Opening your bag and taking out a fully-specced MacBook Pro is the ultimate status symbol today, but that wasn’t always the case. Instead, when I first ditched Windows for Mac back in high school, I was teased for it.
It’s been 25 years since I got my first Mac but even to this day, my annoying classmate asking me “why would you even get a Mac?” at the lunch table still stings. You see, I didn’t get a Mac because it was cool, I did so because I had to. That summer before starting high school, I stayed up into the wee hours of the night almost every day unsuccessfully trying to get my Windows PC to “just work.”
