I am the proud helper of yet another lost soul, another Realtor has come back to a sensible computer environment, she bought a few Apples.

After helping my friend Pam setup her iMac and getting Parallels working on it so that she could still access the lamentable Tempo MLS (only works or Windows!), I welcomed another friend (name withheld) to Apple.

It was interesting to see another Realtor fed up with Window’ security issues, constant reboots, crashes, freezes and expensive upgrade path, she finally gave up and bought a MacBook and a beautiful iMac. Setting them up on the wireless network was a cinch. As soon as I knew the Verizon wireless router password, both laptop and iMac picked up the wireless. After that, I thought I would have a hard time getting them to recognize the HP all in one printer connected to the router, but Bonjour worked as brilliantly as its supposed to. It picked up the printer on both machines and installed it without any fuss. No looking for drivers, no Windows nonsense, just the way a computer should work.

No wonder I rarely worked with Apple back in my IT consulting days. It works just so darn well there is little to do. I was blessed to have Windows inherent instabilities, Dell’s wonderful quirks. Just those two alone was the bulk of my business.

So welcome Realtors who are tired and fed up with that system that has been crammed down your throat. Treat yourself to a system that works in an elegant way.

Maybe I should become an Apple spokes person…