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Overhead Projections - Mac-death

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Contributed by: Anthonette Klinkerman on 11/19/2006

I said goodbye to a friend today. We'd been pretty tight for about five years now, but lately he'd become irritable, old-fashioned, slow, in fact. I couldn't take it any more, especially with his color fading in and out like that.
So, with a weary heart, I went shopping. It was time to part ways with my old iMac and its obsolete, although great half a decade ago, programs.
I am now gazing into a sleek and stylish 17 inch flat monitor with bright, faultless graphics. There is even a tiny camera staring back at me. My old iMac sits on the opposite side of the office looking gray and sullen. Sorry, old friend, I had to do it. When I could get up, start laundry, and grab another cup of coffee while you were warming up, it was time to acknowledge the fact that there wasn't much I could do to get you to speed things along. Sure, I could've had you tuned up, could have added more memory... but by that time I'd be halfway to purchasing a new model. Have you seen what in-home computer repairmen charge for just arriving at your door??
I've admitted before I'm not the most technologically savvy person out there. I'm stuck wondering what to do with you now, questioning whether or not I've properly deleted everything that could incriminate me later. Most likely, you'll sit there collecting dust until I can determine the best route for you. My daughter may use you to "type big letters" while I'm processing at warp speed on the other side of the room, but that's about it.
You were so cool not that long ago. I even recall the commercials. How could you become that outdated so quickly? The only thing I know of with a shorter shelf life than a Mac is an American Idol.
Yet I'm a Mac loyalist. I love the formatting, I love the stylish look, and I love the band hawking some of your products. I'm listening to them right now on iTunes, coincidentally.
I'm also sort of stuck with the product line as that's what teachers use. Oh, sure, there are some PCs to be found in a school building, but Apple has the market cornered. When I was first handed an iBook, I could scarcely believe it. They are trusting us with these things? I had been known to drop it a time or two, and a friend drove off with one perched on the trunk of her car. iBooks held up quite well, considering teachers can be a functionally computer illiterate group. They didn't hold up so well under the hands of middle schoolers, as I recollect. Taking the key covers off was great fun to a number of eighth grade students.
I have a history with the bitten Apple. That is what makes it so hard to part ways with each one I've had to retire. (Three in seven years, if my math serves me.) I was a "sevvie" when I first met the fledgling version of you, the Apple 2E. Hot stuff back then. I remember thinking as we practiced writing in computer-ese commands that included the riotous term GOTO, "Oh, yeah, this is going to be useful." Should've paid a little more attention now that I think about it.
Adieu, adieu, iMac of old, parting is such sweet sorrow. However, I think I'll pull through...

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Submitted By: Charmaine Robledo

posted on 11/21/2006 @ 3:32:06 PM

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I remember learning how to use a computer on my brother's old Apple. The computer was so cool back then (early '90s) because it was small and had a mouse. I kept playing this "game" which taught you how to use the mouse -- dragging and clicking. It was so fun.

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