I was writing a paper on the PC…

We are now officially a Mac family. Much of the credit has to go to Ellen Feiss.

I saw this commercial for the first time when I was a freshman in college, which was about the same time Apple was making its resurgence into the mainstream. At that point, all Macs were running OS 9 and many featured a colorful outer body like this one:

Since Ellen Feiss first endorsed the Mac after her computer went “bleep bleep beep beep beep” and she was “like, Huh?”, Apple has come a long way. At that time, iPods were still brand new and looked like this:

Now, of course, you can’t walk 10 feet without noticing someone’s white earbuds or maybe even see their fingers quickly navigating the touch screen of an iPhone (by the way, it has apparently been “confirmed” for the 547 time this week that Verizon will soon offer the iPhone. Fingers crossed!).

Ellen first got me interested in the world of Macs, but it took quite a few years to draw me in.

After multiple viruses and one lightning strike, we have discarded four PCs in the last year. Yes, FOUR! I know it sounds wasteful, but let me also add that two of those computers date back to 2001. One of the laptops is still in pseudo-working order, with the exception of some occasional nagging spyware and a large imperfection in the screen. That one is still with us, just not our computer of choice, for obvious reasons.

This past Christmas, we made the decision to buy each other a Mac Mini for our home office! Since we already had a nice, large LCD monitor, all we needed was the “brains” of the computer. A Mac Mini was the perfect solution, as the entire computer is stored in one tiny box that sits on your desktop. No more giant CPU that takes up most of your leg room and sends cords running all over the office. Think of it like the size of a brick, with the capacity of a two-story house.

Between the Mac Mini and Micah’s MacBook Pro for work, we’re now a Mac family.

-Laura

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