And what a box it was!
In contrast to the Acer, the Apple box was very “posh”.
Inside, instead of the never-ending pile of PC bits, there were three items:

MacBook Pro - elegantly simply titanium case
Power adapter & cables - even here Apple’s reputation for design shines - the power adapter can slot neatly into the mains […]

I started with a home computer in late ’80s. Can’t remember exactly when, but sometime between ‘88 and ‘90. Lived in Geneva at the time, and bought an Atari 1040 (I think), with eMagic Logic - to produce accompaniment tracks for the church choir I was conducting at the time.
A couple of years later, the […]