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My PowerBook turns more heads than I do. I'll admit it ― I'm a little jealous. Passers-by turn their necks around to see how thin it is, or slow down just enough to see the Apple symbol light up from the back. Maybe it's even gotten me a few dates…
Beginning another fall semester in college, it was time to purchase a new laptop… the possibilities were nearly endless. Dell, Gateway, Sony ― all seemed reasonable and boring enough to get the job done. But then, on a flight from Denver to Austin, I saw it ― the PowerBook G4 Titanium. I couldn't believe that a laptop could be so thin and so beautiful. I must have bothered that poor passenger for 3 hours asking him all about it, and by the time we touched down in Austin, I had made my decision.
I went home that night, logged on to the Apple Store, and bought my PowerBook ― and for an educational discount, no less. Less than a week later I was sitting in a coffee shop, working on some projects for my design internship, and watching heads turn. Everyone in the design field beamed with pride - that I had joined them, and was now “one of the team.”
Then, it started… I started to wave at cars with Apple stickers. I began my intense obsession with “Think Different” posters. I laughed openly at the other students with Windows errors and blue-screen crashes. I fell deeply in love with the iPod. I started calling other computers “fat.”
Now I have an iBook, a PowerBook, and the iPod. Along with a wall of historic Apple advertising posters, a few t-shirts, and a sticker on my car. Call it a cult if you must. But when was the last time your computer got YOU a date?
Janie Porche |
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