When I was in my second year of university at Brock, I found myself in a rather grand predicament towards the end of the first semester. Exams were roughly two weeks away, from what I can remember, and upon packing up my things to head back to St. Catharines after coming home to see my family for the weekend, I realized I needed to put some fuel in my pickup.
For some reason, I opened the back door of my truck when I was filling it up, and my backpack, which was leaning against the door, unbeknownst to me until I opened the door, fell out and landed on the ground. I thought nothing of it and drove back to Niagara, and when I got everything unloaded from my truck into my student home and opened up my PC laptop, I may have had a brain aneurysm.
When my backpack toppled out of my truck onto the gravel, the screen of my laptop shattered. I wasn’t able to use my laptop to any extent, and because all of my notes and study materials were on this laptop for my exams, I knew I had to figure out a solution, and rather quickly. I found a computer repair shop in the city and took my laptop there, only to learn that the cost to fix the screen was over half of what I paid for the entire laptop, and, furthermore, that it would not be fixed for at least a month.
Thank God my classmates were kind enough to share their study materials with me since I was unable to access my own, but I was still without a computer. I went to the Brock campus store and ended up purchasing a Mac, and, at the time, it was extremely costly.
I purchased my Macbook Air in 2014, and the thing is still going strong. Unfortunately, it is too old at this point to support software updates, so I will have to invest in a new one. But, considering this Mac has lasted me over ten years, I absolutely think they’re worth the money. I haven’t had a single issue with it aside from it being too old to undergo new updates.
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