"When you are stuck in a traffic jam with a Porsche, all you do is burn more gas in idle. Scalability is about building wider roads, not about building faster cars." — Steve Swartz

Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy PCs

Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy PCs

Why I Told My Sister to Buy a Mac In my circle of friends, I am well-known as a computer geek. As a geek, people are drawn to me with all their mundane computer questions. I get calls all the time from people asking me how to speed up their system or what to do when their hard drive crashes. I tell them I am really a web designer and not a computer technician. I even have a T-shirt that says,...

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Short and Sweet!

Short and Sweet!

Can’t we all just get along? I used to be a big Windows XP guy, and I am thoroughly familiar with XP. For the majority of my life, I used Windows exclusively. In my business, I often repair Windows computers. A few months ago Ryan began to talk to me about Macs. I was like, “Come on, a computer is a computer! They all break and have problems…What makes a computer is the hardware it...

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Mac Sales Pitch

Mac Sales Pitch

My name is Jacob. And I’m a Mac-a-holic. I’m addicted to my little silver MacBook Pro. I know I’m addicted because I took this test I saw in “PC World” magazine. Top Symptoms of Computer AddictionAll your friends have an @ symbol in their names…Check. You haven’t logged in for two hours. You kind of start to twitch…Check. Your car stalls and you immediately...

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