I'm a grown (ok, old) woman, who made an impulse buy last October and got a 4th gen Ipod touch. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Until i saw an Ipad. Bought an Ipad 2 as soon as I got my tax return. Completely hooked now. Four weeks ago I bought a new PC, 12 gigs of RAM, Core I3 processor. Nothing wrong with it really but two weeks later I shipped it back and drove to the nearest Apple store and bought a 21.5 Imac which I am typing on right now.
It is slick and solid like a German car. One wire. ONE!
I'd never owned an Apple product until I bought that Ipod. Now they own me. And I don't care.
Very similar to me in many ways. I'm only 24, a college student. Before everything, years ago, i never owned a single Apple product. I decided that instead of that old Sony CD player i used to carry around, it was time i get an MP3 player. Since Apple MP3 players where always considered the best. I got a second generation iPod touch. That little thing changed the way i look at tech forever.
That thing was more than an MP3 player. For me, it was a portable computer. Or a "Mobile Computer" as i've been calling them lately. E-mail, Web browsing, video, youtube, social networking, lots of tools and utilities, lots of productivity software, games and yes, even music. That thing is a computer no doubt.
My mother bought herself an iPad which she ended up never using. a first generation iPad (Wifi, 32GB). So everyone played around with it whenever we wanted. That's when i decided i must have my own (We could play around with it, but not mess with it in anyway). I bought a first generation iPad (Wifi, 16GB) and now i cant imagine myself without it. I use it everyday for many many tasks.
Right now i'm at the point where i want a Mac. I was gonna buy one but the family kept pestering me that an HP computer would be faster and less expensive than a Mac. I took their advice and to this day i consider it the worst purchase i've ever made. I wish i could sell it but i have no experience with Ebay and dont know the first thing about selling stuff. I hear people all the time say (Bought this and sold it, then bought that and sold it), haha i honestly dont know how people do it. I wish it was that easy. I would sell a ton of stuff, believe me.
There is nothing wrong with the HP PC. I just think Macs are better and i want one. That simple. It kinda bugs me just to see it laying there... being ugly. Oh yeah, along the way i also bought a fourth generation iPod touch. The second generation one sits in a drawer. I really wanna find use for it though!
Right now, i'm thinking on buying my first iPhone since i can pay for that as i go (200$ + 70$ monthly vs a huge 1500$ at once. Too much for me) but the family is pestering me that an Android phone is cheaper and has unlimited bandwidth. History repeats but not for me. I wont make the same mistake again. I want an iPhone and that's what i'll buy! Its my hard earned money damn it!
Sorry for the huge post. I'll go away now. *hides*
. But my first conscious decision was when it broke and 9 - 10 year old me mowed every lawn I could for over a year and bought me a nice shiny PowerMac G4. (And its still going strong) - For a 10 year old its the biggest purchase you can make pretty much.
