When I graduated high school, I got an iMac. I fell in love. A deep love. With Macs. And their beauty. I loved my desktop computer. White and gleaming. I could organize all my photos and waste many hours in college playing games like Sims or Zoo Tycoon. I could set my pictures from back home as my screensaver, so that any time I was lonely I could remember all those people that I loved. I was spoiled in college. My honors college got us all a free leased iBook to use during college as well. I was a two Mac girl. It was great.

Then after graduating, I turned in my iBook, packed up my iMac and moved in with my new husband. That man who had the monstrous Dell laptop. A huge beast of a laptop. The man who also had a desktop PC. And who had purchased me my own little PC also. That is right, we had four computers at one time. We sold off the desktop PCs, leaving us with Cale’s laptop and my trusty old iMac. An iMac who was slowly being outdated and who I found myself neglecting for the speed of the newer laptop. Then when Cale’s Dell gave up on life, we got him a new HP laptop. A purchase that I think both Cale and I knew was mostly for him. Even though I would insist it was “our” computer, we would always refer to it as his. And we would battle over our computer time. It got to where even Cale agreed it was time to upgrade the iMac for me.

We started checking them out a while back, but realized we should wait since it had been a while since their last iMac refresh. One was due any day according to the mac rumors sites. Well much to our surprise, this morning Apple announced the new iMacs, along with their other desktop computer refreshes.. and those new computers were available.. today! So my husband had his mission. He was calling the store, waiting for them to get their shipment in. Until around three this afternoon we became the proud owners of a new iMac.. with a whole terabyte of memory! I am so relieved to have a computer to myself that runs quickly and is oh-so-pretty. (That I didn’t even have to set up, by the way. I came home to it all pretty on top of my desk).

Just to compare.. New Mac… Old Mac. Bye bye old Mac! I’ll miss you!

So after a short venture into the PC life, I’m very glad to be back to having a Mac. A big, huge, beautiful Mac.