10 Reasons I Love My MacBook

Arguably the Best Designed Laptop Out There

1. Ease of use - When I bought the MacBook, i had never touched a Mac before. Ever. I opened up the box and braced myself for the steep learning curve I expected from a completely foreign operating system. Learning to use the MacBook comfortably took about five minutes.

2. It's really light. I can put it in a backpack or a briefcase and walk around with it. Very easily. Some of my friends have IBM Thinkpads, which are like a MacBook that doesn't work glued to a biology textbook.

3. Battery life - My favorite coffee shop has no outlets, but my MacBook lets me sit there and work for hours. It's great.

4. Preloaded software - it comes with everything except PowerPoint. Need to watch movies on the MacBook? It already has the program. Need to manage photos on the MacBook? It already has a program. Need to edit and produce a feature length DVD with all original soundtrack recorded in your garage, burn the whole thing to DVD, design nice cover art for it, and put up a professional quality website to promote the movie? The MacBook already has the program(s)

5. The F9 key. On Mac, if you press F9, all of the windows separate and shink, so that you can see them all and pick the one you need. F10 does the same thing, but only effects windows that are associated with the current application, and F11 hides everything so you can get to the desktop.

6. The mouse - The mouse on a MacBook is great. It's responsive, and best of all, if you touch it in any two places and move your fingers, you can scroll in any direction.

7. It's fast. Most consumer level laptops are painfully slow, like old lady crossing the street in front of your car when you're already late for work slow, or like the president writing a speech on foreign policy slow. The MacBook is fast. Like the Energizer Bunny on crystal meth.

8. It's reliable - I've had it for over a year, and it HAS NEVER CRASHED. period. not once. I can seldom get through a day without my windows computer crashing, or at least needing to be restarted.