2005 was the year where I spent most of my little savings on gadgets. I bought my first Apple, a white 12″ iBook G4 in February, a Nokia 6020 in May, and my first digital camera—a pocket Sony Cybershot DSC-T9—in December. They cost me around IDR 18 million combined. Thanks to China, the gadgets prices remain there though the value of our rupiah never came back (due to several inflations in late 2005, 2007 and 2009).
But it was a spending I’m kind of proud of… knowing that all those 3 gadgets are still alive and used until today, except the camera that was mostly parked after I bought my current Lumix six months ago. I’m personally impressed by the durability of the iBook, having previously at my college years had to twice replace my computer’s hard drive in 3.5 years—and God knows how many computer junks will cover the earth if we trash a hard drive every year.
It also convinces me more to keep investing my computer needs on Apple, though I am still yet to find my own reason to buy either an iPod, an iPhone or an iPad. With my interest in photography and compactness I may someday buy the phone, which has a good camera quality as I have seen in my sister’s, another Apple fan in our family.
