Plot Development

I am giddy with excitement. At the ripe old age of 27, I am about to be a first-time Macintosh owner. There were plenty of excuses in the past to not give Apple a chance. My cousins were Apple-users, and I always thought our Commodore 64 was better. Why? They were rocking the green screen while I was living large in 16-bit color. Tapper, Bruce Lee, Spy Hunter... I could go on and on about why the Commodore 64 was an amazing system, but I'll try to stay on point. Certainly Apple evolved and got better over time, but then Michael Dell jumped on the scene and we bought a Dell 486 when I was in 8th grade. Windows 3.11 was mind-blowing. Yes, it was somewhat reminiscent of my cousins' Apple, but better for some reason I cannot explain. That Dell 486 was just awesome. It was a life-changing event for a young boy that grew up to be a superstar IT professional. (Intended to make my co-workers laugh.)

By the time I got to college, I was fully drunk on the Windows Kool-Aid. I worked in the campus computer lab where roughly half of the machines were Apple iMac G3's; you remember them - they had the cool candy color shells, the processor, hard drive, and CD rom drive were built into the monitor. They were beautiful machines, but I disregarded them because I had no idea how to use them. Anytime someone asked for help, I had to punt to the one guy in the lab that understood Macs.

So now I'm older. My father-in-law is an Apple fanatic. Whenever I'm at his house and I use his computer, I am in awe of the elegant design, but am totally lost from a navigation perspective. But I'm fairly competent, right? Gimme some time and I'll crack this nut. Now it comes down to price. Apples are crazy expensive. But the refurbished ones aren't. Today I bought an iMac G3 with a 600MHz processor, 256 MB of RAM, and a CDRW drive for around $150. Steve Jobs...

Holy Crap!!! There is smoke coming out of my old Windows PC!!!! I think I saw fire. D@mn that smells really bad. My wife just tried plugging it in and it seems to have partially started on fire. I suspect that my dog may have had a role in this. How ironic - my secondary PC just died.

So anyway... Steve Jobs is finally getting a chance to win over my heart. I will let you know how it goes.