As little as 18 months ago, I was anti-Apple. Not in the sense that I hated the company, just that I found their products to be overpriced for what they are. Fast forward to the present day, and I now own a iPhone 3GS, iPad, and a brand spanking new MacBook Pro.
So, why the change of heart….
I always knew Macs were good. Even though I could never understand how to work my sister’s due to being a Windows user since Information Technology lessons at school introduced me to the world of computing. Coming from a poor family, I’d never had access to a computer before, so this was my first ever experience.
Just seeing how quickly my sister’s computer started compared to my middle-of-the-range but still fairly new laptop made me very envious. I – being a man – have always loved gadgets, and I was starting to get very jealous of that MacBook.
However, at that time I still refused to even look at the possibility of investing in one. I remember saying;
But why would you choose to pay an extra £600 just to get a computer that ran a bit faster, and looked a bit sexier?
I fully believed that my £400 laptop could do everything her MacBook could do (even if a little slower).
The tide started to turn when I bought myself a iPod Touch a few years ago. I was amazed at how amazing this little gadget was – especially after owning a £30 cheap Mp3 player previous to this. I used it all the time for checking email, and surfing the net when I couldn’t be bothered to wait for my increasingly sluggish Windows machine to boot up.
It was spring 2010 when I realised that an iPhone would be perfect for me. All the features of an iPod Touch, but I could also use it to check email etc when out and about. The fact it was a phone as well was – of course – an added bonus. My contract was up for renewal, and so I got the 3GS (about a month or two before the iPhone 4 was announced!).
Next came the iPad. When the Apple tablet was announced I couldn’t see a need for one. It remained this way for almost 6 months until I ‘played’ with one in the Apple Store. From that moment I knew I wanted one…. not needed one, just wanted one!
After slowly getting my girlfriend to agree that it was a good idea to spend £500 on one, I walked to the Apple Store and left 10 minutes later with one under my arm.
Finally, my new MacBook Pro was purchased about 7 weeks ago. I had recently sold some shares and had the money sitting in my bank, where it was due to stay. But, I always had a little nagging thought in my head that I wanted a computer that WORKED.
The day I decided to get one, was the day my girlfriend actually suggested I go and buy one. Once I’d recovered from the shock of those words coming out of her mouth I started reading everything I could on the performance of a machine that was going to cost me £1000.
Thankfully, I waited long enough to get my hands on the updated 2011 version. Three days after it’s release, I was in the Apple Store to spend £1000.
I have waited this long to post my review of this computer as I believe ANY computer works pretty fast out of the box, and so thought I would see how it performs after a couple of months of use. Trust me when I say this…. it is the best one thousand pounds I have ever spent.
For starters, it starts up really fast. To prove this I recorded a little video that shows it takes less than a minute from pressing the ‘on’ button, to having the web browser open and ready for use. If you are interested, here is that video;
I am fed up with Microsoft Windows. In my spare time I am an Internet Marketer… meaning I make money on the Internet. Using Windows cost me countless hours attempting to get my 2 year old computer to work, and time – as the old proverb goes – is money.
It was time I had a computer that allowed me to be more productive and waste less time waiting for Windows to respond to a simple command to open an application.
With my new MacBook Pro, I now have that. It loads fast, it opens applications fast, and it doesn’t give up on me when I ask it to do more than one thing. In simple terms, it WORKS. It’s for that reason that when anybody says to me;
How can you justify spending that much money on a computer?
I can reply truthfully;
Because it does what it’s supposed to do.
For anyone that is interested, I have the least powerful MacBook Pro model. It has a 13″ screen, 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor with 3MB shared L3 cache (I’m not sure what all that means though!), and a 320GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive.
This machine is impressive, and I would definitely encourage anyone looking to be more productive to invest in one. It could be your best investment yet…..
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