A Mac has invaded my house!

[MineralMan]

32. Yah, that sort of proved my point.

You can take it apart, but there's nothing fixable inside. That's intentional. Like most of this stuff, if it works for a week, it will keep working until it's obsolete and you want a new one. I can't remember the last time I opened up the box on my desktop PC. I know what's in there, but I don't need to. With new PCs at about $500 that are capable of anything I want to do, I don't care.

This new Mac Mini will just sit there and run. When it's obsolete, a new one will take its place, but the old one will probably still be perfectly usable.

It's like the new cars. You buy one, drive it around, take it in for its regular services and never do anything to it at all. After five years, you take it back to the dealer and drive off with a new one. I've been an auto mechanic, but when I open the hood of my current car, I look at it, check the oil and other stuff and close the hood again. I'll never apply a wrench to anything under there.

That's good, and bad, too. I used to enjoy working on my cars. On the other hand, now, I don't have to.

Stuff gets better and better.