As you certainly know by now, I’m a fan of your products. If you were an airline, I would be a Platinum Premier frequent flyer. I’ve bought three laptops, an iMac, three iphones, and at least four iPods in the last 10 years. And (as you’d know if you read my blog), my son is going to college in a month or so.
I wanted/needed to get him a laptop to use at college, instead of the old, slow, Windows XP-running PC desktop. We jointly determined that the MacBook was the appropriate choice. Since it needs to last four years, I decided to get it with as much RAM and disk as I could afford, and include an AppleCare warranty. That was back in May.
Having heard rumors that the MacBook lineup was going to be enhanced at this year’s WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC), we decided to wait until yesterday. Sure enough, the MacBooks are now MacBook Pros, with substantially upgraded RAM and disk specs and (yay!) the addition of a SD card slot (the first non-DVD removable media device on an Apple in, well, forever?). I immediately got online and placed my order, since the machine we wanted now cost $400 less than it did last week.
And there, Apple, that’s where you decided to say, in the biggest, boldest words I can imagine, “WE DO NOT WANT YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS!” I had $2,000 (Note: exactly $2,000—not $2,001) set aside to buy the laptop. With the addition of the accessories and the (free after rebate) iPod Touch, the total came out to be approximately $2,100. No problem; you offer the option to split the charge over two credit cards. I selected that option, and chose to have $2,000 charged to one card, and the remainder to another one.
