May 27, 2011

I'm a total Apple fangirl.

(except mine has a touch pad, so it's better)

But I wasn't always this way.

Once upon a time I was afraid of new things. I clung to my Microsoft Windows OS because it's what ran on our first family computer: a Gateway all-in-one desktop PC that I do not recall with fond memories -the machine would have run a lot better if my two younger brothers hadn't constantly flooded it with viruses received from the numerous pr0n sites and stupid downloadable games they got.

(as a side note I'm sad to say they have never really moved beyond this phase and have effectively destroyed both of the computers in my parents' home, where they both still live. Shame on them)

Moving on, needless to say despite how annoying it was to have a computer that chugged like a tugboat, sounded like a table saw and crashed every other day, Microsoft was what I was used to and it stayed that way for a long time, I'm ashamed to say.

Even buying a cute iPod Nano when I was seventeen or so (I think) didn't alter my PC-using ways. It just ensured that I would never use a non-Apple product to store and play my music on-the-go I blew through three different models of that baby until I finally wised up and got myself an iPhone 4.

Aah yes, my iPhone 4.

Some of you might recall the glorious day when I waited in line for about four hours to ditch my lame old flip phone (and consequently drunkenly smashed it on the road that night -such a release!) and got my Baby.

Honestly the best part about buying my iPhone 4 -besides it being an iPhone 4- was waiting in line outside of Winnipeg's very own Apple store. Ours only opened this year (whomp whomp) but it felt so good to go into that shiny, pristine store and mingle with all the other people who were just as pumped to be there as I was. It's crazy to think that the Apple store has been around for ten years already.

Check this:

Steve Jobs ILU

Moving on, this purchase was swiftly followed by Gretchel, my iPad (named after an unfortunate incident with a snarky clown and me on stage at the Fringe Festival) the night before I bought it, and to be honest between my day-to-day iPhone 4 useage and my iPad on campus at the university Microsoft felt, well... dated.

So a few months back I went out and bought myself a shiny, gorgeous iMac 21.5" 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 and finally initiated myself into the Cult of Mac. Having it made the three solid weeks I spent researching and writing all my final papers in every spare minute of the day that much more bearable, and I could never, ever go back to using a PC.

Call me an elitist, a snob, whatever. I don't care.

And now I have obtained the Golden Power of Apple

(also: Zelda. Whassup?!)