The first computer I ever had was an Apple IIgs. Technically, this was before there even were Macs (they were still just Apples). One day something about it broke and I ended up in PC-land, where things were cheaper. I took a class on building your own computers, and spent the next 5 years with computer parts around my room and 2-4 computers in various states of disrepair. Then I got a job at a music production company and had a chance to work with Macs again. A year or two later I found myself working at a mortgage company (where I still work now), as you can guess they don’t do Mac.

Now, for the very first time in my life, I’m buying the top of the line model of something. Seriously, I have never paid for the best of anything. I buy things used, I buy things new but 2 or 3 steps down from the best…but not this time. There’s a MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 17″ 2.33GHz 2GB 160GB coming in the mail with my name on it!

Look for plenty more postings in the near future about how this is going for me. I’ll be making plenty of well-researched and personally-tested recommendations as usual. Feel free to learn from my mistakes and benefit from my often overly-enthusiastic research.