I write an editorial on a website for wannabe Mac owners called MacDesperate. I copy-pasted the entire thing here just to give my own blog an update. I could’ve come with something original, I know, but screw you anyway…

Hi there! You still here? Me neither. Well I am now, but that’s not the point.

Anyway, we’ve had some developments during the last few months, mostly consisting of El Jobso doing several keynotes announcing new and exciting things like the iPhone 4, the iPad, the new Apple TV and last but not least OS X Lion.

As Apple fans and aspiring Apple users, we all know about this stuff. So I’m not going to bore you with endless analyses about things like what shade of grey they used on the back of the iPad, or how they seemingly added blurry effects in OS X Lion when you use Mission Control.

No, I’m going to bore you with an update about my agonizing road to Macness: an endless quest full of (mostly financial) obstacles and disappointments. Yes dear reader, it really is becoming an agonizing experience. Forget the constant war and suffering in the middle-east, the lack of human rights in countries like Myanmar, and the hunger and disease in Africa: this is much, much worse. (FYI, this is called sarcasm. Thought you ought to know)

Why? Well my goal to save money for my own Mac isn’t coming much closer. I’ve been here for nearly a year and the meter is still stuck on 23 Euros. So I must be doing something wrong (“ya think?”). In fact, I need to adjust my goal because the price doesn’t add up with the current line of iMacs. It’s gone up from € 1,241 to € 1,544, mainly because they’ve started using new Intel processors, and I’d like to upgrade mine from i3 to i5. So the sneaky bastards actually made the iMac more expensive than the earlier models. No wonder they didn’t announce this during a keynote.

So what am I going to do to raise some more money? Well, first thing: get an internship where they actually give you money while you work there. That might help…I think. Second: maybe get a job till I actually start with my internship, cause it might take a while before I’ve found something.
So that’s basically my plan for the near future. Let’s hope it actually works this time.

There is some good news to tell though. They finally bothered to open a (semi) real Apple store in my city! It’s still a reseller, because Apple doesn’t do retail in Holland for some reason, but it does look like the ones you see in the US…minus things like the genius bar, workshop area and a huge glass cube on the street, but it’s a start.

But there’s even better news. Remember my iPhone thingies post from last spring? Where I said that it wasn’t really worth to buy an iPhone because it’s got a crappy camera without flash, no multitasking, loads of crashing apps and a horribly expensive contract? Well I’m a huge hypocrite now cause I actually bought myself an iPhone 4! I somehow managed to lose my old phone, so I had to get a new one anyway, and this seemed like the best choice for me.
Now Apple did manage to fix nearly all the problems I mentioned above…more or less. Plus, I managed to get a 1-year contract instead of a 2-year one, which makes me slightly more comfortable, but I still have the feeling that I’m being an idiot for paying 30 Euros a month for not calling anyone.

An idiot with an iPhone 4 though… ;)