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[roni]

Apple buying plans and thoughts

2006 is going to be an Apple buying year in the roni household. As always there are some decisions to be made.

Computer - currently have one of the intitial 17" iLamps. That is it. Ms. Roni does not compute at home much, but that will change some this year. She has a couple of free-lance gigs, one of them pretty sizeable. She will do part of that at her office, where they are upgrading hardware this year. Those gigs will be done mostly in Illustrator and InDesign. Ms Roni does not require a speed demon computer and a behemoth tower does not fit in with her sense of what is good and beautiful.

Mr. Roni wants portability, a home wireless network, and a Mactel. Would prefer dual boot capability as he already owns a copy of Windows XP and could probably get virus/spyware protection stuff for free from work.

Without knowing more details about the product roadmap, something that will probably be partially revealed in January, it looks like things are pointing to an iBook and a 20" iMac along with some sort of wireless router and a wireless thingie for the 17" iLamp, which would likely become the music box and Mr. Roni's computer when he wanted more monitor space.

The Airport Express/AirTunes thing interests me, but I need to learn more about it.

Ron