'Official' New Member Thread: Welcome

[wdschrank]

Just joined today but have been a parasite here for about 3 months. The site and contributors have been extremely helpful so thank you. I look forward to learning much more about macs after being away from them for 20 years. Who knows, maybe one day I'll even contribute a bit.

 

[PBG4]

just got my very first apple the begining of May 05'
its a PowerBookG4 17 inch, G4 1.67Mhz, 80gig, combo drive
also purchased an iPod Photo 60gig together, along with the Airport extreme

 

[pdpardue]

I'm new too!

So, for like the last year or so I have been looking into getting a mac, but must say that they are quite pricey, and as a student, that is always an issue. Well, recently I "took the dive", and after getting some financial aid from school ended up purchasing a used 14.1in ibook 700mhz g3... Not the best, but closer to my price range. Last year i bought an iPod (the 40gb photo), and I would probably say that really pushed me along the way to the mac even more. My son's mom has an eMac, and up untill we split I would be on that way more then my own dell.

As it stands, I only use my dell for some stupid online math course that ONLY runs on windows and IE!!! Other then that, I take my ibook with me everywhere, and love it to death. I have a digital camera (last years financial aid), and having the ability to fill up my 1Gb CF card and then transfer to the ibook has been so nice.

I would like to say that I have had no problems with the ibook since getting it, but I recently went to yosemite (the real reason I took the dive), and on the first night there, I ended up crasshing the system so bad that it wouldn't boot... A broken computer folder showed up instead. Very sad as I left all my install disks at home. Then like two weeks later, the logic board went out. Apple covered the replacement, which I am sure that most other companies would not even consider with a nearly 3 year old computer.

Everything now is running fine, I have 10.3.9 and am considering tiger when some more money comes in. I am really looking forward to learning the os and all of it's features. Right now, I am looking strongly at getting a powermac when funds become avalible.

Any way, i would like to welcome myself to the forums and the mac experince and thank everyone here who has supported my small problems and hope to be around for a long time.

Paul

 

[ScruffyTheMac]

Hi Folks

I've been reading MacRumors for several years; finally decided to join.

I've been a Mac user for a few years. My first Mac was a sawtooth G4 - great machine with OS9. Unfortunately, it was not possible to install any version of OSX or Linux (kernel panics left and right), so I donated it to a museum that still runs OS9.

Currently I'm using a 1GHz Ti Powerbook running 10.3.9; absolutely love the thing. I'm out of disc space with music, photos, and now EyeTV recordings, so I ordered a dual 2.7GHz last week. I'll be heading over to the "current ship times" thread to complain . . . .

Ross

 

[chenvita]

Hi,

I am a graduate student. I conduct a research about knowledge sharing in virtual community. I participated in some forums for quite a long time. I like the way people interact in programing forum.
I have post a questionnaire in here. Please kindly spend your time to fill up. Thank you!

Vita

 

[oldejim]

Happy to be joining you

This will be a bit of a test... Another of these threads started with good intentions... but was soon taken over by regulars.

if you just joined MacRumors, reply and introduce yourself.

This is only for new Macrumors users... only users who registered within two months of the current date may reply...

All other users posts will be deleted. (moderators, please enforce this). This will be for myself included... only comments by truely "new" users will be allowed in this thread.

Discuss away...



(this could fail miserably if no one replies )

arn

Good evening. As my login suggests, I am retired. I have been a MAC user for some time. Now that I am retired, I am exploring the opportunities with the software. Can anyone recommend the best classical radio station that will work with Mac?

I am looking forward to observing in the weeks and months ahead.

 

[UTB_Avid]

Decided to register because I wanted to post about my poor broken PB. Only three weeks old. tsk tsk. Oh well, hopefully fixed tomorrow, definitely by wed.

 

[Lunja]

Hi all!

Like many, I've been lurking for a couple of months, and have been trying to register here for a while, but the site didn't like my hotmail address... But fr some reason, registration with the same address worked fine on a PC...

I was introduced to Macs at Uni while on a 10 week digital animation course (If I think about it, my first Mac encounter was when I managed the school savings club when I was 7 lol). We had a room full of eMacs to play with, and got to work.... I had bought a PC for £519 before I came to Uni to help with typing, projects etc, but this had become diseased and riddled with viruses due to the lack of protection on my building's network. The 'net always ran slowly on the PC, until one day, about 3 weeks into the term, it stopped working altogether...

I was getting more and more interested in Macs since I loved the ease of producing media on them, plus the sheer novelty of making some photoshop images, and within a couple of hours having an animation (using FCP) as a DVD with an interactive menu and designed cover. I was gagging for a 17" PowerBook (as I suppose many new switchers do ) , so when I saw a poster in Uni for a 700mhz eMac, I thought "I'll get an Apple to see how it goes..." and I had to have it! It cost £200, and is the best computer I've ever owned . I was sceptical about plugging the network cable into it since it took me over 30mins to alter settings on my PC in order to make it work, however one night I wanted to read MacRumors (the night 1.67mhz PB's were announced) so I gave it a shot... In went the cable, and up came the homepage! NO settings to change whatsoever! I was up until some crazy hour, constantly refreshing pages as more and more news came in about them, and I've been hooked ever since!

Oh and btw- my name... I ride mountain bike trials (see videos on http://www.trials-forum.com - these should explain), and the key move is when you press down on the pedal, balance the bike on the back wheel, then kick and jump, going forwards to land on the rear wheel. This is called a "Lunge", and the name is meant to be 'someone who lunges'. I thought "Lunger" looked a bit weird, so I changed it to "Lunja" and here I am today! (eagerly awaiting Steve Jobs' WWDC Keynote... lol)

 

[Cloaken]

Hello!

Just registred user from Sweden, have basicly no experience of Macs before but i have orded a ibook that is hopefully going to come soon. I also on a iPod 4G 20GB since a couple of months back.

 

[Windows User]

Hi everyone, as my name suggests, I am a Windows user, and I am currenly dying to switch, it's just that Macs are a bit pricey for me right now, since I'm a student and all. But hopefully soon I will able to get my hands on a Mac.

 

[exemacs]

welcome

 

[noaccess]

Hi y'all,

Gr8 site here! I have been lurking around for a while and just decided to (finally) register. Unfortunately, I'm still a PC user, and since I saw an iMac in the UK a while ago Iv been dying to switch. I'm getting a powerbook (or iBook?) real soon, but only after I get the insurance compensation, and after I pass my killa exams next week.
I'm 15/male and my nickname... doesn't mean anything... totally random .
Anyway, I hope I'll be posting this on Safari soon.

 

[bigmu]

I am a new user

Hey I am a new user who has been in the trenches trying to get my use powerbook 17in aluminum 1ghz laptop up and runing I recently upgrade the ram to 1.5 gig and hard drive to the Seagate Momentus 100gig 5400rpm. I did a completly fresh install of tiger and I have never been happier I was a completely loyal windows user up til that point now I have two macs the other one is an emac 1ghz 1gig ram and an 80 gig hd. I am glad I got them before the intel thingy. I have a new respect for modern computing thanks apple

 

[spacefreak4]

Hey everybody.

I've been browsing around this site for a while, originally in hopes of finding about the revision for the Mac mini. I plan to get one soon, and I'm really looking forward to the switch.

This is a great website and an awesome community.

 

[omega30one]

new thread

im new to mac rumors and i cant seem to find out how to post new threads of my own. thanks

 

[Diatribe]

Mac Starter Guide - Answers to questions like apps, MacRumors, OS X or other Mac related topics. That should get you started.

Welcome you all.

 

[Beergnome]

Howdy folks! I'm the gnome from Richmond, virginia. I'm employed as a brewer at legend brewing company here in town.
I hopped on your sight to see what the Mac Community was saying about our little fiasco we're having with the $50 Ibooks and regestered to interject some thoughts on the matter. When I'm not brewing or ..drinking copious amounts of Frosty cold Barley Pop. I'm usually fiddling around with antique and obsolete computers and gaming consoles.. you'll find me as a regualr forum user at atariage.com. most of my computers are scavanged together from donated, auctioned, and well..trash picked parts and enjoy the challange of breathing life back into things.. I'm a notorious tinkerer. and apperntly ghetto tech support
that being said..none of my macs are my primary computer I'm afraid to say..not for lack of trying mind you.. I would love one.. just..y'know..pricey and what not for me right now.
but I will say the pride of my collection is a fully operational M001, now all I need to do is figure out how to get more use out of it

 

[al3000]

Hey everyone I'm Al, and i'm a student from the UK. I have a PC at the moment, but have been wanting to get a mac for quite a few years now, but I made my mind up when I visited the new apple store in the bullring birmingham later in the year. In the last few months I have been reading some of the posts here, and decided to join. I am hoping to get a mac sometime after the Paris expo..for which I have just got tickets for At the moment I own an iPod & an iPod shuffle.

This is a really great site, and I hope it will be a great resource when I finally make the switch (can't wait!).

 

[_Matt]

Hi! I'm Matt and I'm happy to be an official member of the MacRumors Family. I'm a teenage writer/actor/amateur filmmaker/editor who has been browsing these forums for quite some time. I received my first mac (a Power Macintosh 6500/275)for Christmas in 1996 at the ripe old age of 6 and never turned back. Since then, I've touched a PC less than 10 times...Talk about a Switch Campaign. In 2001 I bought my first computer, an iBook G3 600Mhz which I recently gave to my mom. In return for giving up my iBook and not asking for gifts from my parents for a while, my parents took me to the Apple Store on my 15th birthday and let me come home with one of my most prized material possessions...a 15" PowerBook G4 Rev. D Superdrive...and so I lived happily ever after...Once again, I am very excited to finally be a member on MacRumors and can't wait to respond to the other members whose comments I've been reading for such a long time!

 

[kygeographer]

Hey, I'm Jay. I've been lurking for around 6 months, and finally decided to join. I used my first Mac in 1988, when I was five. My dad's a graphic designer, and decided to start bringing his work home with him, so my first real exposure to the Mac was a IIcx. We upgraded it throughout the years, and I think by the time it croaked (bad power supply), it was running 7.5, and had a 160MB drive in it, along with an Apple CD-ROM drive (remember SCSI, anyone? ). By that time, I was using a Dell for most of my schoolwork, as my school wasn't very Mac friendly, minus one of the teachers who had a lab full of LCII's (God bless her). I had various jobs throughout the years, which pretty much forced me to use a PC. I decided to make the switch back, upon getting involved in video production my junior year of high school. We were using Premiere in the classroom with an old heap o' junk Pentium II, and it was nothing short of a PITA. One of my friends, who worked for the city's media production division showed me his Powerbook running FCP, and I just couldn't believe how smoothly it ran, with no error messages or anything. Unfortunately, when I started college, I was given an HP laptop, which proved to be nothing but a headache, day in, day out. I think I went through 3 replacements in a 3 month period due to various components failing. I finally decided to make the final switch to Mac the next year. I was working as a TA in the graphic design lab on campus, and therefore using exclusively Macintosh while at work. I remember staying really late some evenings (till around 1 am or so) after the building closed, just so I could keep exploring and using the Mac. I decided then, at that point, that it was time to look into purchasing my own Mac. I went online to the Apple store, and configured an eMac, and had it ready to ship out and everything. I started thinking about it, finance wise, and actually ended up cancelling the order. However, 2 weeks later, my girlfriend and I went up to CompUSA (no Apple store nearby) to snag one of the G3 iBooks that had just gone on clearance, and I ended up impulse buying one of the eMacs they had there. Best impulse buy I've ever made. I've enjoyed using my Mac far more than I've used a PC, because it just works. The only thing I've ever had go wrong on my Mac was a logic board failure, and luckily, since I was at home visitng my parents, there was Apple store on the other side of town, and they fixed it within 3 days. That's better than I can say for my laptop. I've made a switcher out of my girlfriend, and I'm still working on switching my parents back ("The Mac doesn't do what we need a computer to do").

 

[halVORTEX]

im knew to here i lurked alot but i geuss i feel like talking now im a youngin in highschool i like snowmobiling and computers of course oh yeah i play basketball

 

[Lacero]

im knew to here i lurked alot but i geuss i feel like talking now im a youngin in highschool i like snowmobiling and computers of course oh yeah i play basketball

Loquaciousness has its rewards.

 

[xsedrinam]

Loquaciousness has its rewards.

Lacero, you know it don't make no difference where anyboy's loquated from. So welcome, halVORTEX.

 

[dubbz]

Loquaciousness has its rewards.

Had to look that one up, and it's actually a real word! Wow.


And welcome, halVORTEX.

 

[halVORTEX]

would any of these "rewards" have any monetary worth? lol