Apples

I bought a Macbook Pro from the Apple store last summer. It is just a laptop but there are a few differences. Firstly the price- about 3 times more than a standard laptop. A different operating system, compact and light, long battery life, fast, not so prone to collapse and viruses and nice to look at. It is made out of a solid piece of aluminium.

My learning curve was steep!

If you are thinking about getting one, you are investing in something that will still work fast in 10 years, which is a real positive. There are some great aspects, but I would heartily recommend that you took up the course of lessons offered by Apple to new users. This costs £79 for a year of one to one lessons. (This needs to be bought with the Macbook or Apple computer) Needless to say there is a catch! You can only book up to 2 weeks ahead, and only book one lesson at a time. The lessons are really popular, so it is sometimes hard to get a lesson when you want. The trainers are great in general, but vary!

One word of advice learned from experience is that whilst Apple have the reputation of not getting viruses or suffering from total failure, this is not correct! They need to be backed up just like any other computer. This is made easy by their software called Time Machine which comes as standard. All it requires is for an external hard drive to be plugged in and it does the rest for you. Apple is now one of the largest companies in the world and virus writers are now targeting them ( in the past there were so few users that it wasn't worthwhile!)

I can offer lessons using Apple products, Macbooks and Apple Mac as well as ipods and ipod touch, and iphones.