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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Milner" data-source="post: 23822" data-attributes="member: 9">Re: Macbook&nbsp;&nbsp;HUGE +1 . . . My first macbook which I picked up when they first went to Intel is still kicking butt. It&#039;s a humble and original 13&quot; white macbook... it&#039;s beat to hell physically from traveling to every gig with me for years and being carted all over the globe in my backback. It slid off of the top of my FOH console twice over the years and landed hard both times... never missed a beat (literally... it was playing itunes at the time for break music on both occasions). &nbsp; I&#039;ve kept my software updated over the years, and it is held together with a fair amount of Gaff Tape now, so I recently retired it from road use and it now lives connected to my big lcd tv. It has Logic on it for mixing and listening at home, still do an occasional bit of Qlab and SM pre-gig work on it, and it kicks butt playing Netflix and Hulu stuff for entertainment (I don&#039;t have have cable... 100% online content here). For a computer that I purchased 5 years ago... it is just AWESOME to me that it is still a solid and relevant piece of hardware. &nbsp; The thing about owning an apple computer for me compared to owning the multitude of other computers I have had... is that after 5 years of owning the little macbook. . . I still LOVE to use the thing. It&#039;s silly in our industry especially, to care at all about a given piece of hardware, but like Tim, I would be heartbroken if someone ripped off my little old macbook. That intrepid little macbook went on a lot of cool gigs, trips and generally made my life easier and made me a lot of money over the years... and it never once asked for anything other then a new battery in return. &nbsp;Some people may hate the apple designs and concepts, but as someone who uses professional grade tech tools daily, I like the fact that when I pick up my laptop, it feels like someone actually gave a shit when they designed it. The advances that apple has made in unibody construction techniques in the past years have proven again and again that these guys REALLY care about the products they offer for sale.&nbsp;Sorry for the long post... I just got home from a bit of a boring and long gig.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steve Milner, post: 23822, member: 9"] Re: Macbook HUGE +1 . . . My first macbook which I picked up when they first went to Intel is still kicking butt. It's a humble and original 13" white macbook... it's beat to hell physically from traveling to every gig with me for years and being carted all over the globe in my backback. It slid off of the top of my FOH console twice over the years and landed hard both times... never missed a beat (literally... it was playing itunes at the time for break music on both occasions). I've kept my software updated over the years, and it [I]is[/I] held together with a fair amount of Gaff Tape now, so I recently retired it from road use and it now lives connected to my big lcd tv. It has Logic on it for mixing and listening at home, still do an occasional bit of Qlab and SM pre-gig work on it, and it kicks butt playing Netflix and Hulu stuff for entertainment (I don't have have cable... 100% online content here). For a computer that I purchased 5 years ago... it is just AWESOME to me that it is still a solid and relevant piece of hardware. The thing about owning an apple computer for me compared to owning the multitude of other computers I have had... is that after 5 years of owning the little macbook. . . I still LOVE to use the thing. It's silly in our industry especially, to care at all about a given piece of hardware, but like Tim, I would be heartbroken if someone ripped off my little old macbook. That intrepid little macbook went on a lot of cool gigs, trips and generally made my life easier and made me a lot of money over the years... and it never once asked for anything other then a new battery in return. Some people may hate the apple designs and concepts, but as someone who uses professional grade tech tools daily, I like the fact that when I pick up my laptop, it feels like someone actually gave a shit when they designed it. The advances that apple has made in unibody construction techniques in the past years have proven again and again that these guys REALLY care about the products they offer for sale. Sorry for the long post... I just got home from a bit of a boring and long gig. [/QUOTE]

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