It's a little heavy, a little cumbersome and, just occasionally, my wife addresses it in stern terms.
No, it's not a child or a doberman. It's her Dell XPS 15 laptop[1].
I confess I picked it up once and was a little surprised that people do this on a regular basis. This thing was heavier than a conversation with a zealot priest.
But my wife's a scientist who does serious work and, apparently in the scientific world, serious work happens on big Windows machines.
Also: Apple loses the plot with iPhone XR[2]
So, given that her birthday is approaching, I went to Best Buy[3] to see whether one of its fine objective salespeople could recommend something better. And perhaps lighter.
My visits to Best Buy have always been edifying. The employees are always prepared to chat without prejudice. Why, one even tried to break a MacBook in front of me.[4]
So, when a salesman asked if I had any questions, I wondered if he could recommend something better for my wife.
I thought he might suggest something from Lenovo or even Microsoft. Instead, he instantly drifted to the HP section. First, he suggested a Spectre 15[5].
This seemed to me a quite nifty thing that folds this way, that way and several other ways.
"It's got the Intel Core i7," explained the salesman. "And you can use it to do just about everything."
He showed me and he was right. Had I been of a Windows mindset, this would have certainly moved me.
The alternative, said the salesman,