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What is the first of your first Mac you owned?
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My first whas the Powerbook in my sig. Still going strong, although it met it's limit editing HD video. Well, to be honest it actually worked, although it was slow and skipped frames, and thats pretty impressing for a 5 year old computer. Also the reason I'm never going back:wonna future proof - buy a mac!
2010 i5 2.4 GHz 15" MBP.
I'm a recent convert from PC and I wonder why I hadn't converted sooner!!!
I'm a recent convert from PC and I wonder why I hadn't converted sooner!!!
MBP 2010 model, Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 GHz, 320 GB HDD. It has surpassed all my expectations (which were fairly high). I'm not going back to PC any time soon. It's so easy to use with its wide peripheral support (it even supports my PS3 controller out of the box!). And it is very well designed: I never thought I'd actually prefer to use a trackpad over a mouse, until I got this computer. They've really thought about everything.
First Apple product I ever had was a GB 5th gen iPod. Best decision I ever made because it drew me to Apple. After using it for about 3 years I though, "Wow. If this is so great Apple must make badass computers." After that I wanted a Mac, whether iMac or MacBook (loved the look of the black and white MBs).
Eventually I saved up from my first job during high school after about a year and bought a 15" MBP exactly 2 months before the unibody MBPs were released. Boy I sure wish I knew about MacRumors back then! Then I sold that to get a unibody 13" MB… And sold that to get my current 13" MBP. Now I have a great Mac. All I need now is an LED ACD and my setup would be complete.
Macbook pro 2008. The latest version before unibody came out
Eventually I saved up from my first job during high school after about a year and bought a 15" MBP exactly 2 months before the unibody MBPs were released. Boy I sure wish I knew about MacRumors back then!
Then I sold that to get a unibody 13" MB… And sold that to get my current 13" MBP. Now I have a great Mac. All I need now is an LED ACD and my setup would be complete.
I had a Macintosh Classic (maybe II. I think it had a color display, but I remember the enclosure of the Classic, so it may was a Color Classic (II)) for some month, and I liked it better then my Windows 95-PC, but had to give it back and had no modem for it anyways. I actually used PCs (286, 386, Pentium I+II, Athlon, Athlon64, Pentium Dual-Core), but I switched 1999 to Redhad Linux and later to Gentoo and in the end Ubuntu for a couple of month before switching to a Mac Mini, so you can't really count my as a regular PC user, as I feel like people refer to Windows-PC users (and I could run GNU/Linux even on my hairdryer). I used bondie blue iMacs in school for some time, too.
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Regards
First Apple in 1979!
from memory it was a IIc not sure though maybe it was a 1A. It had two separate disc drives that sat on top of the computer that took single sided 5 1/4" disks that stored 140K! From memory the first monitor was a green letters on black background. Paper was continuous, sprocket fed, accordion folded, the ink head was dot matrix.
from memory it was a IIc not sure though maybe it was a 1A
. It had two separate disc drives that sat on top of the computer that took single sided 5 1/4" disks that stored 140K! From memory the first monitor was a green letters on black background. Paper was continuous, sprocket fed, accordion folded, the ink head was dot matrix.At a whopping 8MB RAM and 250MB HD, my first Mac was the Powermac 6100/60 AV. And yes it really was AV since I used it to capture video and even played Nintendo on it (as a display using AV input).
That baby (still boxed in original everything) ran Electric Image, formZ and COSA After Effects (yes original owners).
Ive had a few more after (Quicksilver up to Uni 17" MBP) that.
Now I just wished a Mac Pro would come out so that I can add to my collection
That baby (still boxed in original everything) ran Electric Image, formZ and COSA After Effects (yes original owners).
Ive had a few more after (Quicksilver up to Uni 17" MBP) that.
Now I just wished a Mac Pro would come out so that I can add to my collection
3 years ago- I was a uni student working part time with a computer servicing company. I had a hp laptop running xp but it seemed like I was spending every second day fixing a vista lock out or quirk. Then one fateful day I went to to my laptop on and the hard drive died. Could not bare the thought of buying a laptop with vista so a Mac was the obvious choice. Love my MacBook 13 inch so much. Since then it's spawned a little family: an iPod touch and iPad. Soon to be iPhone 4 and almost certainly the apple tv when it comes out.
What About the IIE
Am I the only one old enough to have used the IIE? I also still own the original Apple Newton. I bought it after attending the grand introduction in Cupertino. My HTC Desire is much better although I still have a MacBook Pro and a 24" iMac.
Am I the only one old enough to have used the IIE? I also still own the original Apple Newton. I bought it after attending the grand introduction in Cupertino. My HTC Desire is much better although I still have a MacBook Pro and a 24" iMac.
The IIe wasn't a Mac though. It was part of the older Apple II range of machines. You won't be alone on this site in having used one, although they weren't that common here in Europe back then so personally I never had the pleasure.
Same, although I think mine was only 80MB. And a massive 4MB of RAM!
And I think it cost on the order of $5000, which is about $12000 today.
Lc 475
Mac LC475 with floating point unit chip, required to run certain photoshop filter. 80 Meg of HD don't remember how much ram...
I had Supra Express modem connect that rarely use at the time.
All software were educational prices, so I went crazy for it! 13 crt monitor.
For over 2 years 3 years I live in the apartment, I had never tune it off !!
Mac LC475 with floating point unit chip, required to run certain photoshop filter. 80 Meg of HD don't remember how much ram...
I had Supra Express modem connect that rarely use at the time.
All software were educational prices, so I went crazy for it! 13 crt monitor.
For over 2 years 3 years I live in the apartment, I had never tune it off !!
Mac II
A Macintosh II with a 40 Meg hard drive(upgraded countless times). I upgraded it and installed a PMMU and 1.44 meg floppy drive into it. The floppy drive upgrade required a new ROM and a swim chip upgrade. Before that I had an Apple IIc however my parents bought that.
Edit: I can't remember exactly how much RAM it ended up having in it when it was retired? It came with 4 megs of RAM and I want to say it was a strange number, 68megs I think?
A Macintosh II with a 40 Meg hard drive(upgraded countless times). I upgraded it and installed a PMMU and 1.44 meg floppy drive into it. The floppy drive upgrade required a new ROM and a swim chip upgrade. Before that I had an Apple IIc however my parents bought that.
Edit: I can't remember exactly how much RAM it ended up having in it when it was retired? It came with 4 megs of RAM and I want to say it was a strange number, 68megs I think?
Just for the record, the topic says "first Mac", so Apple I and II doesn't actually count, nor the Lisa
Seriously, I find it very interesting that people who started on the Apple II stayed loyal to Apple and are (still, they may weren't in the '90s) satisfied today. Apple may not jeopardize that, even if most people may not know that there were gray Macs prior to bondie-blue, tangerine and unibody aluminum.
Seriously, I find it very interesting that people who started on the Apple II stayed loyal to Apple and are (still, they may weren't in the '90s) satisfied today. Apple may not jeopardize that, even if most people may not know that there were gray Macs prior to bondie-blue, tangerine and unibody aluminum.