Chris just got a MacBook

My friend Chris just got himself a MacBook.

It was his first Mac, I was told. He had been using Windows all along and had heard good things about Macs, particularly about how it would benefit people like him who are into photography. I'm sure he had toyed with the idea of switching in the past, but kept putting it off for whatever reason.

Maybe he's a firm believer in the adage 'don't put off till tomorrow what you can put off today'.

But the deal breaker came in the form of two recent events:

1. The generic laptop which he bought in China started to develop problems that are mission-critical in nature (hey, when all you want to do is write your thesis and your laptop won't let you do it, it IS mission-critical).

2. I showed him and Julia the silly 5-minute video.. Or at least it is what I'd like to believe.

Hence the MacBook.

The day after he bought it, Chris called to say that he was having a great time with his new toy, that he had already made a video and was about to post it on YouTube, and that perhaps we should organise a little MacBook party soon.

Wait a minute. What happened to that thesis thing?

Chris' purchase came on the heels of another friend's purchase. Eija got her MacBook soon after returning home to Helsinki in July.

In her case, she turned out to be a closet Mac user. Apparently, she had been secretly lusting after my Agnetha and only confessed to me about it when she went back to her home city.