City life is pretty nice. Wander around, taking in sights, stores, and people. Find a place to pay for a seat and a coffee, drink and take in more sights and sounds. A cappuccino where the coffee cuts through the softness of the milk in just the right way.
And I can easily bring this amazing typing machine everwhere I go, ready at a second's notice. Quiet, light, cool, bright, powerful.
Someone else in the immediate family is saddled with some type of Dell machine for work, and except for possibly a certain plastic ruggedness which makes you worry very little about bumping it, it all seems just worse in every concievable way.
These days, it is popular to talk about Ipads as great hardware being let down by software. They could do and be so much more if just the software had the bandwith and ambition to match.
The average work PC, on the other hand, seems to promise very little and deliver it in spades. A choir of angels singing? No, it is a very small fan spinning up in panic. Or simply the reaction "Damn, I did not turn it off before putting it in my bag. I need to take it out and turn it off, otherwise it will eat through the entire battery." My Apple laptops never get turned off during their active service life. Development machines tend to need regular charging of course, so I semi-frequently kill a bunch of development and debug processes and services at the end of the work day, but the whole machine? No, they should just be ready when called for.
I could do this all day.
So could this computer.
(Also: I am connected through my outrageous phone just lying there on the table in the middle of a shopping centre. I get 100 Mbit down and 55 up, as if that was the most natural thing in the world.)