a new day

OK folks, I got this apple laptop for my husband for our anniversary and I've got to figure out how to use it before he gets home from DC. Katy kids me because this is supposed to be his present and she says I got it for myself. She's partially right. I wanted us to have a laptop to be able to take it on trips with us and I had to decide whether to get one with Vista or XP. There are very few laptops left with XP on them so I figured that if I had to get a new operating system anyway, I might as well switch over to the MAC. Emily has a big influence on me...She loves Apple and I figure she knows better than me. The biggest issue is whether or not Ron's word processing will stay in the same format he is using on his pc. He has to have this book turned into the publisher on WORD. We just have to figure out how to do that on this mac and everything else will be a fun learning curve...I hope. I havent found freecell or solitaire on this computer and that annoys me. Sometimes you just want to hum instead of sing with your brain. Is that an apt analogy for playing freecell? Works for me. Anyway, yesterday in the library a young lady came in with her laptop and wanted to print off of it. I said we had no way of doing that, so she wanted to copy her stuff onto one our computers and print it off from there. OK, good, no problem. Then when she had it hooked up, computer to computer, no disc, no thumbdrive, she couldn;t get the new Vista word processor to jive with our word on our XP systems. That made me think I have made a good choice. She ended up saving the work to notepad and putting it on our computer's notepad and it worked out all right. I'm sorry to say that I didn't get the whole process of what she had done...you know how it is on the desk...but I would have liked to know all the gyrations she actually went through since I'm sure it will come up again with everyone switching over to Vista. I guess I'd better do something other than screw around with this. More later! Carol