Some people like older systems better than the new ones and sometimes they're right - there's only so much you can do on new systems, you don't always need that much power to get the job done.

A writer, Ted Hodges, is proud to say that he does his writing on an Apple Lisa. Yes, that Apple Lisa, the machine that, while innovative for its graphics user interface, was priced ridiculously high at US $10,000.

Ted proclaims that there are some benefits of the Lisa that you just can't have on a newer computer system. On the Lisa, you don't have to save from time to time. You can turn off the computer anytime you want, even when there are programs running. It does not crash, and whenever there are power break outs, you don't have to worry about your work not being saved.

Of course, the Lisa has its quirks. It's very slow, it doesn't support color, it can't really use any other software except for the 7/7 suite, and it can't go online. But you can only expect so much from a system that came out during the '80s. Back then, the Lisa was a revolutionary thing, a powerful personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI), targeted towards business consumers.

Some may like working on old systems, some would rather die than use anything else than the latest computer build. But being able to use these machines for real work is really what matters; a thing that Ted Hodges just proved with his beloved Lisa.