This is unbelievable, probably the longest post I’ve written in my entire blogging life especially I’ve been slack for quite a long time, but no choice lah coz the topic is my love topic. :P
As we know, Steve Jobs passed away earlier. He’s my idol since the first time I know about the Apple products, iPod Nano 3rd Gen. Ever since then, I watched the keynote from Endgadget/Gizmodo whenever I can. I’ve decided to write a post about my Apple journey to express my deepest respect to Mr Steve Jobs, so here we go.
Before I start my first Apple product, I was actually exposed by my dad with his iBook G4 a couple of years ago, which he borrowed from his school to show me. The first thing that impressed me a lot was the solidness of white plastic body, the glowing Apple logo, followed by the beautiful Mac OS sidebar. Unfortunately, this wonderful product did not last for a week in my house due to Mac OS Leopard. My dad was a long time windows user and he doesn’t familiar with Mac OS Leopard. Hence he returned to school and exchanged with another Windows laptop.
So, what was your first Apple product? Well, as I mentioned above, mine was an iPod Nano 3rd Gen 8GB Black colour. I bought it for RM849 from Machines, Mid Valley in the year 2007. It was well packed under a very simple yet elegance transparent box. The 3rd gen of iPod Nano was the newly launched product and I was deeply attracted by it. The 2” screen with shorter, wider body, cover flow playing method, & click wheel. Awesome features. When the first time I used the iPod Nano, the screen resolution did make me a big Wow with very clear and real display. A very big difference with my previous MP3/MP4 MIC(Made in China) music player.
At 2009, I couldn’t stand anymore the hotness on my arm rest area of my 3 years old Compaq Presario V3000 laptop. I bought my second Apple product, Macbook White (Late’09, 2.26GHz Core2Duo) model for RM3599 from Machines, Sunway Pyramid. As usual, the well packaging from Apple did impressed again. The transparent plastic that let you lift up the Macbook from the box was so convenient. The first start-up of laptop, with the welcome page make me feel so ‘home’. Not to forget the awesome White keyboard, Glowing Apple logo like how iBook G4 did, 13” LED Glossy screen & more. Of course, the Macbook is still serving me well till now.
I’m also a fan of iPhone since the iPhone 2G was out in the market in 2007 (if I’m not mistaken the year). It isn’t popular in Malaysia at that time and weren’t available to get as well. My first touch for the iPhone was the iPhone 3G, which owned by my gf. She bought it from Australia when she was still study there. Great phone I hold that time. Okay let’s cut short my story of molesting the iPhone 3G, I actually bought my first ever iPhone last year in 2010, the iPhone 4. I believe that a lot of you were impressed by the awesome features presented by Steve Jobs in the keynote at 2010. I, myself was impressed as well. I bought it on 31 July, 2010 which is the first day launched in Australia, on behalf of my friends who happened to travel at there. The price was AUD$799 for my 16GB Black iPhone 4. The best and awesome handphone ever I would say. Then after a year of using it, I changed to the White iPhone 4 16GB few months ago, somewhere in June/July from Maxis and still using it now. The iPhone 4 did change my life in the social network, and changed my point of view for the smartphone. Before using the iPhone I never thought that I’m able to buy movie ticket online, facebook on-the-go, twitter, surfing net, and even blogging, too! In conclusion, a great invention, Apple!
Since I’m the Apple fans, you must be very curious about iPad now. What about iPad? Well, I’m the iPad user as well. I bought my iPad 1 32GB Black Wi-fi version in December, 2010 from Epicentre, KL convention centre during a fair. The price was RM1849 at that time. It’s another awesome product from Apple (Yay I apple fanboy everything Apple sure awesome lah :P). But this really changed my light browsing usage. I can now surfing with bigger screen anywhere, as long as there’s internet available.
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Half a year later, I sold my iPad for RM1300 to a forummer after 6 months of usage. I bought the iPad 2 32GB White Wi-fi version for RM1799 from Apple online store, Malaysia. I did engraved ‘Apple Addict’ as suggested by my gf on my iPad 2. The iPad 2 is indeed lighter & faster than the previous iPad 1. Unfortunately, I lost my iPad 2 during my Australia trip back in August, 2011. I feel like killing myself (just kidding), and I couldn’t live without my iPad 2. Therefore, I bought another iPad 2 32GB Black Wi-fi version after I returned from Australia. It’s been a baby to me and my gf until now. :)
My current iPadLastly, my apple collection until today is the Steve Jobs’ Biography. I assumed most of the fans would get it for collection, although it’s not an official product from Apple.inc. I bought it from Popular Bookstore for RM69.95, after 30% discount from RM99.90. Read for a couple page for the first day and stopped until now, probably it gonna takes quite some time for me to finish it.
So, I’ve introduced you guys about my Apple journey up to Nov, 2011. What about yours? Mind to share with me. Are you guys getting iPhone 4s? I will probably skip for the 4S this time and stick with my iPhone 4 White, until the release of iPhone 5 (probably June/July 2012).
I would call myself an Apple fans but not that kind of die-hard fans. I did not buy the iMac, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, iPod Touch, iPod shuffle just for collection though. But for time being after I retired my Macbook White, would probably consider a Macbook Pro, Macbook Air or an iMac.
Ciao. RIP, Steve Jobs.
