What?
I bought a $3k Powerbook in the early 90s and it bankrupted me.
When it was essentially unusable (out of the box) I went back to CompUSA to buy the “SPECIAL” screwdriver you needed to open it up to install more memory, they told me that would void the warranty.
How old are you, Orpheus?
Old enough that I started on computers when you input data on punch cards.
With Apple you get what you pay for. My wife is still using the first MBP that I bought in 2009. Will have to retire because the hardware cannot support the latest OS and is several versions behind.
That old, no respect, so full of yourself and no wisdom whatsoever:
“Lost in the material world”
Yup. You did well self-diagnosing.
Apple is a bit pricy upfront; no real argument there. But long term cost comparison with Windows is more debatable. Mac OS is very stable; updates done at YOUR time of choosing. And it is integrated with many many apps.
A neat thing about DT is that it explores your dataset and detects connections between files that might be otherwise missed. It is NOT perfect, but is very good. Spend a couple hours on the DT forum and see how people use DT. I know there are a few postings from lawyers describing their patterns of work. Scrivener is a great writing tool that complements DT exceptionally well, and an incredibly flexible way of seeing your output.
Gosh. What a sin. Thank you.
Lots of people do it.
When prices come up, I like to point out that the first three or four Windows computers I bought cost close to $5,000 each, and they were less powerful than my current iPhone. Maybe less powerful than my first iPhone.
True - but as an organisationally challenged historian of medicine, whatever my cascading frustrations with Mac (hardware) Devonthink and Tinderbox keep me faithful.
The first Radio Shack System (including 4 external floppy drives) that I got in 1979 cost around $4000 (About $15,000 in 2022). It only had 48k of RAM. There was no compilable computer language like “C.” It was “stone age” computing. 
Exactly. Every modern computer is a fantastic bargain.
Apple is currently designing an all in the keyboard foldable computer.
Not quite related, but I felt like saying it anyways.
The concept of portability is about to change.
I remember my first computer, a Texas Instrument (which had no mouse and would save my Frogger game progress on an audio tape) was exactly that. An everything in the keyboard computer. But huge and heavy. And definitely not foldable.
