engine, and tires made of gummy bears.
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