The Macbook Pro replacement, a small but very usable Lenovo X120e, has become a great companion. Ultimately, however, I found it's unusable for a single reason: its screen is too small. I obtained a larger machine after a month, a T520 Lenovo, which is at least twice as heavy, but has a far larger screen that allows me to have many items open visibly and usably at once. It is with great reluctance that I now carry a machine around that weighs approximately as much as the MacBook Pro that it replaced. But I do. Work production mandates it. The small Lenovo 120e, oddly, gets packed as well. It's just too fun.

Apple's power cord, with its magnetic connector is also superior to Lenovo's power supply and cords. I'm waiting to find a full-search text method for indexed document files, too. I'm close to a solution, but nothing yet. Otherwise, I'm out of the Apple sphere of influence, and what some call the Reality Distortion field.

Apple, like other vendors, now has vast economic ecosystems that are building data empires of analytics, and dossiers of their clientele. I'm no longer a customer, I'm a profit center.

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