Convince Your Parents to Buy You an Apple Macbook
Many people prefer Apple computers, Macs, over those running Windows or Linux, mainly because of its elegant design, features, and integration with iPhone. Usually, it is harder to get a Mac because they are much more expensive than Windows and Linux devices, and many parents do not want to pay a great deal of money. Here are some ideas on how to convince your parents to buy you an Apple laptop, a MacBook Pro or a MacBook Air, and not just any computer.
Steps
- Start this process around Christmas or your birthday. You usually get presents on your birthday and Christmas, and they're often quite expensive and delightful. These are the best times of the year and you have more of a chance to get a Mac. Asking for an expensive present any other time, will lower your chance of getting it, and your parents may think you are spoiled.
- Be against Microsoft products. You want a Mac. Show your parents you love Apple and not Windows PC or Microsoft.
- Show your excitement around Apple products. Have a friend bring a Mac (recommended) or another Apple product over to show you and your parents. Act fascinated around it to show your parents.
- If you have a non-Apple laptop already, don't spend all your free time on it. The point of this is that parents may think that you are just obsessed with all computers, and they may think that your life is just lazing around glued to that computer. Show off your Mac experiences, if you don't like PCs. or your iMac
- Don't be obsessed with computers. Show how well you take care of other things. Then your parents will know that your life is just being on the computer all day. Don't talk about computers. Talk about Macs when you talk about computers, but do so sparingly.
- Don't talk about electronics constantly. Your parents will think you are obsessed with electronics, and you will have an ugly life not getting a MacBook for years, when your parents don't want you to have an electronics "obsession".
- Strongly imply your dislike towards desktop computers. The point of this is to show that you want a MacBook and not an iMac. Love laptops more than a desktop, and show your parents that you don't want an Apple iMac, Mac Pro, or a Mac Mini.
- Use patience and don't hurry things. Be very organized in school. Don't rush through tedious tasks such as school work just to get them done. Show your parents that you are behaving well and show them you are responsible enough for one.
- Get good grades! Remember your books, notes and assignments! Getting good grades can lead you to a reward. Your parents will think that you are industrious, if you are a straight A student. Then they could give you a MacBook as a surprise!
- Exercise more. Your parents will think that you are not lazy. Show your parents that you want a Mac as an amazing gift that you will really appreciate, but that your entire life isn't devoted to electronics.
- Be obedient, helpful and a self-starter without parents telling you to clean and straighten your room. If your parents tell you to do some chores, do them when they tell you. Don't tell them you will do something unless you are going to do it right away, and not leave it for later and forget about it.
- Prove that you are a good listener who does things that they have already indicated that they want, even the most boring chores are accepted and done well.
- Show them the value. There are many places to buy Macbooks. Get the cheapest one by shopping for the price/discount. MacMall and Best Buy are often more expensive than buying it from Apple. Buy it from Apple, refurbished from Apple, Ebay, if you or your parents know a lot about computers and are willing to deal with a possible problem seller, or Buy.com.
- Highlight the value of AppleCare and being able to bring in your laptop to an Apple retail location for timely service rather than shipping your laptop off to Dell/Texas and waiting weeks for it. Not only are the locations good for warranty service, but the reps there are friendly and willing to help you with all sorts of problems that you'd have to pay outrageous amounts for at somewhere like Best Buy. The Macbooks will likely not get any viruses and last for years, unlike their PC counterparts. You're reading this so you're probably not a PC-geek, and you want a computer that isn't going to have you pulling your hair out on the weekends.
Tips
- Avoid being a stubborn child: be quick to obey. They will decide that you work hard and deserve this reward.
- Show that you love learning/and school by voluntarily studying and doing homework without being "nagged and coaxed" to help influence your parents to purchase a MacBook.
- Don't drop loads of hints at once. Do it gently and softly over time.
- Help your parents pay for it: "It is expensive; so I want to buy it at the lowest price such as from eBay, and I'll have a garage sale to help pay for it."
- Don't use your PC until your parents respond. Just drop hints and wait until your parents say, "Why isn't he/she using his/her PC? Does he/she hate PCs?"
- Tell your parents that you are bored of PCs and using a desktop. Your parents will see and know the truth. Don't lie. They will know when you really want to switch from PC to Mac/from desktop to laptop.
- The cheaper Macbooks in each class comparable favorably to nice rival laptops. But the more expensive ones are a lot more money for not a lot more computer - and are less elegant and effortlessly portable.
- Try an older, cheap laptop to see if you like one as your primary computer before you take the plunge on a Macbook. The Macbook will be more polished, but laptops are years behind properly-equipped desktops for Play Online for Hours Without End and, being in one piece, inherently have poorer ergonomics.
- You can tell your parents that you need it for projects in high-school or university. Note that Apple offers discounts on MacBooks for university students.
- Tell your parents this: "I would like to use my MacBook while travelling on long trips, on a flight or car trips."
- If your parents take you laptop shopping, only hint towards apple products.
- Find something else to enjoy while you're waiting.
- There are a range of different MacBook models out there (MacBook/ MacBook Air etc.) Do your research and find the model you want. Also explain your reasons to your parents on why its the ideal MacBook (and laptop) for you
- Get familiar with Apple Mac Operating System beforehand. Try the MacBook out in stores or borrow it from friends.
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