When I was thinking about how I am going to achieve my blogging goals for 2017, I knew I'd need to set myself up for success.  One easy way to do that was to make sure I had all the right ingredients for optimum workflow.  I needed a laptop for three basic reasons: (1) to have a way to easily write anywhere and anytime, (2) one location for all my photos and photo editing, and (3) to be able to get my work done quickly.  Based on a quick internet search, the chromebook looked like a viable option. A 2006 Macbook (that's right) is the most recent laptop I've owned.  Not a Macbook Pro, just a plain ole ten-year-old Macbook.  This laptop was still operating pretty well, but in the past couple months, a few of the keys suddenly stopped working.  I actually had to plug in a keyboard just to ... read more