Subject: Elegant, intuitive, seriously stable

I didn’t always use to be a Mac lover.

I’m a grade 10 student, and a computer that works well is absolutely
essential to me so that I can complete my homework in the least time
possible and get to the important stuff — designing web sites. I knew a
lot about PCs, having learned from experience how to deal with frequent
crashes, viruses, and hardware incompatibilities. The PC was downright
confusing. No two programs worked the same way, and everything was
awkward and clunky, not to mention just plain unsightly.

It was the iBook that changed my entire outlook on computers. One day in
June, during lunch break, I was sitting in the school library surfing
the internet on one of their horribly inept PCs. By some fluke, I ended
up at the Apple site — looking right at a photo of the new iBook. Wow. I
got a sensation in my stomach, an intense feeling of envy mixed with
deep sorrow. This was a Mac. I didn’t like Macs. Well, at least I didn’t
then.

My curiosity overcoming my dislike, I ventured farther into the site. By
the time lunch break was up, I was convinced that I had to have this
computer. Macintosh or no Macintosh, this was the most cool laptop on
earth. And so began a long campaign to convince my parents to buy me the
iBook.

By the end of the summer, I had not only convinced them that they should
pay for half the iBook, but had also convinced my Dad to get rid of his
PC and buy a Power Mac G4 for his photo re-touching. The day the Macs
arrived was truly exciting. Setting up my iBook was the easiest thing I
had ever done on a computer! Within minutes, I had the iBook out of the
box, turned on, and set up. I began to explore the operating system. Wow
again. Not only was the computer itself incredible, but the operating
system, OS X, was just as nice. Elegant, intuitive, seriously stable...
This was everything I ever wanted in a computer.

My trusty iBook has come with me to school every day since I got it, and
has survived the demands of a student/designer’s busy life.

- SW