Help me get a mac book!

[mw84]

I'd do what Lt said sell a couple of your old machines to cover the cost. You can't expect your parents to just splash out £1400 because you want a newest toy. Is it your birthday or something?

[Factor41]

Originally Posted by nixgeek

Find an old Apple II and play Lemonade Stand.

Well, a year in and I have $620.73. Not a MacBook granted, but an Intel MacMini to play with ain't half bad for some sugary fruit drinks and a street-full of thirsty workers.

Originally Posted by CJ MAC OSX IPOD

Please post idea's to persuade my parents to buy me a mac.

Dude, you have four Macs, at least one of which (if your nick is anything to go by) is good enough to run OS X. What machines are they? Let us feel your pain.

I too have lots of Macs and am considering getting a MacBook, but that's only because I genuinely need a portable solution for sorting photos and my PBG3 is having real issues with these newfangled operating systems and can't run without mains power.

I had a paying job when I was 13. There are plenty of jobs for 13-year olds and they're generally not too stressful and don't require degree-level skill sets. There's a whole world of time to do these things too if you turn off the XBox.

[davebz]

I have an idea, sell one or two of those macs and then ask your parents if they would help you buy a small amount of gold for investment purposes. The way gold prices are going, you won't have to buy much of it. Say even one half of an ounce. A year from now you might gain at least a 30 percent return on it. And while you let it sit, you could start a paper route.
---Just an idea---

[Lt Major Burns]

if my memory serves me, he has an iMac G5, a mac mini, a B+W G3 Power Mac and i think a powerbook/ibook. either way it's all worth about 3 times the price of a macbook.

[Factor41]

Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

if my memory serves me, he has an iMac G5, a mac mini, a B+W G3 Power Mac and i think a powerbook/ibook. either way it's all worth about 3 times the price of a macbook.

In which case, either sell what you've got or be content with being a spoilt kid, rather than a greedy spoilt kid. Not much of a choice, I know, you you've made your bed... or got your maid to do it for you.

[sinclair_tm]

lol, i just have to laugh at this one. i've already had my say to this kid in an older thread. all i have to say now is that i mad it through high school on my dad's mac+ (i'm a 96' grad), then in collage i was able to get my hands on a quadra 800 (about 2000). and it took me 5yrs to go from that quadra to the g4/466 that i have now. and the only way i was able to get that was because i found a guy willing to part with it cheap. i'm sorry, but all i can say is that there is no reason in the world that his parents should get him a macbook, he needs to work himself to death to earn it on his own like i had to to get my macs!

[fryke]

his, him, he -> you. Since it's obvious that cj will read this thread, you can address him as "you".

[RGrphc2]

Originally Posted by sinclair_tm

lol, i just have to laugh at this one. i've already had my say to this kid in an older thread. all i have to say now is that i mad it through high school on my dad's mac+ (i'm a 96' grad), then in collage i was able to get my hands on a quadra 800 (about 2000). and it took me 5yrs to go from that quadra to the g4/466 that i have now. and the only way i was able to get that was because i found a guy willing to part with it cheap. i'm sorry, but all i can say is that there is no reason in the world that his parents should get him a macbook, he needs to work himself to death to earn it on his own like i had to to get my macs!

agreed i saved my way up to buy my Powerbook for about 18 months before i bought it, worked my butt off. next year i want to replace my Dell with a Mini and probably get a 17" MacBook Pro before i graduate college or as a Graduation gift to myself. For everything I have, the Canon i9900, the Nikon Camera, I worked for, overtime and saved pennies for over a year just to get them, while still paying close to $4000 a semester for school on my own, I am just lucky that i commute to school and still living with the 'rents for now.

Its not the machine that makes you creative and get a better job, its what you can do with it.