How I Chose My Mac

I got my first laptop in Spring of 2005. It was a PC. I just couldn’t wait until I got it. Back then, all I wanted was a laptop. I really didn’t care what kind it was. I was very satisfied with it for a couple months. As the months went by, I started to have problems with my laptop. I started to get a lot of error messages. It was so annoying. I tried making movies with it, but it kept freezing up on me. Also, the computer was so slow, it only had 1/2 GB of RAM. I became very impatient with it. One time, it used to freeze up on me a lot, so I had to restart it every time it did that. Also, the screen had red, green, and blue lines on some parts of it too. This computer was a waste of $999. I couldn’t take it anymore.

Around the end of 2005 into early 2006, I started to look at the Apple PowerBook G4. I thought they were pretty interesting computers. I was mainly looking at the $1999, 15-inch PowerBook. I realized how our Macs at school last a long time. So I assumed Macs were good computers. I used to daydream about having a Mac computer all the time.

My interest in PowerBooks slowly diminished as the MacBook Pros came out. The MacBook Pros were the first Macs to have an Intel processor. They used to have PowerPC Processors in the past years. In Spring 2006, when the MacBook came out, I started to go to the Apple Store more often. I always went to play on the MacBook Pros. I tried to persuade my mom to get one, but she said it was too much money. We asked someone for more information about the MacBook Pro. He said that you are better off with a MacBook. He said to us, “The MacBook is actually faster than the MacBook Pro.” That was a lie, they had the same processor speed. So, a couple months later, we got a MacBook. Of course, I got the more expensive one, which was the black one. It cost $1499 at starting price. I was so excited about it. I could actually do stuff on it, such as make movies.

I still have the same computer to this day. I’ve done many things on it that I couldn’t do on that other piece of junk. Two weeks before we got the Macbook, that piece of junk died. Nothing would work anymore. The only problems I had with my MacBook were: the power cord broke, and the hard drive failed and died. Good thing I backed up. Speaking of backing up, read what I wrote about backing up. It’s very important.