Our household computer was a IIe, then an SE, and when I trundled off to college, the first Mac I half-bought, sort of on my own, was an SE/30. (Parents paid for half, hehe.)

Then in either 1992 or '93, I graduated to a IIvx (color! Macintosh! OMG!)… and then, in '96, I moved to the gloriousness that was the Powerbook 1400 (PowerPC! GOES EVERYWHERE!), and it was all over for me and desktop Macs. I’ve been a Powerbook & MacBook fanatic ever since. The 1400 was followed by a Pismo Powerbook G3 in either '99 or 2000, then an iBook G4 (GARAGEBAND, omg omg) in 2003 or '04.

Then a succession of 13" MacBook Pros, culminating in… last year’s M2 MacBook Air, which is, hands down, my favorite Mac ever, ever, ever, in the history of the universe. Runs literally everything I can throw at it, including the occasional Linux or Windows apps I need for client stuff (UTM ftw, hehe), essentially weightless in a backpack… if it ever throttles, I literally never notice.

I can’t possibly love this little guy more. It feels just… utterly perfect, in ways very little else has, since that SE/30, years, and years ago.