Apple… flash back.
Before Mac… we had an Apple ][ e in the school computer club together with a bunch of IBM AT clones. Apple ][ e obviously looked better than the ATs... an it also excelled because of the "programability" of the machine.
My friends were making speech synthesizer with the Apple ][ e while I was just doing the following with the AT clones (perhaps I am not a genius programer 
):
10 CLS
20 PRINT “THIS IS COOL!”
30 FOR C=1 to 12
40 A=C*12
50 PRINT C; ” x 12 = ” ; A
60 NEXT C
70 END
Then there was MicroFest at the Civic Hall a few years down the road. Computer fair in the older days is not like Ah Beng’s computer sales haven or Ah Lians selling MP3 players. Computer makers actually came and demo their latest technologies. I remember I had to pay RM2 entrance fee but that RM2 entitled me to watch 2 sci-fi of the day and 2 rounds of game marathon (beat the high score to win a prize). For me it was fun and a day out in the Civic Hall checking out everything, watch a movie, check out more, watch another movie, play game, see more things…
And damn, Apple just swept me away when I saw their Macintosh II during MicroFest. The true colour graphics, freaking high screen resolution and the GUI just blown me away totally! My jaw dropped… The PCs at school that I was using had 4 colours with 640×480 or B&W with 800×600 resolution. Since then, I promised myself that I would get a Mac one day.
When I was in uni, I was swamped by PCs. Ok… Functional… but no-fun because I was doing layout of society magazines and making posters. PC sucked big time for that. Then I went to grad school, the lab that I used had Macs! Yeah!!! However, my research required me to run simulations using a software only available for PC. Yes! The Win95 machine hung like 95 times a day… I lost my data and reports. But I had not choice. Fortunately, for other work in the lab, I had a Mac classic and a LC. Those two machines made me a sane person everytime the Win95 hung on me.
I couldn’t afford a computer till later… I am glad that I finally got a PowerBook 12″ a few years ago. Jerry has another story.
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talking about the PC hang half way while you are preparing the report or presentation, it look like a history for me now… now just realised that already few years I not need to troubleshoot this and that, hang half way & no need to use antivirus also…. it really PEACE of mind using Mac.
wa liao… what century was that?
go google lor… got all the models to hint when already. hehehe.
That was last century … those ‘olden’ days when I was younger