How Much Extra Junk Do You Have On Your Mac?

Friday, June 6, 2008 | Tips and Tricks | Read or Post a Comment

Junk I’m a gadget and junkaholic. My Mac carries more utilities, tools, accessories than exist in some nations of the European Union.

Housecleaning? Why bother? Organize cables? I don’t think so. Add a new gadget to my Mac? Yes, I jump at the opportunity to make myself more productive.

At least, that’s the excuse I use. I’m more productive when I have more stuff attached to my Mac. I’m more secure, more comfortable, and, usually, more poor.

After awhile, I’m time poor,.... (excerpted).

4 Reader Comments

Victor Niemi said:

It’s the American way, U gotta have the latest and the baddest.

Krishna said:

It’s very tempting to buy the latest and greatest. I’ve been that way with hard drives - collecting more than half a dozen over the last few years. When faced with buying yet another hard drive for backing up my MacBook Pro, the temptation was to buy a new external for back-ups. Then I realized I had a perfectly serviceable 120GB drive purchased in 2002 that had only 12GB of data on it.

I backed the 12GB off the drive, reformatted it and now happily using it with the MacBook Pro. Money saved: $100.

MrSin said:

I agree with Hamish, this is what we do as Mac enthusiasts, and I see it as perfectly normal. I only wish I could afford All the goodies. I did add the new aluminum keyboard to my non-aluminum 24-inch Intel iMac, as well as a mighty mouse to my 14-inch iBook. I also received an ipod shuffle as a gift from my daughter and simply had to have the Airport Extreme base station . See? Perfectly normal.

Hamish said:

Sounds perfectly normal to me….

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