Not only did my technophobe sister buy a new Mac 12-inch iBook for my nephew, she also bought a large-screen iBook for her family computer. Makes sense, since her two PCs have been rendered unusable by malicious code.
While I sold her on Mac security, what interested her most was all the bells and whistles, particularly the Garage Band software. She and her husband are in a band that records its own music. She also bought into the .Mac e-mail and Web site service, saying it sounds easy to use.
“I feel such peace about buying these computers,” she says.
A common conversion experience, according to Leander Kahney, author of “The
Cult of the Mac” ($26.37 on Amazon, No Starch Press), who admits his own obsession with Macs.
“Apple’s products look great,” he writes. “You want to touch them, feel them, caress them.”
Well, gee, I know I felt that way when I opened the box and placed my one-piece 20″ in-the-screen Mac on my desk and plugged just two cords (one for the camera and one for the power source). It was like bringing home a new baby–the first time I ever got excited about buying a new computer.
