Over the 23 years Macs have become bigger, faster and more important to people for their livelihood, education and just plain fun!. Support and advice has become more important too. Especially late night and weekends when, like many other small business owners, entrepreneurs and creative content providers, the real work gets done. Over the last 15 years in addition to providing strategic and practical advice I have been providing Mac hardware solutions that are highly customized to the work being done.
Many earlier generation Macs provide a better, more cost effective and reliable solution to the job at hand and "bumping down" older Macs to less demanding work offsets much of the cost of continual upgrades. We offer Canada's best choice for Macs. The Intels are simply brilliant machines - that said don't overlook the G5s as there are some advantages and value for money is superb. Except for portables G4s are getting a bit long in the tooth for any professional work tho we love G4 eMacs and iMacs for kids and cottage. We adore MacMinis for many purposes.
Generally the move to Intel has launched Apple into an entirely new world of mainstream work both Mac and cross platform. We can guide you in both.
CHOICE IS IMPORTANT. Finding the appropriate Mac solution for the job at hand AT THE RIGHT PRICE is what we do best.
I've been involved in upper end hi-tech home entertainment for over 35 years now, Macs the last 23, and still love the toys and the new tools and experiences good technology can provide. I was stunned by Apple's "1984" commercial - and you know what - they were right on the money!! It still sends shivers when I watch it on a good screen with full sound effects. Jobs has a vision and it's back at Apple. He has always had a "feel" for what the Mac community is moving towards and the ability to concieve and execute products that serve the community well. Apple stumbles from time to time on new product which is one of the reasons we like to offer the wide range of proven Macs that we do.
I'm a DAD with two kids, a daughter 19 off to University now and working coop and a son just turned 17 and loving his new licence and motocross bike. We always travel with a MacBook for both general entertainment, music and digital photography.
We also really enjoy console gaming - the kids surf the net for the latest game info and McKenzie really has the reflexes we all THINK we still have to beat the latest boss...once in a while I'll beat him at a racing game but he's the hotshot of the family. Meghan is the strategist, not many situations she can't work her way through.....and then there's the Net to fall back on. RPGs like Final Fantasy have provided hours of engaging and mind-stretching fun for all of us. Currently the Wii has provided hours of family laughter and the PSIII is amazing in HD.
Was a pilot - high performance sailplanes, love fishing but have not done a lot lately. Got back in to motorcycling with my son - we enjoy going to Motopark in Ontario - excellent facility near Owen Sound - real friendly atmosphere and top notch facilities. Widely travelled I'm looking forward to spending increasing time in Western Cape South Africa each year.
I'm a duplicate bridge player with many years experience but too little time but I finally earned my LifeMaster designation... The experience has payed off in the last couple years with several wins and near misses in Swiss Team events at regional tournaments. The bridge columns and magazines keep me updated and challenged but I've yet to play online.
I'm avid reader of good SciFi and Fantasy- Gibson especially and just about everything else, both kids seem to have inherited the love for reading adventures..Megs taking English at U of Ottawa. Love movies and have been an HiDef advocate since 1982.
Spend many hours online in discussion forums.
My life long interest and vocation in science and technology combined with a degree in English and Philosophy make for an ecletic headspace. I really like A&E and The Discovery Channel, Wired and Discover magazines, sushi - especially fresh on the Tokyo docks at 6 am., working at night, bass fishing, Frank Lloyd Wright and all good design, perfectly done café au lait and Macs.
Heros and influences in no particular order
Arthur Koestler - for explaining the world to me in human terms - Act of Creation and Ghost in the Machine had a huge influence on my world view
Albert Einstein - his "exercise in imaginaton" resulting in the general theory and underpinning quantum physics was truly awe inspiring
Ayn Rand - for celebrating the individual and the power of human creativity - The Fountainhead" is based on Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright - a renegade and fighter for his own vision - truly born ahead of his time - Falling Water is a "must vist" for anyone loving good design
Steve Jobs - well you probably know why
Harry S Truman - for showing how to fight and win when everyone doubts you and for stepping into a huge role at the end of WWII and doing a fine job. His biography won a Pulitzer prize for it's author and should inspire anyone who admires hard work and vision.
Enrico Fermi -pure genius who along with Robert Oppenhiemer introduced the Atomic Age
Marie Curie for risking her life to get the atomic age started
Edwin H. Armstrong - the treatment of this inventor by the US establishment was criminal - he should stand with Edison and Marconi - instead he's almost unknown
Nikolai Tesla -
Mac to the Future!!
Computers for the best of us.....