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Maybe the easiest switch ever

Girl from my Linguistics class
Wow, that laptop is so cute! It’s tiny.
Chris
Yup.
Girl
I’ve been looking to get a laptop for a while, but they’re all, like, three grand.
Chris
Yeah. Try the campus computer store, you get a pretty decent student discount for stuff there.
Girl
Really? How much is one like that?
Chris
Ummm… about seventeen–hundred, I think.
Girl
Shit, you’re kidding me. Oh, it’s an Apple. I don’t really ‘do’ Apples.
Chris
Yeah, I used to use Windows but I switched over about a year ago. It takes about a month to get used to all the little differences, though.
Girl
It’s so cute though! It looks really light, is it light? Can I lift it up? [lifts it up] That’s so cool, it’d fit in my bag. It doesn’t have a CD burner in it though, does it?
Chris
Yeah, it does.
Girl
Oh, cool. How about a DVD player?
Chris
Yep.
Girl
Can you open up Word files?
Chris
Yeah; you can get Office for it, so you can do whatever — PowerPoint, Word, Excel, whatever.
Girl
That’s awesome. I’m gonna go have a look in the computer store this afternoon.
Chris
Do you have a digital camera?
Girl
Yeah
Chris
They have this program on them called iPhoto; once you use that you’ll never be able to turn back
Girl
Heh. We’ll see.

During the lecture I had a quick peek at the AU Apple Education Store to make sure I’d told her the right price. As it turns out, you’d pay US$1700 for a 12" PowerBook, not AU$1700… so I was a little off.

Chris
Hey, it turns out that the ones like mine, the PowerBooks, are actually twenty–four hundred… but they’ve been upgraded since I got mine, so they have a bunch of new features and whatnot. You can get a white one though, an iBook, for fifteen hundred though.
Girl
Oh. Well I’ll go have a look anyway.

Five days later, at our next lecture…

Girl
I’m getting an Apple! A cute little white one. Y’know yours is, like, special? With the metal casing?
Chris
Uh, yeah.
Girl
I’m so excited.

Further proof that price is still the deciding factor in any computer purchase. Still don’t know her name, though.