Just a Few More Minutes

It was a year after I was married, just after I'd taken my first post-graduate job, when I first became unfaithful. Willfully so. I saw the opportunity -- cheap, quick and easy -- and I took it ruthlessly, with no thought of remorse. And it was very, very good.

That was the year I bought a PC, so I could play more arcade games, and cast aside my aging, or rather positively decrepit, Performa 600.

I've been through a few upgrades since then, self-installed or self-inflicted. But a couple of years ago after Shannon had to relinquish her grad-school laptop, we decided that we could afford one of our own. And since gaming wouldn't be a priority for the laptop, this one could be a Mac. Thus was the iBook G3 acquired.

The PC continues to be my principal computer; Gamer am I, through and through. But I could be on the road to spending most of my time in a Mac environment again, leaving the PC for only gaming. I picked up an IOGear KVM switch yesterday. Ably assisted by the ingenious screen spanning hack that bypasses the iBook's video mirroring limitation, the KVM switch allows me to use the iBook as a full desktop machine, sharing the Keyboard, Video (monitor) and Mouse with my PC.

Earlier today I turned on the Mac while the PC was off. I started surfing the web before I realized how unearthly quiet the den was. Being a laptop, the iBook doesn't have case fans -- no white noise.

It's good to have a desktop Mac again; it only cost me $70 to have one.