I’ve recently become a Mac convert. It took me a while to get there, but the first time I held a MacBook Air in my arms, I fell for it, hard. I was out shlepping through Best Buy, in desperate need of a new laptop for non-work work, such as photo editing, writing projects, email and browsing, etc. I poked at almost every PC laptop and hated every single one of them in a different way. To be fair, they were all running Windows 8, which is a misbegotten abomination. I threw up my hands in despair, but as a last resort went to the nearby Apple store. Walked in, saw a MacBook Air, put my hands on it, and swooned. A nearby Apple Genius came over and said “May I help you?” and I said, “I’ll take one of these.”

A few months after that, a colleague revealed shyly that he had switched to a MacBook Pro Retina 13 for all his work (software development, same as me). My jaw hit the floor – were we allowed to DO that? I cancelled my afternoon meetings, rushed to the Apple store again, and emerged a half hour later with the Retina 13 under my arm. The rest is history my friends. I always dress up my laptops, so that nobody at a coffee shop or airport can say, “oh, I thought it was mine”. As with everything Mac, you can get awesomely fun stickers. Since I’ve always been a huge Banksy fan, that was for the Pro, and a camera for my Air, which is where I do photo work. Et voila..