How Many Macs Are Too Many Macs?

I really need to know this.Then there's the new 15-in MBP. I bought it in March,
I suspect I'm not alone: The more Mac computers Ionly to be pleasantly surprised when, a month later, my
get, the harder it is to part with them. I no sooner payemployer suddenly provided me with a 17-in MBP. I
for one than I buy another. And although I have sold ashould sell the 15-in. But, then again, that's mine. What if
few over the years, lately I'm turning into a Mac miser.work suddenly took back their 17-incher. And so the
You know those little old ladies that the newspapers15-in MBP sits in a carrycase. Just in case.
regularly write about that have 347 cats in theirI don't really use the big G5 and the two monitor setup
house?anymore either. But when it comes to listing them, I get
That's what I'm worried I may be like with my Macs.queasy. It'd be like selling a child. Or getting rid of my
I have a dual processor G5 with dual monitors, a 15-indog. I can't. i just can't.
PowerBook, a 15-in MacBook Pro, a G5 20-inch iMacThe iMac is easy. I have given that to my wife. No
and - thanks to work - a new 17-inch MacBook Pro.way would she part with that. She's now as hooked
There's no way I can use them all. But it's almoston Macs as I am.
impossible to part with any of them.Still, I wonder.... how many Macs are too many
I, for sure, should sell the PowerBook and, twice now,Macs?Mike Wendland is the personal technology
have started to post it on eBay or Craig's List, only tocolumnist for the Detroit Free Press and other national
chicken out at the last minute. The new Intelnewspapers and the host of the popular PC Mike
MacBooks don't work with my Verizon Broadbandsegment ( sent weekly to all 215 NBC-TV affiliates. His
Access PC card. The PowerBook does. So, I tellApple-Mac Web log is available at and chronicles the
myself, I may need it when I go on vacation in a fewlatest news, tips, trends and issues about Mac
weeks in case the place where we'll be stayingcomputers.
doesn't have Net access.