I’m moving on to my 6th Mac in a few days, and while most people would think that I’ve been a Mac user for at least 10 years based upon, that, in fact, I’ve only been one for a little less than a year. It was only last year that I finally was able to get together the spare money for an old eMac. From there, I couldn’t be satisfied.

It all started when iMovie began to freeze quite a bit. After less than 3 months of the eMac, I went in search of an iMac G5, which I planned to pay for mainly by selling the eMac. When I did find a G5 (for $600) I had barely had it for 4 days when I noticed that annoying high-pitched whine that some G5s have. I couldn’t stand it. I sold the iMac, making a $200 profit.

Now using my eMac again, I searched for a MacBook. I found a great deal, this MacBook for $650. I loved it, but Icouldn’t use it as a main computer. The graphics were much too slow, and the screen was too small. If I had had the money at the time, I would have definetely kept it to supplement my next purchase, but I just couldn’t.

I was having trouble selling the MacBook, but suddenly it all came together. In a matter of four hours, I sold the MacBook for $815, another $200 profit, and bought a 17″ Intel iMac for $730. I thought that I might finally be satisfied, but this 17″ screen didn’t seem nearly as expansive as my previous 17 incher had. I bought an iMac Core Duo, a 20″ computer, and once again satiated my Mac wants. After a bit of time, I finally got a buyer for the 17″ iMac, and made a more modest $50 profit.

I was sure I’d be good to go with my 20″ iMac for a while, but the time has come again to move on. I have just sold my current iMac for $850 (coming out just about even) and bought a 20″ aluminum iMac for about $1000. I would have liked the 24″, but that is beyond my reach right now.

Maybe in another few months…

Updates: I’ve since bought yet another MacBook to add a mobile component, and scrapped it within a few days (I can’t stand having multiple sets of data on different computers.) I then bought a MacBook Pro and 23″ Apple Cinema Display.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 11th, 2008 at 3:26 pm and is filed under All About Me, Apple and Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.