I stayed up until midnight last night noodling around with my new laptop. Justine is usually my egg timer for when I’ve been in front of the computer too long. Most nights she wanders into the office and reminds me that I should go to bed at some point.
Last night she left me to my own devices, pun intended.
I’ve finally gotten the wireless home network up and running; linking my PC, external hard drive, Apple Hi-Fi and laptop. Now I can sit on the couch with my laptop and access files from my external hard drive in the office and stream music to the Hi-Fi across the room – all at the same time.
Here’s the funny part. I know nothing about networking.
Apple has made it very easy to network your whole house with a few simple set-up screens in the installation software for their wireless devices. I ran into a little trouble last night, but after a 20 minute call with Apple, I finished the setup and did a little jig today.
If you are considering “making the switch” and aren’t quite sure whether or not you will grok the whole ordeal, let me assure you that it’s pretty easy. I had a puzzled look on my face (furrowed brow, chin scratching, cheek-biting, etc) yesterday for a few hours until it all started to make sense.
