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lu0s3r322 said:
most of these kids should be focusing on school work and not macs, including me. do you all get good grades considering the amount of time you spend working? i dont work at all or have a mac yet and im one of the top 50 students in my sophmore class of 1,100
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Yep, I worked since I was 15 for at least a couple of hours per week. By my final year in highschool I was able to afford a PB, get the second best grade in the class, socialise with friends and spend excessive amounts of time here. You just have to get a good balance going between everything and know when to prioritize.
 
lu0s3r322 said:
i can understand how the 16+ guys can make enough money to get a MBP, etc... but i'm 15 and i cant even get a Mac even if i had the money. im so busy with school n stuff (stupid strict asian parents) that i can't really get a job or earn much money. although im finally get a macbook/pro at the end of the summer with the money i earned from remodeling my house's basement. still i can't understand how <14 kids can have like 2 or 3 macs
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Maybe you should focus on something besides a Mac yourself. We enjoy our discussions so don't treat the younger ones any differently. Especially when your only 15 your self and saying you want an MBP! Not everone's parents expect straight A's.
 
uhm I'm 15 and need a MacBook Pro, a MacBook's video card isn't good enough & I do video editing, web development, photoshop, etc. etc.
Age doesn't mean anything. We are still capable and legal (in some places).
 
I do the exact same things as Mark. We are even considered adults in some places (not calling me the most mature peron) but honestly stop treating younger kids that work for money differently, we enjoy our Macs and the money we earn to buy them.
 
iGary said:
For the love of God!!!

"I paid for everything myself," not "payed."

Payed is not a fracking word. :mad: :rolleyes:
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Count to ten, and step away from the keyboard. :D

Actually heard something on the news about the spelling issue. Has to do with phonetics being taught in some schools now.
 
lu0s3r322 said:
most of these kids should be focusing on school work and not macs, including me. do you all get good grades considering the amount of time you spend working? i dont work at all or have a mac yet and im one of the top 50 students in my sophmore class of 1,100. im in all the high-level classes like AP Physics and i dont get anything for good grades, my parents expect me to have straight A's.
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I am in all the top classes at my school and I get all A's, so I don't think spending time on getting a new $2000 dollar mac is really affecting my grades....
 
aaron.lee2006 said:
I do the exact same things as Mark. We are even considered adults in some places (not calling me the most mature peron) but honestly stop treating younger kids that work for money differently, we enjoy our Macs and the money we earn to buy them.
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aaron.lee2006 said:
I am 14 and pay for everything myself. I have since I was about 10 years old. I'm working at a Tim Horton's. I have been working since Febuary and will be probably buying an MBP at the end of the summer and still have some money left over to go out and hang with friends and stuff. So please if yuo are hinting at us all being spoiled don't! I have worked for everything I own!
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tim hortons! oh i wish they had those farther south in the south. as for me, i've always received top marks in school and i got a job to pay for my macbook.
 
Mmm Tim Hortons. I do miss it. I live in Shanghai now though so I've gotten attached to Starbucks, The Coffee Beanery and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, but good ol' fashioned bottom-of-the-pot Timmies is still the best coffee I've ever had.

Anyways, my setup. Or... room. There's a Mac in there though.

 
Here's my embarrasing setup:
Dell Inspiron 1100
20GB HD
256MB RAM
2.2 GHz P4
XP Home
Picks and chooses when it wants to let me use it.

Anybody wanna buy me a MacBook.. :eek:
 
zephead said:
Here's my embarrasing setup:
Dell Inspiron 1100
20GB HD
256MB RAM
2.2 GHz P4
XP Home
Picks and chooses when it wants to let me use it.

Anybody wanna buy me a MacBook.. :eek:
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You can't be so embarassed you won't post a pic... Or is the Dell from beofre USB...:D

Nah, j/k, a MB for you would be teh roxr!! for you though!;)
 
lu0s3r322 said:
most of these kids should be focusing on school work and not macs, including me. do you all get good grades considering the amount of time you spend working? i dont work at all or have a mac yet and im one of the top 50 students in my sophmore class of 1,100. im in all the high-level classes like AP Physics and i dont get anything for good grades, my parents expect me to have straight A's.
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I am the top student in my school, I take college level french (I was a sophmore in highschool last year), have a job, and a macbook pro, as well as an Ipod, cellphone etc...

I have an extremely active social life (I've been out at least every other night this summer with friends), play sports, and am still not one of those over scheduled kids who runs from one activity to the next. The key is moderation. Do whatever you want but never become obsessed with something to the point that you neglect everything else.


On a thread-related note, I'll post my setup as soon as I get a desk. I was supposed to get one with my MBP...in April...then life got busy. Soon though...
 
Tim Hortans is the most disgusting "restaurant".

Anyone remember "Bess Eaten Donuts". That place had gross food and had religious phrases on their coffee cups and signs.


Anyways, I don't see why everyone is so concerned with young people having good computers. Just because we are not 30 does not mean we cannot have a nice computer. We have much fewer expenses than adults. We don't have to pay for insurance, a mortgage, power bills, gas bills, water bills, phone bills, cable bills, internet bills, food, clothing, house maintenance, etc. If someone says that children should pay to live in their own house- well that will never happen.
 
I have a job, come top in my sciences classes (RE and Maths are rubbish at my school), I have 3 albums out, making money out of that, I have a life, and a girlfriend. I have plenty of friends, I go to music festivals all the time, and I'm building (with my own money) a dedicated recording studio in the top of our garage (needs major conversion).

See just because we are proud of our Apple Macs doesn't mean we can't do well in life. In fact, the way I see it is that owning an Apple Mac is more of a status symbol of wanting to do well (or having done well) in life, rather than having a really really good computer...
 
me2621a said:
agreed it was just on because i was lasy and dint want to change the channel
however i would like to now what people thought of the set up not what i was watchng
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Nice setup. Looks like you did very well for yourself and rewarded yourself with some nice toys. The thing I love most about OS X is the spell check feature. Mine was free with my computer, I didn't exercise my stock options to get it. Keep up the good work. In a few years when you're old enough you could have a down payment for a house!!
 
I'm 16. My parents bought me my PowerBook G4 last January for my birthday. I didn't put a cent towards paying for it. My grades are slipping. I have no social life because I don't relate to my mindless generation. I have been unemployed for almost three years. I'm a victim of unrequited love because she thinks that she is on Sweet Sixteen or Laguna Beach or one of those other MTV monstrosities. I sit at home and swim, watch HBO, and think about the next play that I will write even though I never have the energy to begin it. I'm not a people person.

Leave the teens alone. Let them figure it all out on their own. ;)
 
timerollson said:
Reading this thread makes me see how bitter some people can be. In the end, it's not your money or your setup. So, what's the big deal?
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:)
 
_Matt said:
I'm 16. My parents bought me my PowerBook G4 last January for my birthday. I didn't put a cent towards paying for it. My grades are slipping. I have no social life because I don't relate to my mindless generation. I have been unemployed for almost three years. I'm a victim of unrequited love because she thinks that she is on Sweet Sixteen or Laguna Beach or one of those other MTV monstrosities. I sit at home and swim, watch HBO, and think about the next play that I will write even though I never have the energy to begin it. I'm not a people person.

Leave the teens alone. Let them figure it all out on their own. ;)
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At least you have a PowerBook...
 
aaron.lee2006 said:
I'm Canadian, but I love Timmies :)
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LOL ... maybe new to Canada I guess, but fyi Tim Hortons is a Canadian company .. publicly traded but named after an old Canadian NHL player of the same name.

zephead; sorry dude but you can wait in line ... i've been suffering on 768MB on a Dell Optiplex GX260 (they no longer make this lineup anymore) with a 17 DELL LCD (not the new one with burn marks on the screen)and an 40GB HDD and only CD-RW drive (no DVD in this dinosaur) for years!

if I can resist the Nokia N80 then I can get a refurbished MacBook pro with 128MB video memory @ 2GHz.
 
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