How Many Macs Are Too Many Macs?

I really need to know this.doesn't have Net access.
I suspect I'm not alone: The more Mac computers IThen there's the new 15-in MBP. I bought it in March,
get, the harder it is to part with them. I no sooneronly to be pleasantly surprised when, a month later,
pay for one than I buy another. And although I havemy employer suddenly provided me with a 17-in MBP.
sold a few over the years, lately I'm turning into aI should sell the 15-in. But, then again, that's mine.
Mac miser.What if work suddenly took back their 17-incher. And
You know those little old ladies that the newspapersso the 15-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
house?setup anymore either. But when it comes to listing
That's what I'm worried I may be like with my Macs.them, I get queasy. It'd be like selling a child. Or
I have a dual processor G5 with dual monitors, agetting rid of my dog. I can't. i just can't.
15-in PowerBook, a 15-in MacBook Pro, a G5 20-inchThe iMac is easy. I have given that to my wife. No
iMac and - thanks to work - a new 17-inch MacBookway would she part with that. She's now as hooked
Pro.on Macs as I am.
There's no way I can use them all. But it's almostStill, I wonder.... how many Macs are too many
impossible to part with any of them.Macs?Mike Wendland is the personal technology
I, for sure, should sell the PowerBook and, twicecolumnist for the Detroit Free Press and other
now, have started to post it on eBay or Craig's List,national newspapers and the host of the popular PC
only to chicken out at the last minute. The new IntelMike segment ( sent weekly to all 215 NBC-TV
MacBooks don't work with my Verizon Broadbandaffiliates. His Apple-Mac Web log is available at and
Access PC card. The PowerBook does. So, I tellchronicles the latest news, tips, trends and issues
myself, I may need it when I go on vacation in aabout Mac computers.
few weeks in case the place where we'll be staying