I got myself a late birthday present on Friday. It was the one day of the entire year when Apple has a sale. I went a little wild.
I got three items.
The iPad Air was a gift from my parents. We had all agreed that it would be better to wait for the sale instead of getting it on the appropriate day.
The Apple TV was so that I could better use my TV. Now that the video store is gone, I need to research alternate ways to get movies.
the iMac was a weird purchase. I have been very happy with my MacBook Pro, and I saw no need to replace it. However, 95% of the time, it sits on my desk and never moves. That defeats the point of being a laptop. But there was the 5% (and I’m being generous with that percentage) that I did move it.
In this day and age though, it should be easy to have the same files available on two different computers. My logic was that I could have the iMac be my desktop computer, but all my files would be available on my laptop when I needed it.
I don’t know if my logic is sound.
When I first started using my iMac, part of the problem was the screen was so big. With my laptop, small screen that I could focus on. It didn’t feel like a big commitment to use it. Now I have to deal with peripheral vision size screen. Was I getting a headache?
Then I realized that my email would not be easy to share between computers. I hadn’t set up to be IMAP, so that magic is unavailable to me. Maybe it will be easy, and I just haven’t figured out how. Something to look forward to.
On the plus side, it has forced me to upgrade to the latest operating system. I hadn’t done that on my laptop because one stupid financial program would stop working. A program that has 2002 in the title. It was time to move on, and this has forced that on me.

Geez, it is like working in front of a movie screen.