The Absolutely Amazing Ability of Apple to Astound

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...I'm an Apple-addict..."

I remember back in the day, my father came home with a new 486 PC that he wanted to surprise me with for my 11th (or was it 12th?) birthday... It came with something called "DOS", and with something called "Windows 3.1". He showed me how to use it, how to type things ("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog," ad infinitum...) and how to use a mouse. Then he put some games in, and I was amazed...

So for a little under a year I was putting every single thing that anything to do with my life in that little beige box that could.

In went my homework, schedules, games from virra mall, little pictures that I drew with my mouse, even 5 pages worth of "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", repeated over and over again. Pretty soon my Pop was asking me advice on how to work the darn thing himself...

Until I noticed that something was happening.

Suddenly my faithful PC wasn't working the way it was supposed to.

It would freeze and stop, it would say things like "Drive G: is unaccessible", or it would have "fatal errors" or even admit that "Warning! The system has become unstable".

In short, it acted like Jack Nicholson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Nothing I did seemed to make it run smooth. I studied all the arcana it had, and learned things like "autoexec.bat" and "config.sys". I learned "combo tricks" like Ctrl+Alt+Del and Alt+F4. I even kicked and swore at it a few times...

But alas, countless homework deadlines were missed, and many "saved games" were lost. And the strange thing was, it would happen again and again and again, with every single PC that we got to replace the previous one.

And I was sad.

Until my mom came in one day, many years after my 11th birthday, with a large box that had an apple on it and said "iMac".

This time, I was the one who taught her how to use it, how to type, and how to use the mouse. Then she used it for a month or two, and I was amazed.

No bugs, no crashes, no problems, no headaches.

No kicking and swearing too.

Then I was hooked. The iMac was a revelation, it was a sign from someone up there who really likes me that I don't have to be pissed everytime I use a newfangled thing like a computer.

That was four years ago. Now I've gone through 2 iMacs, 1 PowerMac, 3 iPods, and an iBook.

All of them are working the way they should, since the day that I bought them.

Say what you want, but I know a good thing when I see it, and I'm sticking to my Macs; because I'm an Apple-addict.

Now I'm starting to understand why Eve took a bite of that thing in the first place...