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MacBook Pro
After around two years of regularly pestering my parents to buy a computer, I found myself - at the mighty age of 13 - the proud owner (OK, user) of an Apple IIe. When the time came to upgrade to something more powerful I ended up on the Windows path, on which I stayed for all home computing for the next two decades.
Last week I looked around me to see that I owned 5 computers, all of them running Windows and only one of them fully functional. When this last one died - at least the primary hard disk did - I decided to rejoin the Apple path.
The logic was simple: it was another thing to learn. The simplicity, aesthetics and suitability for my needs were only minor considerations; nice to have but nowhere near as important. The major factor was that I could run Windows on a Mac, but not (as least not yet) run OS X on a PC.
I ended up getting a shiny new MacBook Pro, which has just been upgraded to the Core 2 Duo. Together with double the RAM (now 1gb by default) and a host of minor improvements - notably to the DVD burning capabilities, which is ideal - it's a great, beautiful and exceedingly fast machine. I love it.
One of the planned uses is the running of Win XP in a virtual window, largely because I already have a few high-priced (and paid for) applications for that OS; but also so I can keep up to date with that and other operating systems (I play with various flavours on Linux from time to time). I'm about to install Parallels and XP, and will post up a summary of the experience once I've had a chance to test them both out properly. The same thing goes for the MacBook itself, but at the moment I find it hard to believe that it's going to be anything less than a glowing review. It really is a superb machine.
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