Anyone who knows me at all, knows that my MacBook is an actual appendage.  Rosie the cat certainly knows this since she and the laptop are constantly vying for my warm lap.

I have been an Apple user since those early days when Apple, which was just situated down the road in Cupertino, put  their computers into classrooms.  Lots of old teachers, like me, have used every new model since.

I remember the first one.  It looked like this:

It had no mouse (which Apple created and was subsequently appropriated by everyone else) and the up and down arrows were used to navigate. It sat at the back of my classroom at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Day School.  The dot-matrix printer, which looked like this:

was constantly clicking away as students printed out banners for bake sales and pep rallies.

My mentor for this equipment was a brilliant and charming student named A.R. Jones.  I remember his mother’s Christmas present to him that year was a modem.  I had no clue what it was.

In the years that followed, lawsuits were filed when the folks at Microsoft mis-appropriated mouses, an Apple innovation,  and “Windows” which was always an integral part of Macs.   Being a purist, I will not have anything Microsoft on my computer.  It’s just a matter of principal on my part.

I loved reading in Time this morning while in my bath about the new CEO of Apple, Tim Cook.  It reads  “he doesn’t look like the CEO of Apple, he looks more like an apple product: quiet, tidy, carefully curated, meticulously tooled  and at the same time strangely warm and inviting  .  .  .  Like an Apple product, Cook runs smooth and fast.”  That’s what I like.