My 50th Mac! - IMRAN™
I first got to use an Apple Computer at the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. It was a an Apple II if I recall,... closely guarded my Professor Maulvi Saleem, who only allowed his favorites to get into his precious little "lab". If there is one thing I have not been all my life, it is any teacher's pet. LOL. I have been blessed to have been loved and respected and given individual attention and appreciation by great teachers from St. Paul's to Aitchison College to Columbia University, but I missed the classes on being a kiss @$$.
I, along with friends like Taheer and Theo (whom you have seen my in 1981 motorcycling photos and stories), was one of those casual engineering students who was lucky enough to get it just enough to manage. While having a hectic student political life lazily getting used to rushing around borrowing notes from other hardworking (and gracious!) classmates, usually the night before the exams.
I did blow a few years of academic time in student politics but was blessed to have kind teachers who supported my passing the remaining exams in time to graduate with the rest of my harder working and many also much smarter engineer classmates.
But, during that time, I got enamored with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Woz's creation, Apple Inc., along with a few other pioneers of that time (like Sinclair and Atari), and later became a MacUser from the first model that came out.
I got lucky enough to design the massive entirely Mac based newspaper publishing network for Jang Media Group - Jang Classified, for Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, the visionary tycoon and group owner, who launched a 5-city, 3-country, 3-continent global newspaper on the same day. Even the New York Times took 3 years to come up with it's all desktop publishing switchover.
Over time, I have bought almost every major Apple product and product line. I still have working Apple products including Macs from 1989.
I was needing a new MacBook Pro and would have preferred to wait for the next model, which I hope will be a refresh. But, who knows if it gets announced in September or not. And even if it does, when there would be enough in stock.
Much that I love Apple over any other company's computing or software products in the world, it is a shame that Apple's legendary quality died even while Jobs was alive, So I now wait a few months before buying newest Apple products.
Tim Cook along cannot be blamed for it happening on his CEO watch. The uninspiring products are all coming on his watch of course...,speaking of which...
The Apple Watch is one more Apple product I have not even bothered to TRY on, by the way. I did NOT buy Apple TV either. The iPad 3 was the first one which I felt worthy of being bought and still love using!
Which is interesting considering I still have a working Apple QuickTake (one of the world's first consumer digital cameras), and even a Newton 110, the second generation of what was the world's first truly mind blowing Personal Information Manager.
In any case, I was out riding to the Smith Haven Mall, on Long Island, NY, when I went to the Apple Store. With the very courteous and professional staff & manager's customer focus, I ended up going home with the latest current MacBook Pro, another retina 1TB SSD 16GB highest CPU model... which, by the grace of God is my 50th Apple Computer.
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