She, on the other hand, was downright disgruntled when I hooked up the computer without bothering to connect the printer. I just can't win with this woman. I don't take back anything I said about the Mac, even though a few people took the time to point out that all but one or two of the peeves I mentioned are easily solved, most of them by using Now Utilities. I have Now Utilities, but I find it hard to accept that my computer wants 10MB of RAM before running any real applications. Pack, and I don't like having to purchase Now Utilities to get the operating system I want, even if it is bundled with my computer.
Nothing is free.
On the good side, Apple astounded all of the analysts a few days ago by posting a decent profit this quarter while everybody was predicting a major loss. I've always said that you pay more but get more with Apple, but this is the first time you've been able to pay less and still get more. I used to tell my wife that I picked our townhouse in Minneapolis because the rental office always had fresh Otis Spunkmeyer cookies waiting in the clubhouse. I was only half kidding. I also told her that I picked the builder to build our first dream home here in Dallas because they always had fresh Otis Spunkmeyer cookies waiting in the model home's kitchen.