Ah, temptation. Apple, why do you taunt me so? I only have so many dollars, and so much room in my tiny Brooklyn apartment. Alright, alright, Apple, I know what you are going to say, “But surely, Athena, you have enough room for the world’s thinnest laptop! You should give us your hard-earned $1800 and have another computer, a more portable computer, a sexier, sleeker computer.” Can’t you just hear the hissing of the ’s’ in sexier and sleeker? Well, Apple, you aren’t going to like what I am going to say. For once, I will resist temptation, but more out of practicality, than lack of desire.

Well, I have a very, incredibly long, tumultuous at times, history with Apple. Especially for being as young as I am. Let’s just say when I was two, the Macintosh was first introduced in that now infamous Ridley Scott commercial. I digress. My first Apple computer was a Macintosh Performa 200. For those of you not in the know, that was the little rectangular brick looking thing that had a grayscale screen and a 3.5″ floppy drive. I would do all sorts of things on that first computer. Oregon Trail, of course, was top choice, but what to do after you have forded the Snake River and all of your companions die because your oxen just weren’t tall enough? (more…)