First bite of Apple...
It was a three day seminar for Tamil Computing at Anna University, where some 'pisths' ( i.e IIT Professors and Researchers from the companies) have come to collaborate on improving Tamil Language in Computers and make it more easy in computers for people to use i.e "Tamilify the Computer". I was a student of Sona College and with lots of interests in Natural Language Processing and was attending this three day seminar. It was the first time I encountered the most beautiful thing in the computer world. That was the Powerbook G4. So, do anyone have an idea of what it is? Hmm...some might be and some might not. For those who are not aware of this name, it's the predecessor of the today's Apple one of the flagship product MacbookPro. Frankly I didn't even know the name of the old machine (but I know it's from apple), it until 4 months ago and which provoked me to write this.
That was the love at first sight on a machine in my life ( surely after Geetha ;-) ). But at that time, it was a dream for a student to get a computer at his home and this machine costed a lakh. What a dream, went in air...The first catch is, it's body..it's structure ( :-D ) and the iconic "Apple" symbol. Then I got a chance to try out that machine ( means, work with the machine ) and man, during that time after living with the Windows XP and Redhat Linux or Mandrake Linux, Mac OS was like staying in luxury hotel in Vegas. You get things quick, easy and without much pain. It's animation, speed in that machine was impressive. It was that moment somewhere in my Neurons, a thought got registered that I should buy a Mac laptop once I become Big ( "Big" in the slang means, an individual who have his own earnings and have freedom to do whatever crap he can do ). And I started to dream that I should write software programs for this company which makes such machines.
Time flies and I joined TCS and it's been 3 years, I literally archived the thought of Macbook and settled with an HP laptop in Chennai. So came the opportunity to work at San Antonio,TX. Landed here and in a flash the archived memory was brought live into my mind and in a week after I came to San Antonio, I bought iMac 24", a machine I have dreamed of all these days right from the year 2003 to 2008 and I have a series of Apple product at my home now. And daily I touch them and live with them as well..
Thanks to Apple, it's designers and engineers and Mr.Jobs who have given me such a wonderful piece of machine.
Trivia:
I've seen people praising Steve Jobs for making revolution in Phone & Tablets, but still, they should also remember him for making revolution in Personal Computer (Mac OS, Mac Machine etc.,).
