The agony o f choice, so the saying goes. The laptop already has nearly five years under its belt – maybe it really is the right time to start looking for a new one?Īn iPad, perhaps, or maybe even one of these hip new Macbook Pros with a touch bar? Or one of the new Microsoft Surface Books or maybe even a Surface Studio all-in-one PC would be a real eye-catcher. Beyond that, he wouldn’t necessarily choose a machine like that at all if he still had three wishes left.īut first of all, since no fairy ever came along with three wishes to give (at least not yet), and secondly, that it’s been a few years since the author last believed in Santa Claus and thirdly, that he doesn’t know anybody else who could make such wishes come true, this question is largely irrelevant.īe that as it may: The hard disk has been making some really strange sounds for a while and the excessively loud fan noise has been getting on the author’s tender nerves for a long time by now. OK, to be honest, the author never got a Mac or PC as a present, be it for Christmas or any other occasion. Christmas is just around the corner, and every year, the author of this article asks himself the question: “am I getting a new Mac?”