“I remember the first time I got a Mac I thought when I opened it up, I don’t know if I should turn it on or hug it,” said Today co-host Savannah Guthrie Oct. 6 the day after Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away at age 56. “It (the Mac) was so cute for lack of a better word.”
I don’t know if I would go so far as to wanting to give my new light brown rectangular Quadra 630 that came with a cd-rom, floppy disk drive and exterior modem a big hug upon getting it though I did come pretty close. The machine was my very first computer and what made it so special was the fact it came from Apple.
I have owned three other Apple computers since 1995 that include the 1999 blue and white PowerMac G3 whose monitor was so heavy and bothersome to lug around back and forth from storage I am sure that’s the reason I got back problems today. The others are the 2001 iBook G3 laptop and the 2007 iMac.
Along with those macs I have owned are two personal computers from Dell. Guess which computers I got sitting in storage still work today, albeit marginally slower than the current updated technology out there? It’s the Apple computers. Of the two Dell machines I own, one lasted less than a year where the hard drive went out while the virus protection software on the laptop expired and I have no intention of paying more money to renew it. I have NEVER had to pay extra for any security software for the Apple computers I have bought.
Whenever I bought an Apple computer it really was as conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh said on his Oct. 6 radio show when he commented on Jobs’ passing like I was a kid who couldn’t wait to open up that huge present sitting under the tree on Christmas Eve.
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“It’s difficult as an adult to have childlike wonderment,” Limbaugh said who for the past 23 years has often spoken of his love for Apple products. “How soon do we all outgrow the excitement that as children we all felt on Christmas Eve, and how many of us wish by magic that we could recapture it? To find out, to rediscover that total, unbounded passion of childlike exuberance, excitement, innocence, uncluttered by the rigors of life lived as an adult. And for me, speaking honestly, the introduction of every new Apple product ignited that in me.”
I could buy a personal computer anytime and it never mattered to me what company the product came from. What made buying a new Apple computer was the fact every one of them I purchased the past 15 years was the company’s latest product that just got put out on the market.
Just a few weeks ago at Best Buy I checked out the small assortment of Apple products located in the back of the store near all the personal computers. Every year in December I always buy something big as a personal birthday/Christmas present to myself. I was again considering another iMac that will have a much larger screen this time.
Today, I and countless others use them to download music and watch movies by Pixar as a result of Jobs’ contributions. I never would have known the day would come where I can toss a majority of the compact discs I got and put all the music I listen to into one little iPod that I can either hook up to a USB port in the car and select various songs to play while driving or doing the elliptical at 24 Hour Fitness.
I hope as a result of Jobs’ untimely passing that this does not mark the end where upon my buying my next Apple computer, I will no longer exhibit that “childlike exuberance” Limbaugh spoke about or get that touchy feeling Savannah Guthrie had where upon getting her first Mac, she wasn’t sure if she should either turn it on or hug it.
Our loss though is Heaven’s gain and should it turn out there isn’t such a place, to quote Sonia Taitz’s Oct. 6 blog posting at www.soniataitz.com, “Steve Jobs will invent one. And it will be user-friendly and available to all.”
©10/10/11
I don’t know if I would go so far as to wanting to give my new light brown rectangular Quadra 630 that came with a cd-rom, floppy disk drive and exterior modem a big hug upon getting it though I did come pretty close. The machine was my very first computer and what made it so special was the fact it came from Apple.
I have owned three other Apple computers since 1995 that include the 1999 blue and white PowerMac G3 whose monitor was so heavy and bothersome to lug around back and forth from storage I am sure that’s the reason I got back problems today. The others are the 2001 iBook G3 laptop and the 2007 iMac.
Along with those macs I have owned are two personal computers from Dell. Guess which computers I got sitting in storage still work today, albeit marginally slower than the current updated technology out there? It’s the Apple computers. Of the two Dell machines I own, one lasted less than a year where the hard drive went out while the virus protection software on the laptop expired and I have no intention of paying more money to renew it. I have NEVER had to pay extra for any security software for the Apple computers I have bought.
I don’t know about anyone else but I have never had any trouble with Apple’s products in the 20 plus years I have been using them. The software/hardware issues I had with the Macs, which were rare, was usually my own fault. When the hard drive on my iMac this year burned out, I am fairly certain the reason had to do with my downloading a Lego building program off the Internet that was too large for the hard drive to take.
Whenever I bought an Apple computer it really was as conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh said on his Oct. 6 radio show when he commented on Jobs’ passing like I was a kid who couldn’t wait to open up that huge present sitting under the tree on Christmas Eve.>
“It’s difficult as an adult to have childlike wonderment,” Limbaugh said who for the past 23 years has often spoken of his love for Apple products. “How soon do we all outgrow the excitement that as children we all felt on Christmas Eve, and how many of us wish by magic that we could recapture it? To find out, to rediscover that total, unbounded passion of childlike exuberance, excitement, innocence, uncluttered by the rigors of life lived as an adult. And for me, speaking honestly, the introduction of every new Apple product ignited that in me.”
I could buy a personal computer anytime and it never mattered to me what company the product came from. What made buying a new Apple computer was the fact every one of them I purchased the past 15 years was the company’s latest product that just got put out on the market.
Just a few weeks ago at Best Buy I checked out the small assortment of Apple products located in the back of the store near all the personal computers. Every year in December I always buy something big as a personal birthday/Christmas present to myself. I was again considering another iMac that will have a much larger screen this time.
I can understand why Apple buffs got excited whenever Jobs unveiled a new product to the world. Just last week I heard one of my co-workers, who is also a fan of Apple, complain about the new iPhone 4S coming out Oct. 14 citing how the company will do anything to tease her into spending more money.Unlike most fans of Apple products, I didn’t realize until a few days after Jobs’ passing how for the past twenty years since I went into majoring in Journalism that the technology Jobs created was almost part of my daily routine. I basically took what the Macs offered in terms of graphics and technology for granted. I didn’t just use the machines to write columns, news stories and reviews and browse the web but to alter photographs and create web pages. Obviously it is no secret today that one of the reasons Apple has so many devoted fans is because of the graphics.
Today, I and countless others use them to download music and watch movies by Pixar as a result of Jobs’ contributions. I never would have known the day would come where I can toss a majority of the compact discs I got and put all the music I listen to into one little iPod that I can either hook up to a USB port in the car and select various songs to play while driving or doing the elliptical at 24 Hour Fitness.
I hope as a result of Jobs’ untimely passing that this does not mark the end where upon my buying my next Apple computer, I will no longer exhibit that “childlike exuberance” Limbaugh spoke about or get that touchy feeling Savannah Guthrie had where upon getting her first Mac, she wasn’t sure if she should either turn it on or hug it.
Our loss though is Heaven’s gain and should it turn out there isn’t such a place, to quote Sonia Taitz’s Oct. 6 blog posting at www.soniataitz.com, “Steve Jobs will invent one. And it will be user-friendly and available to all.”
©10/10/11
