Bought my first computer in 1995, a Proteva "speed" demon with a 20mb hard drive, 4mb of ram, and that awesome dial up modem that seemed like something out of Star Trek. over the years I graduated to a gateway, a dell, and then two Toshiba laptops. from windows 3.1, to windows 95, windows 98 (the best), and windows xp. I had always wanted to own an apple, and finally this year when my 10 year old Toshiba started to have major issues I decided to buy a Mac, and settled on the MacBook Air M1. naturally there is a small learning curve switching from one g.u.i. to another, but with so many "how to" help sites out there, it's pretty easy.
of course with any new purchase we are all curious and worried, "did we make the right choice on our purchase?" and then we find forums like this where we read about the good and the bad, and unfortunately most people post the bad on sites like this, and I hope that I'm not one of those in the days/weeks/months to come?
so far this M1 is a kick @$$ machine!! it is every thing the reviews I read said it was; fast, great battery life, awesome colors, quiet, instantly on, and can handle any demands I might require of it.
I just wish more people who have positive experiences with their computer, regardless of which model they have, would post positive posts so that people who are considering a new purchase can read something other than the negative posts. there are always going to be a product that does not perform up to the posted standards, and that's because there is no way of knowing the conditions of where that machine is being used. is the electrical wiring in the house properly grounded? was there an electrical spike and no surge protector? are others using the computer and did they spill something on the keyboard? was the computer dropped without the other person knowing? so many factors to consider.
anyway, just saying "hi" and glad to be a Mac owner!
of course with any new purchase we are all curious and worried, "did we make the right choice on our purchase?" and then we find forums like this where we read about the good and the bad, and unfortunately most people post the bad on sites like this, and I hope that I'm not one of those in the days/weeks/months to come?
so far this M1 is a kick @$$ machine!! it is every thing the reviews I read said it was; fast, great battery life, awesome colors, quiet, instantly on, and can handle any demands I might require of it.
I just wish more people who have positive experiences with their computer, regardless of which model they have, would post positive posts so that people who are considering a new purchase can read something other than the negative posts. there are always going to be a product that does not perform up to the posted standards, and that's because there is no way of knowing the conditions of where that machine is being used. is the electrical wiring in the house properly grounded? was there an electrical spike and no surge protector? are others using the computer and did they spill something on the keyboard? was the computer dropped without the other person knowing? so many factors to consider.
anyway, just saying "hi" and glad to be a Mac owner!
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