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What is the first of your first Mac you owned?

My first was a IIfx... but I have fondest memories of both the IIci and the 840AV (still have the 840 running as a server somewhere around the office)

Sadly, unless Apple updates the Mac Pro soon, I will be forced to buy my first PC!!
 
12" Powerbook 1.5 GHz purchased on MacRumors in 2006 (when the marketplace forums were open to all).

Sold it for what I paid over two years later and kept what's in my signature.
 
My first Apple/Mac

was in 1979, I don't remember what it was called though. I had to use 5 1/4" disks which only held 140kb, in those days it was only black and white and my printer was dot matrix sprocket fed from continuous folded sheet.
 
Mine was the IIvx in 1993. I was really stoked because it came with 5MB RAM when the store only listed it at 4MB:D. I bought it to play games my friend had since he had quite a few. That is when I found out that there is a difference between Apples and Macs. Even though their operating systems seemed the same, he had GS/OS 6 on a IIgs and I had System 7 on my Mac. Even with that disappointment I found System 7 much nicer than than DOS 6 and Windows 3.1 and ended up selling my 486DX 33Mhz to my Dad.

Dizzler said:
My first Mac was the IIcx, the first Mac with a separate color CRT. It was a beauty and it had a huge hard drive at 100MB. I wondered at the time how I would ever fill it up!
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I believe the Mac II beat the IIcx by slightly over a year.
 
My first Mac was a IIsi (which Apple still appears to remember too last time I called support!). I was in the Apple II camp before with an Apple //e and then a Woz edition IIgs.
 
My first Apple was in '79, my dad got us a II+. Then when the IIGS came out, we got one of those. I still remember how blown away we were by that thing at the time. We used that for a long time, then they got a PC for awhile. I got sick of the PC and in '99 got my first "Mac", an iMac G3 DV 400mhz Grape.

Then I picked up a used Cube, then I got an eMac at work, then retired the Cube and got an iMac G5, then got a black MacBook, and just recently retired the eMac for a new Mini. I've also got a little collection now including an original 128k, SE30, Plus, G3 B&W, G4 tower, clamshell iBook, and a few iMacs. :apple:
 
First (and current) mac is an Early 2006 17" iMac - Intel Core Duo.

It's one of the models that have a faulty screen that ends up with dead coloured lines going from the top to the bottom of the screen.

Current count is at 5 lines - 2 yellow, 2 cyan, 1 magenta. I know that Apple can replace the screen and all that (they've acknowledged it to be a manufacturing fault) but I can't be bothered - it's my main computer. Plus, I think I've figured out when it happens - when I wake up the monitor from sleeping - so screw power management and never turn the display off! Ha!
 
A Mac LC in 1990 or 1991, I think. That lasted a long time. It may still be in my parents' garage somewhere.

Then I bought a purple G3/400 slot loading iMac in...1999, maybe? And then I bought this Macbook in 2006.

I try to get my money's worth out of my computers.
 
My first Mac was a Performa 6110CD. 8Meg of RAM and SCSI disk standard. :) Before that I owned an Amiga 500 and originally planned to upgrade to another Amiga. After the Mac I was convinced by friends to get a PC which i've owned in different configurations until earlier this week when a friend sent me his "old" Imac (3ghz alum w/8800GS) for free as a surprise. He knew that I was looking into buying a Mini.
 
My first Apple was the Apple with 48K memory back in 1981. I did upgrade to the Apple ll with floppy discs, Apple GS, Mac Classic with 512 memory.
After a whole lot of Macs down through the years, I have an iMac24", a MacBookAir for travel and an 2nd gen. iPod touch which I use for music and reading books. It has been a great experience just to witness the evolution of computers. I do remember a large dual air conditioned room to house a computer used for treating diabetes in my hospital. My little MBA would do the same job today and it's not a computer for heavy lifting by any means!:D
 
I'm a relatively new Mac user so I've only had one Mac so far - a 2009 white MacBook. I love it and I'm not ever going back to Windows if I can help it!
 
The first Mac I used at my parent's house was a Macintosh ED, the educational version of the Macintosh 512K. Later, my father bought the infamous Macintosh SE/30, and still later he got a meh Macintosh LC III with a black and white monitor. It also displayed 254 grades of gray, though, which certainly wowed me in the beginning.

In 1998 I bought my first own Mac. It was the original, bondi blue iMac. It was awesome! I upgraded it with the 8MB 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics card, that plugged into the mysterious expansion slot. It allowed me to play Unreal and Deus Ex quite well. After that, in 2002, came the lamp style iMac G4. I bought the original 15" model, only to be disappointed when the 17" model came out a mere six months later. I did hold on to it a long time, though. After that initial disappointment faded, I realized it was a great machine. Ergonomically, it's still unparalleled. It was followed in 2007 by a maxed out 24" aluminium iMac. I sold that soon after I got my current Mac, a 13" aluminium unibody MacBook. Indeed, the infamous . It was my first laptop and suddenly I realized I've always been a laptop guy, without knowing it.
 
Beat this

My 1st was an original brand new 128k mac, 400k disk. It came with Macwrite AND Macpaint AND the OS on one 400k disk. I was so fascinated, I set it up on the kitchen table and was up until 4 am playing with it. After that an upgrade to 512k, then a Classic, II SI, a 600, 2 G3 IMacs and my current AIO G4 E-Mac. About due for a 27" Imac.
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'97, A Performa 6400 I think it was called. An all in one, black. I thought it was awsome. It even had a TV card so I could use it as a tv in my student days. 1,6gb hard drive.
I used it for 6 years
 
The first I've bought was an iMac G5 17" iSight model. Lasted me 14 months before selling it off for a 2007 8-core Mac Pro. That went on after 2 years before it failed massively, replaced by the current Mac Pro, used that for close to a year, realising it is way too powerful for me (imagine the upcoming 12-core :eek:). Sold that off and decided to settle down on a MacBook Pro 15" Core i7 paired with a PC for GPU work.

First used, was back in my college days, early PowerMac G3 models 266MHz, used for MIDI sequencing.
 
My first is my 27" iMac 3.06 C2D. My second is my 2009 MacBook.

I originally wanted a 15" i5 MBP but I got tired of waiting so many months for a refresh and needed a new computer. It was the iMac, older MBP or a Windows machine. It was frustrating to wait but that was when I made the move to the expensive world of Apple
 
The first Mac in my life was our first 'real' family computer: a Performa 630 back in '94. Back then the HDD was only 350MB or something tiny like that (by today's standards). In '98 or '99 we upped it to a PowerMac 7300. A whole gigabyte hard drive!

By the time the next Mac in the house came along, we had reached the point where we were using our own computers, so the Power Mac G4 MDD was primarily my dad's whilst I was stuck with a Compaq PoS to do my coursework.

Shortly after I started uni I got my first Mac that I actually owned: A Power Mac G4 MDD (dual 1.42GHz - beating my dad's dual 800MHz model :) ). A couple of years later I was spending less time in my parent's house and more round friends houses, so I bought a PowerBook G4 - the last of the PowerBooks (the MacBook Pro had just been released, but I wasn't about to jump to MacTel just yet).

In 2008 I bought the first unibody MacBook Pro that you see in my signature. A fantastic piece of kit.

Shortly after that, work were about to throw out an old PowerBook 1400c (c. 1996). I could't let that happen, so I took it home. It's still a better built machine than any of Dell's laptops that I've used.

I still have all of my Macs. My PowerMac is basically a music server playing music through AirTunes through the house, and the PowerBook, now a little beat up, still gets used from time to time for basic browsing. My dad still has all the old family Macs, right back to the Performa. I also have adopted my GF's old iBook now she has a MacBook (although she barely uses that now she has an iPad).

These are my Mac Memoirs.
 
First Mac was a Power Mac 6100/66 (PC). Had this computer all through high school.

Second Mac I bought was a used 9500/132 off of Ebay that eventually got a G3 upgrade.

Third mac was a refurbished G4 667 (Digital Audio) which I still have sitting in the basement. It too was upgraded with I believe a 1.42Ghz G4.

Fourth and currant Mac is a Quad G5 which I bought used about 2 years ago.

If I think about it, the only "new" Mac I ever had was the 6100/66 and ironically the most expensive!
 
My first Mac I ever ordered was a Centris 650 back in 1993. It took Apple so long to deliver it that by the time it came, they upgraded me to a Quadra 650 instead. Having been working on an original LC at work, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Perviously I'd had an Apple IIc which was purchased in 1985 and got me though college.
 
Compared to some of the people on this forum. Im a recent switcher, having bought my first mac in 2009(13" MBP).
 
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