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oldbookhunter · 2007-01-19 7:16 am

I saw a post today from a recent Mac "convert" today and it reminded me of last year when I got my first Mac. I was curious what people's first Mac's were and what their experience was with them.

Although I always preferred Macs over PCs, I hadn't seen anything before that I could justify the initial expense. My first Mac was just last year when they released the MacBook. The moment I saw it on the website I fell in love with it. In fact my MacBook was the last one of the first batch of 20 black MacBooks the store closest to me had gotten in. I swear they got sick of me calling every other day asking if they had gotten any in yet.

It was when I got it home and started working with it, everything changed. It was a little rough at first, but in a good way. I had to get the rule through my head "it's always easier on a Mac". Everything I wanted to do was always easier than I thought it would be. Even the initial setup was incredible. In 45minutes I had everything set up, was hooked up to my home network, signed up for .mac, and even had all the updates installed. I had set aside so much time thinking it was going to be really difficult that all I could do for the next little while was stare and "oooo" and "ahhhhh" at it. I was stunned into inactivity...lol

It took me months just to explore the software built into OS X. Every time I thought I needed to get software I found out I could do it with the built in software. It wasn't until recently that I started going beyond the basics and looking for advanced stuff to use on it.

jeff-o · 2007-01-19 7:26 am

My first mac was an LC630, back in 1995. My mom still uses it for bookkeeping!

Alien · 2007-01-19 7:50 am

PowerBook 100.

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Funkey Monkey · 2007-01-19 7:55 am

Mine was a Performa 550, back in 1993. I used it all the way until 2001! (Eight years ain't bad for computer longevity.)

Then I bought an iBook in 2001, which is still going strong. (Six years for a laptop ain't bad, either!)

dastardly · 2007-01-19 7:56 am

I bought my first Mac in 2002 and still use it today. It's a 700 Mhz eMac G4. I just recently upgraded to OSX 10.4, upped the RAM to 1 gig, and installed a new 120 gig HD. It's like a new computer.

I was going to buy a new Mac this spring, but the change in my eMac is so amazing that I may hold off until December or next spring.

w p h · 2007-01-19 8:18 am

iBook G4 1.33 GHz 14" 512 MB RAM
Now I have a MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz 13" Widescreen 2 GB RAM

dv · 2007-01-19 8:26 am

Macintosh Plus, in 1992 - although I had used them before that, dating back to around '89, and my dad bought his SE in 1990.

thume · 2007-01-19 8:27 am

First Mac I ever regularly used was a Classic II at school.
First one we owned at home was a PowerMac 6500 225mhz.

nayrk · 2007-01-19 8:35 am

First used was the Apple II, first owned would be a PowerBook G4

Onanum · 2007-01-19 8:37 am

A Mac SE with a 10Mb SCSI hard drive back in 1988, who else remembers playing Dark Castle or a hypercard game called the Manhole?.

ptervin · 2007-01-19 8:45 am

The Macintosh 128k or 512k (thanks dvpierce)...probably the earlier.

Oldest running...the Mac SE/30 (or at least I think it still runs...haven't tried it in awhile.)

Cheers,
ptervin...ah, to be old

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dv · 2007-01-19 8:48 am

Onanum wrote:
A Mac SE with a 10Mb SCSI hard drive back in 1988, who else remembers playing Dark Castle or a hypercard game called the Manhole?.

Crystal Quest, Bizzatch!

ptervin wrote:
The Macintosh 128k or 518k...probably the earlier.

512k.

B.S. · 2007-01-19 9:05 am

Performa 6320CD (they added the CD part at the end because it was such a big deal that it had a CD drive).
Man that thing was unreliable even when it was brand new. But I was so excited to have it! I still have the TV tuner card from it as that was the best part of that machine.
That Sears Card I bought it with will finally be payed off this year!!!!
12 years later!!!!

Alien · 2007-01-19 9:12 am

nayrk wrote:
First used was the Apple II, first owned would be a PowerBook G4

An Apple II isn't a Mac.

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TheMouthOfSauron · 2007-01-19 9:29 am

My family's first machine was a Mac II back in 1988. None of my PC-using friends would believe it had 5 MB of RAM and displayed 256 colors. The first I owned personally was a Power Mac 8500 in 1995.

dvpierce wrote:
Crystal Quest, Bizzatch!

You know it! big_smile Did you know there's a remake on Xbox Live Arcade? It includes a "classic mode" with all of the original graphics and sounds; I just wish it had the Totally Silly mod.

dv · 2007-01-19 9:34 am

B.S. wrote:
Performa 6320CD (they added the CD part at the end because it was such a big deal that it had a CD drive).
Man that thing was unreliable even when it was brand new. But I was so excited to have it! I still have the TV tuner card from it as that was the best part of that machine.
That Sears Card I bought it with will finally be payed off this year!!!!
12 years later!!!!

That may be representative of what is wrong with our consumer-oriented, omgspendspendspend society...

...I mean, really, Macs being sold at Sears?

Mr. McPhee · 2007-01-19 10:43 am

Power Mac G3 233 in Beige which I bought Dec. 97 and used to sometime around May 2002. Robert B. has it now.

And Yes Dark Castle was great, I would play it all the time at school.

added Dark Castle stuff

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DukeofNuke · 2007-01-19 10:57 am

Performa 6360, back in, what, '95?
I bought it at Best Buy, and the sales guy tried to get me to buy an IBM by saying, "Apple is a niche market. You don't want one unless you are going to make a tv comercial or something like that." Well, THAT dissuaded me!
Anyway, when I got my iMac DV in '99, I put the Performa in my sons room, and somehow he managed to get maple syrup down the fan holes and onto the logic board!
P.S. After having a couple of iMacs, I can say with confidence that the 6360 was a piece of smurf!
Also, that during that time when I was trying to make up my mind which way to go, I picked up a copy of Mac Addict (#2) and I was so taken by the magazine's attitude that I knew right then that I had to go Mac!

Donkey Butter · 2007-01-19 11:01 am

powerbook g4 12" bought in august of 2003. last year I bought an SE/30 because, well because it was $20 and I wanted to see what I missed by using windows all those years.

Freakout Jackson · 2007-01-19 11:06 am

Performa 6200 75mhz. I was psyched when I maxed out the RAM at 64mb.

ScifiterX · 2007-01-19 11:10 am

First solid Mac experience: Oct 10, 1996; Preforma 6200CD
First Mac owned: Mar 12, 1997; Mac SE
First solid Apple experience: Early, 1981; Apple IIe with Tasman Turtle

lieven · 2007-01-19 11:26 am

SE, 1987

PHUSMC · 2007-01-19 11:36 am

Mini (Intel) 2006 returned for iMac (Intel) 2006. Bought a MacBook (2006) and sold iMac towards MacPro (2006). And now I'm good and happy until my computers can't do what they need to do anymore, or I can't have the newest OS.

Dodo · 2007-01-19 11:45 am

Classic II.
I loved the little creature, I wrote a book there.
A thing of beauty...

After that, LCIII, a Performa 8500... iBook tangerine still working, and a iBook 800mhz, still doing its duty at home.

B.S. · 2007-01-19 12:49 pm

dvpierce wrote:
B.S. wrote:
Performa 6320CD (they added the CD part at the end because it was such a big deal that it had a CD drive).
Man that thing was unreliable even when it was brand new. But I was so excited to have it! I still have the TV tuner card from it as that was the best part of that machine.
That Sears Card I bought it with will finally be payed off this year!!!!
12 years later!!!!
That may be representative of what is wrong with our consumer-oriented, omgspendspendspend society...

...I mean, really, Macs being sold at Sears?

I'd have to agree. I thought I really needed it back then when I was in college so I could get my graphic design work done. All under the impression that with a college degree I could get a design job that will more than pay for the student loans and credit cards i had to live off of in school.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
9 years after graduating, I've made no progress on my student loan and don't make enough money to ever buy a new mac.
I just bought my Sawtooth used from my office last year for $75.
I was broke for two months after that.

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