Dear Old Macbook

You've been a trusty friend. You were there working long hours and staying up for days with me during school submissions. You were there with me when I struggled with my essays. When I first thought of FIVEFOOTWAY and then went on to build it, you were right there, working hard with me. And we were there at Edinburgh making Felicity together.

Despite the technical problems that you were facing, you persevered as I sent hundreds and thousands of emails. You pushed yourself to the limit with those heavy PSD files. And when I worked on my Sketchup and Archicad files, you choked and struggled but you never gave up.

Soon, you found that you had battery-charging disorder and you just couldn't hold any form of battery charge but did you give up? No. You stayed strong and survived on life support (more commonly known as direct power source). All the way, your body started to show signs of aging. No matter how much I cleaned, there were black spots on your wrist rest. Scratches were aplenty and the keyboard was yellowing. But did you give up? No.

Then everything became much worse. Your motherboard gave problems and it stopped detecting the Airport Card. There was no wireless internet connection on you. I needed to restart you many many times before it will start working again. But it was obvious you were slowly dying. As time passed, the problems got worse. You stopped functioning and your system malfunctioned many times. Despite my efforts to run system maintenace and reformatting your hard-disk, your problems wouldn't go away. You knew you were dying but that didn't mean that you would work any less hard.

One day, your Airport Card stopped functioning completely and together we had to brave weeks without Internet together.

And now, the new Macbook is here. It looks so much like you.

I'm glad to see that you're passing on your knowledge, data and settings to the new Macbook so that I can go on with life normally now. As you age, I'm sure I will find a new use for you.

Here are some photos of you and the new macbook that we took. You will always have a special place,my first Mac.





Cheers,
Adib