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Macs. Thank you.

I’ve been a Macintosh user since 1987 — the photo above shows my very first Mac and the one I’m using now. I bought the first one purely for its size — we lived in a 2-room flat and I needed a computer that would fit on the desk in the corner of our living/dining …

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Posted byMarian Dougan7 October 20118 July 2014Posted inLife and work and everything elseTags: Apple, computers, Jonathan Ive, Life and work, Macs, Steve Jobs1 Comment on Macs. Thank you.

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