My Mac mini was bought in 2007, partly with the refund check that Apple issued to early iPhone adopters like me. I purchased it with the payment from my first paid FileMaker job, so it has some sentimental value. My 20-inch iMac, an original Intel Core Duo model, is the oldest, dating back to 2006. When I moved to New Zealand in 2009, I brought with me three Macs. Let me explain, and perhaps my ponderation can help you with any similar decisions you may have. I find myself in something of a tech crunch, and I don’t know what the correct path is. When the tech itch needed scratching, a quick trip took me to the famed Akihabara electronics shopping district.īut now I’m in New Zealand, making a Kiwi teacher’s wage, and while I’d not give up the life here for anything, maintaining familiarity with Apple’s latest products has become increasingly challenging.

I got into computers, and tech, and Apple in particular, back in the 1990s, when I lived near Tokyo and made a rather generous Japanese salary. Staying current with the tech world requires continual investment, which has become a problem for me, given that, as a teacher in New Zealand, I’m not as flush as once I was. I gave my well-rehearsed answer, the one that explains how an international tech megastar like her Japanese and physics teacher (it’s important to maintain professorial reputation) must keep up with the latest kit in order to be able to speak authoritatively, and she was satisfied with this answer.īut I knew I was prevaricating. Oohs and aahs duly delivered, one of them asked why I had an iPhone, given how terrifyingly expensive they are. There I was at school, patrolling the playing fields as we teachers are required to do a couple of times a week, when a few high school girls who’d had me for Japanese last year asked to me to show them Siri on my iPhone.

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