Travesty

This is not appropriate for a blog post but it has changed my essence to more of a blue aura so I am going to share it anyway.

Many people go through hard times in their lives and don't want to share it in public because it is so painful.  But I have heard it said that blogging your troubles can ease your worries so please forgive me for sharing something so raw and close to my heart.

My company took away my Macbook Pro and provided me with a Lenovo.

There. I said it.

People can argue that a PC is really comparable to a Mac, that they are so EXPENSIVE etc.  But to quote Michael Scott, do you know what is even more expensive?  Ignorance.

To name just a few of my personal challenges:

--My new machine is racist.  There is no way on a this laptop (other than converting your uiojklm to a ten key) to create accent marks on the web.  People say that you can do it yet no one, no forum, no helper person has been able to tell me how to do this.  Convert your keyboard it says.  Well you know what? I don't need to convert, YOU need to catch up Lenovo.  On a Mac it is opt e, ALL the time.  There is no alt+130, or alt+164 or alt+8796246

--The trackpad is from you know where.  They made it all bumpy for some kind of tactile response, but the think doesn't actually work--the scrolly feature? Yah, lame.  It does work with a rolling mouse so then I have to carry around an extra 24/7.  They threw in that red dot looking thing but it offers nothing but a Hinduiy feeling.

--The search feature, while far superior to the old version of Windows, only allows you to search in that ONE folder, not your whole machine by default like in my old (three years old) Mackypoo.

--The cursor just kind of has a mind of its own.  It does not bend to my will and half the time it only pretends that it is around where you think it is but when you start typing you have jumped the page.  Wha?

I could go on and on but I will end with two essential key points:

-The Lenovo machine I have is supposed to be highly reviewed, fast, etc.  But guess what? the outside of this machine looks exactly the same as the model designed SEVEN years ago.  Catch up people!  This is the age of design.

--When the machine is closed, I can't turn it over and push a button to see my battery life.  SUCH a ripoff.

Oh and btw, this machine broke the first week I had it and I have to open it with a credit card to get the spring to open.  The "TLC package" that our IT team bought for me to "make up for the fact that I won't be able to use the genius bar" has been unable to address the matter for three weeks.  Three weeks.  Backorder.  And they didn't even check it out to see if I needed that particular piece.  If this were an Apple product, I would have had the entire machine replaced with a big fat sorry from a very adorable twenty something apple sales guy within minutes.  A profuse apology even. 

So once again, please accept my apology for sharing something so intimate and believe me there are a lot of details I left out. 

I would appreciate if if you wouldn't try to talk me out of my passion for Apple, Inc. by referencing their bullying of Adobe or how they have now become more capitalist profiteers than Microsoft whom they previously accused of being overly capitalistic and profiteerish.  I don't really care about their politics, I just want my machine back.