And Then What?

My friend Vinnie is considering buying a MacBook Air. His current laptop has given him years of productive use but, as with all things technological, eventually you have to upgrade. Vinnie knows that he should buy "too much" computer. That is, he should go heavy on the RAM and make sure that his hard drive has oodles (my word) of space. Better to be ahead of the curve.

A new and more powerful computer will certainly increase the speed at which he can surf the net. He'll have a more current operating system. Vinnie will be able to load applications and use more of them concurrently--although in today's browser-based world many erstwhile computer programs have been effectively replaced with new tabs in a browser.