How do you adapt to new technologies in our world? Do you crave the newest innovation to the point that you’re waiting three days outside of Best Buy for the newest devise? Upon receiving that brand new device, do you run home and show all of your friends/family members how awesome it is and then do you find yourself back in line at Best Buy buying the newest upgrade of the same device you just bought four months prior?
I have several friends that fit into this category to a tee. As for me, I like to declare that I buy new innovations based on practicality. I know I fall into the majority of most Americans in this case and I can prove it through the bell curve. Being that, the person that I described in the opening of this post falls in the first few percent of the graph, whereas for me, I am comfortably in the middle.
By me saying “practical”, I mean that I buy new technologies on the basis of need vs. want. Sure I would love to have the newest Nikon SLR digital camera, but based on price and my current position in life, it is not a practical device for me to own. I am not a professional fashion photographer. But, when my amazing Dell Dimension 2350 desktop took a turn for the worse, I knew it was time to invest in a new computer to finish out my college career and to help me embark on my professional career. I decided to stick with Dell, since I was already a preferred customer, and I knew I wanted a laptop due to all the traveling I would be doing the next year. The laptop has a great history beginning in the late 70’s, but it’s popularity really started to take shape in the mid 90’s. By the year 2000, the laptop market sky-rocketed. Before I had purchased my laptop, I told myself, “It’s the year 2007, and I am one of the few remaining college students with out one.” It just seemed like the right fit.
So, I’ve had this Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop computer for several months now, and I almost felt like I adopted to a new innovation quite earlier than my norm when I decided to upgrade to Windows Vista. Woo…my stats on the bell curve just went up!
