About 6 months ago, we had to purchase a replacement computer for a PC that died at work. We tend to play a lot of “musical chairs” when it cmes to our hardware at STR. We’ll upgrade a machine that needs upgrading, or purchase something new, then we’ll move desktop and laptop computers around to achieve the best and most productive working situation for our employees (we don’t have a lot of employees, but we try to leverage what we have). When I had to make this most recent upgrade I suggested that we upgrade my laptop to a mid-level Mac and give my Windows PC to someone else. Since I’m managing our website, I’m doing more with graphics and media and that’s the kind of thing at which Apple’s products excel.

What I didn’t know was that I would fall in love with personal computing electronics again. In the past, I’ve spent days, maybe even weeks, troubleshooting networking, email, and general windows issues in the office. When I bought the Mac, it just worked... Sure I had to configure a few things, but they were easy to find and understand and implement. I even run Windows on my Mac along side the Mac operating system (this is heresy for some, but a necessity for me). Our office database software and one function on our website must be accessed through windows, but I spend as little time in Microsoft’s world as I can.

I’m such an Apple convert that I now own an iPhone and I’ve replace our home computer with a hand-me-down iMac. We’ve decided at the office that we won’t purchase any more Windows PCs because, although they’re a little less expensive, the time I spend troubleshooting them vs. the time spent troubleshooting the Macs is worth the extra expense (the gap is closing in that regard as well).

If anyone asks me about my iPhone or laptop or personal computers, I’m a top notch Mac evangelist. I’m more exited to talk about the Holy Apple than just about anything else right now...

Sometimes, I wish I was that enthused to talk about my faith... It’s easy to get a “fire in the belly” about temporal things. Sometimes it’s much more difficult to feel that same passion about the eternal. Perhaps it’s because the eternal is so hard to grasp... I can hold my iPhone, touch its screen and show people what it does and how it has changed my life (it actually has), but touching the transcendent... Not as easy...

I’m sure that we all have things in our lives that we are passionate about. The question is: do they really matter? Will they substantially affect our lives eternally?

Something to think about... And go buy a Mac