Today I sold both of Harwoods’ remaining 20″ white iMacs, those which have been superseded by the new hotness.

Nothing remarkable here, besides my ability to shill out-of-date machines (which is especially remarkable when you consider that the brand new ones were right next to the old ones). What is remarkable, however, is the machine that one of these customers was upgrading from. For you see, prior to today the gentleman in question had been using an electronic typewriter for all his document-processing needs.

Seriously, you get all sorts buying computers; a young lady today quite earnestly asked me if a Macbook would have enough room for all her essays, because she planned on writing rather a lot over the course of her degree. This one actually threw me more than the electronic typewriter, to tell you the truth, since this was pure bloody-minded ignorance. Then again, she was studying history.