Lifetime ?

[Macmadant]

I was Just wandering what percentage of the Forum members Are Lifetime Macusers, i know i am as my very first computer was a mac, so i never new any different, so vote and see what we get

 

[I'mAMac]

I was Just wandering what percentage of the Forum members Are Lifetime Macusers, i know i am as my very first computer was a mac, so i never new any different, so vote and see what we get

Y dont you make a poll?

 

[Macmadant]

Y dont you make a poll?

Yep Done

 

[pianoman]

No. I've been an admirer since the elementary school days where we'd use Macs. I got a Mac mini the day they came out and more recently a MBP.

 

[Macmadant]

No. I've been an admirer since the elementary school days where we'd use Macs. I got a Mac mini the day they came out and more recently a MBP.

Cool, i think it was fate that i was meant to get a mac, as we had the money, ready to buy a PC, but my dad Spent it all on something else without telling us, (which caused upset) and then my uncle said i could have his computer (which was a mac) as he was getting a new one(which was a mac), but now, i'm glad my dad spent the money, because if he hadn't i may still be using a PC now

 

[Mr. Mister]

The only two significantly expensive computers I've owned (the Powermac G5 and now any day now my Mac Pro) have been Macs.

 

[furious]

my first computer was a Mac in 1991. then we had PC's after that, because of compatibility. Now i have a MacBook. my life is now free.

 

[whatzupcm]

I have just recently baught a macbook for my college computer needs, but I've known people that have been using macs for many years now

 

[bousozoku]

It wouldn't be possible. I had a computer 3 years before there was a Macintosh. I didn't get a Mac until 1993, I believe but that's about as long as some of our members have had them.

 

[kered22]

I'm a lifelong Apple user, started with the Apple IIe, then moved onto the Mac IIcx, been sticking with Macs ever since.

 

[AvSRoCkCO1067]

I still consider myself new to Macs (I bought my first last August)

 

[steamboat26]

Unless you want to get technical, i have been using macs since 2001 (imac G3). My family stopped using that in 2003, and got a PC. In 2006, i got my mini, and love being back with macs

 

[Sun Baked]

You should have said lifetime Apple users, since some on here have used Apples since well before the Mac.

 

[Chone]

Yeah lifetime user, before 2000 I was scared of PCs now I embrace them with wide open arms but I haven't abandoned my Macs (the horror)

 

[milozauckerman]

My instinct is to say no (bought my first Mac in 2001 after having PCs at home since a Tandy 1000), but when I think about it...

I'd swear my elementary school was rocking the Apple II in the late-80s/cusp-o-the-90s, but it may have been another kind of two-piece Mac. Not a Windows box.

In junior high we had Mac labs - I wouldn't remember, except we had to 'program' with HyperCard. Ah, junior high 'computer science' - typing tests and HyperCard.

Then in high school the journalism department had one-piece Macs (maybe Color Classics?) running Photoshop and Pagemaker. Horrible, horrible beasts. Never worked right, crashed randomly, devoid of RAM - I'm kind of amazed that they were even networked. Senior year we got a pair of the first iMacs, they were like manna from the gods.

And Photoshop and Pagemaker on those led directly to me buying a G4 tower when I had the cash a couple of years later.

 

[bembol]

Switched last year and now addicted...sold Mac Mini (1.42GHz PowerPC) and picked up TWO Intel Core Duo...!!!

20" iMac & 13.3 MacBook this past June LOL

I'm already saving up for MacPro this Spring '07

 

[kretzy]

The first computer we had was a LC II in the early 90s. In 2000 I went to the dark side and got a Dell. Switched back again in early 2005 and will never change now.

 

[Kernow]

I voted yes becuase I personally have only ever owned Apple computers - got my first in 2001.

However, I had obviously used PCs before that, but that doesn't cout right?

 

[Pressure]

I have been using Macs on/off my entire life.

I grew up with the Macintosh SE (I believe it was released in 1989) and played my first games on it

Otherwise I have been using them for work but have only just (this may) bought one for myself.

 

[Lollypop]

Been a PC user most of my life, had a old powerbook 520, but I didnt use it for long, got my powerbook almost 2 years ago, will never go back... even if im forced to use windows at work...

 

[Queso]

First used Mac in '91 (aged 19), bought my first one in '95. Had both an iMac G3 and a PC laptop for a while, then bought a PowerBook to replace the laptop. Still have to use Windows occasionally, but it's all Mac both at home and in my business.

 

[ictiosapiens]

My first ever computer was an Apple II c... But after that my family went pc, so I was stucked with dos... from the 286 until the pentium m... But this year it all changes!!! Well, as soon as apple fills my requirements(merom, discreet graphics and 12-14 inches)

 

[Kardashian]

Started admiring the flavoured G3 iMacs when there was on advert on a few months before Christmas.

Few months later I had one.

Then due to incompatibility with stupid Schools Windows stuff - I went back to Windows with a Toshiba Laptop. Then a Media Centre from HP.

Enough was enough. Since then (about the past 4/5 years) I've had 2 iBooks, 3 Minis, 1 eMac, 2 iMacs, urm.. I think thats it (and many iPods).

Mac4Lyfe

 

[Killyp]

I've been using Macs since I got an iMac G3 about 7-8 months ago. I did also have a Dell dual P4, but I found myself using my Mac much more often, even though it was a tiny fraction the power...

Then a few months later I got a MacBook Pro, and now my PC has moved out of my room alltogether. I'm wanting to sell my PC as I'm using it in a studio. I know a Mac would be much better for that job...

 

[Glen Quagmire]

Since January 26 this year. I currently use a Mac mini (PPC) and a Mac Pro has been ordered. The MP will replace the Mac mini and my fairly prehistoric and noisy PC.