Mister Frug Might buy a Apple product??

 Yes, you read that right; I’m thinking of buying an Apple product! And not just any Apple product, a Macbook! Now, I have owned Apple products in the past...perhaps just one, the Apple shuffle (it was a gift). I guess I also have owned Apple earbuds, just the ones you get with a phone, not the Airpods. In either case, I haven’t owned an Iphone, Mac computer, or really much of anything from Apple. It always seems too expensive to me for what you get.

Perhaps with the M1 Macbook, it is different. Now, I think lots of Mac stuff is expensive, but credit due where deserved, a lot of tech reviewers give the Apple keyboards some of the best marks. Now, since I’m hopefully going to do more writing, I think this is a big plus for me. Apple devices also have nice screens, which is good. The new M1 chipset is interesting as well, I’m not an expert on Apple silicon, but the possibilities of ARM seem kind of cool. And that's probably as articulate as I can get on the subject. 

Some of the negatives of Apple is the lack of gaming on it, which would have been a total deal breaker for me in the past. Well, since I’m trying to do more writing and less gaming, it might be more of a feature than a bug. That is part of why I bought a cheap laptop on aliexpress with a mechanical keyboard (Ricky Rambles Podcast episode here). My problem with this device was that it came with a weird install of windows on it. I was just going to add a dual boot to it and use it as a linux device, well, for the life of me, I couldn’t get it to work. So I’m only signed in on some secondary accounts that I’m not too worried about being hacked.  The battery life is another factor I think the apple device will do better at, the battery on the aliexpress laptop is not very good.

Anyways, full circle, Brooke’s laptop is getting just a little old. It has windows 10 on it and can’t update to 11. My old laptop is 10 years old at this point and kind of worthless. So I do kind of have a gap for a more modern device. This has all been a very rambly post trying to justify a $600 purchase. The one thing that has held me back is one, I just bought a laptop pretty recently, and two, I can buy a windows device with similar specs for quite a bit less. Oh and three, I really would like the laptop to primarily be for writing and business, but business has been really slow. My content just isn’t making money, so it's hard to justify a $600 purchase for an enterprise that isn’t making very much money. Hopefully by the time I actually publish this, my next personal finance book is out and selling well. And then I can get a good laptop. Well, until then.