I would not have believed that I would be so indulged with Apple let alone MacBookPro. Ever since iPhone was launched, I never really had myself attached to it then. Perhaps, learning about it would have made me yearned for it then. It must be due to the fact that I am a Microsoft-Intel devoter then. Apple and iPhone were just a fad to me… how silly one could be eh?
Years went on and I somehow did manage to avoid being attracted to Apple products. iPhone was somehow out of my top-ten-list for no apparent reason. Plain ignorance. I reckoned the fact that Nokia and Sony Ericsson came to me as mobile phone successors had made Apple’s iPhone being shadowed away in my list of choices then. I had several laptops to my disposal weekly – Dell, Toshiba, Sony, HP, Compaq, Asus, Acer and even Lenovo. Pure satisfaction and appraisal for the design and finishing quality had lost its appeal, in other words – I am getting bored. As a matter of fact, nothing from these manufacturers with a budget below RM5000 gives me the thrill. My last gadget was the Mini HP 1001TU and though it comes in a petite design and handy being a netbook, it does lack of oomph in terms of processing power. I actually found it useful for simple mobile banking and able to hide under the driver’s seat. Pricing it as entry level added up as an advantage. However good it might be, I found myself sneaking back to larger screen and the quest for better quality with something to show. 1024×600 in resolution is just a chore to use, scrolling up and down was already a task, scrolling left to right played with my patience. It was like having a compact car that could bring you around town routinely served as a very convenient transport but somehow, at times, the need to have something that reflects a part of yourself, well, it does matter. At least for me, especially in meetings and client discussions. It posed to be inferior, if I must add, it shouted feminine. Only when I need to catch a drink and the need to be online, the laptop would be put to good use. Nothing any smartphone could replaced, not at the moment. Well, I found using HP Mini a little lacking in feel and it did feel kind of like using glossy plastic. Of course, the immediate cousin HP2140 might have been the replacement twin but deep inside I realised that I did need no more Atom processor powering my list of chores.
I came across Sony VAIO and I found myself especially drawn to the Z series that has carbon fibre which I found it amazingly light for a 13in. Tagging at RM8K was just way out of my budget for portable notebooks that have resale values of 50% within the first year of age made me shy away! Somehow the same hype from Microsoft and Intel gave not much of glory and excitement compared to those early years of computing.
Apple with the new MacBookPro with 13in came as a surprise. Unibody made from aluminium and the smooth elegant design became an envy to my peers. The Mac OS X is a gem to use. Perhaps the wallpaper could be copied to Windows. Perhaps the overall look of the OS could be duplicated onto Windows too. But the stability and the feel of the entire OS, the experience of using the MBP was just simply beyond my words, something a WinIntel machine had to catch up. The keyboard, the mouse tapping, the overall feel -nothing could compared to it!
Now, do yourself a favour. Go check out one! Do not worry, it is very user friendly.
You will swear how much you have missed out all this while, at least in the mobile computing world!
Now can anyone poison me to get an iPhone? Hehe…