Dear Friends,

It’s Kali, writing this from beneath about three feet of snow. Well, not really, but buzz about Winter Storm Nemo (snowstorms get names now?) is high, and we expect to see a couple of feet here in Vermont. Don was in Cupertino earlier this week meeting with their Board of Directors, and he flew back to the east coast just in time to catch a Celtics game on his birthday (yesterday) and prep for the impending storm.

Winter in Vermont is shaping up to be more traditional than last year, in that we’ve seen steady snowfall and colder temperatures thus far. Even though living in New England means we should all be prepared for driving in this kind of weather, I’m grateful for the ability to work remotely when conditions are too bad to warrant driving 20 miles. This got me thinking about how much easier it is now for people to stay connected without having to be in the same place. How many of you work from home in your daily job? What do you use to do it?

We still have a great selection on refurbished and used laptops (err, “notebooks”, as Apple likes to say) in stock, from the basic MacBooks that start at $699.99 to the professionally-minded 17-inch MacBook Pros at $1249.99 (plus, there are some 15-inch models thrown in, too — see everything here.) Take your work (or play!) mobile.

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