I came, I saw, I bought . . .
I’m toying with the idea of buying a MacBook. But I have no valid reason to buy a MacBook. I currently own a nice widescreen Sony Vaio notebook which is in perfect working condition but I’m still ’seeing’ a Mac. If you ask me why, I’d say I love the style and elegance of a Mac. It’s so sophisticated that I can’t stop loving it. Above all, I just want to own a Mac. So there’s the reason why I want to buy a Mac. By now, you’d have got a fair idea of what kind of buyer I am.
I’ve always been like that. If I want something I just buy that. But the good thing is I don’t want so many things. And I never buy anything beyond my means. If something that’s very very affordable for me, all that it matter is if I want that. I need no reason, rationale or any such thing to make a purchase. Many a times, it looks completely arrogant and stupid but I just buy if I want to.
That also means that I do very less background work before I end up making a purchase. Sometimes I just google around too much to convince myself that I’m taking a very well informed decision but the fact that they matter only if I’m undecided. Or basically all I want to do is to find supportive arguments and positive vibrations. If I’ve pretty much decided to buy anything, I don’t care how many negative reviews the product has got nd why people run miles away from this product. I know looks are deceptive and all that. What clicks for me is not the looks, but also the X-factor that makes me think that I should buy it.
Many have called me an impulsive buyer. But I think I’m an intuitive buyer. I make instant judgments which always come correct. You can say that I have the eye for such things or simply say that I’m either incredibly lucky or I have psychic powers. As I look around my drawing room, I see that every damn thing that I’ve bought have been bought with ‘let me buy it’ style of shopping. May be that’s one reason I just don’t spend too much time for shopping. I just come, I see and I purchase.
If that looks like too much financial freedom for a married man, I must tell you that it doesn’t come that easily. You should know how to get your way around. I’m sure you know it all – repetitive references, building up the need, display of desparation, offer of sacrifices so on and so forth. As I said, I never try to go beyond my means, which prevents a lot of convincing around.
In a way, I can say that I pamper myself. I don’t deny myself anything that I want and I can get. Everyone has this little boy or girl in them, who makes them wish, desire, adore and long for little things and big things. And there is also this responsible and cautious (boring) old man or woman in us who keeps reminding us how expensive it is or why we can certainly live without it. I’d say I let the little boy rule over the old man every single time.
Why do you need a new laptop? What’s wrong with this? Didn’t you buy this Sony Vaio for 70k and said that this is all you needed? Don’t go around wasting money if you don’t know what to do with it. Invest money, buy jewellery, buy assets or at least save money for a rainy day. What does a Mac give you now? All that you do is browsing right. You’ve got your DVD player and TataSky plus for movies, you’ve got XBOX 360 for gaming and you don’t work at home and all that you’ve gonna do with your comp is just browse the net and this Sony Vaio is more than enough for that.
Er . . I want that, so I’m buying that.
Did you finally buy it ?
Sooo.. Finally bak with mac…!!!
What a coincidence – You are excused for all the delay just because I am also in the same page from past few weeks to go or not to go for mac. Its alluring when ever I see in advt or in news paper. I did spent, discussed, analyzed from past few weeks, but as well compared/said my inner old man says its expensive, is it req?, are you mad.? is that worth.? mom asusual a big NO etc… but as usual I am a impulsive buyer at times and my inner little boy
governed my inner old man & made his mouth shut and I am going for it this Sep as Apple releases new products in 1st week of sep and will bring down the prices of existing products.
Here are the highlights FYI:
- You can do windows partition too along with mac OS
- It never hangs
- Its paradise for photos, movies & multimedia (iLife s/w is genius)
- Its light weight, cute, stylish & having most advanced features
- Yet to dig into details of Web server, MS Prog Languages & Java Applications
Before you go out of your financial freedom from your better half just buy it (in Sep), You will love it I promise. I go to mall every week just to feel its elegance, classy, comfort again & again.
Well, I think I was true to what I said. I went and bought a HDTV instead of the Macbook
But, that doesn’t mean that the macbook is out of my radar!
Hi Vijay,
Back to blogging.. thats good.. hope you had a good vacation. I am currently having one. I turning this comment session into a chat session so let me stop here.
I know that you buy what your heart tells you.. just do it kind, almost entirely opposite to me.. Its true that there is a child in everybody but the old man takes over for me most of the time. I would categorise myself a cautious buyer… not an impulsive one.. very few things I have bought impulsively.. even if I am tempted to buy something, I just mull over it for sometime to gauge the interest levels on that thing before I go for it.. secondly I have a big mental block to buy something very expensive.. somehow I cant make up my mind that easily on buying things like a 70k Sony Vaio or 100k Mac.. it would take a very strong reasoning to buy..
I wish you all the best for your MAC.
PS: I am always ready to help you by picking up the Sony Vaio, free of cost, as and when you think it is useless for you!! My humble contribution to avoid electronic waste and green environment!!
I second that motion!
Windows machines come dime a dozen. A Mac is elusive. Exciting. Sophisticated.
Plus, Macs are designed with user-friendliness in mind. I have experienced a MacBook in my college, and I daresay that I have been in love with Macs ever since! The Apple guys have worked hard to make sure that a Mac makes all the right noises to the user. They have created a system for the select few – those who dare buy it!
Vijay..!
R U There or drowsy with mac around.???
Wonder whats so sophisticated abt having MAC when the machine comes like a naked girl and need to buy the inventory of software which adds upto 20% of the cost. God bless VMware and we can virtualize the OS. There is nuttin critical about this blog .I remember reading about buying toy for your kid and hence I assume you are married and splurging on MAC just for the thrill of ” I have MAC,you see” in the free wifi zones is of no use. Eat it and I count you into the victim of a perfect apple marketing.
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Arun
It’s clear that we have different opinions. You seem to make too many assumptions. I’m sure you may not know what kind of user I am, what kind of applications I may need. I have no kicks in saying ‘I have MAC, you see’. I’m way too old for that kind of thought. You may not know that I trust the users’ feedback than the marketing efforts.
I like MAC. How simple is that?