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What was your first Mac?

I am a long time iPhone and iPad user, but up until April this year I was a Windows PC user, just because of price. I picked up a MBA M2 with 16GB RAM for $699 or $649 (can't remember which). I love that it works so well in the ecosystem I've so deeply embedded myself in over the years.
 
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mathiasinthe314 said:
I am a long time iPhone and iPad user, but up until April this year I was a Windows PC user, just because of price. I picked up a MBA M2 with 16GB RAM for $699 or $649 (can't remember which). I love that it works so well in the ecosystem I've so deeply embedded myself in over the years.
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I also have an M2 MBA.

What colour did you get? Mine’s starlight.

Great machine, and very portable.

👍🏼
 
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I went with the regular old silver. I've just always admired how clean they look to me.

I love it, it runs smooth as butter for the things I use it for.
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I didn’t think the M2 came in silver? That’s why I got starlight.

I agree, silky smooth. I’m a general user, so nothing heavy being thrown at it.

I have an M4 iMac, and they perform identically.
 
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Mine was a 24” 2008 iMac.

Top spec, at the time.

Such a lovely, lovely machine. It was actually this Mac that got me into photography.

What about you?
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2007 Mac Mini. It had a 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo - and it was *slow*. It was so bad I quickly gave up on it, and happily returned to Windows PCs.

Now deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem, I decided to give Mac another chance this past May. I got a Mac Mini with an M4 chip. In just a few months I've come to love it. It's faster than my three year old PC (with 12 core i7), and I love how all my Apple gear now works so well together. I'm a convert!
 
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jetsam said:
2007 Mac Mini. It had a 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo - and it was *slow*. It was so bad I quickly gave up on it, and happily returned to Windows PCs.

Now deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem, I decided to give Mac another chance this past May. I got a Mac Mini with an M4 chip. In just a few months I've come to love it. It's faster than my three year old PC (with 12 core i7), and I love how all my Apple gear now works so well together. I'm a convert!
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I know what you mean re working together.

Simple things like taking or making a call on my Mac, still intrigues me.

I’m definitely sold 👍🏼.
 
I had the same iMac and it got me into video editing and I became the annoying guy who would edit and make his family watch their family videos..

Sadly I don’t do the video anymore for some reason… I find the videos that the photos app auto creates good enough or just watch individual clips of the kids and family trips etc.

The iMac still works and oddly I used it a couple weeks ago… front row was a great app and it’s a shame they don’t have that anymore.. i kept it on snow leopard for nostalgia purposes but it’s very limited as safari won’t work on many websites now.

iTunes can import a cd but it’s can’t connect to get the artwork and also iTunes Store doesn’t work with it anymore either..
 
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Titanium PowerBook G4/400. That was a Christmas gift from my mom in 2001. She got it from my sister's boyfriend at the time. Nice gift, but I didn't really know what to do with it. Although I used Macs professionally, personally I was all PC until 2003.

That Mac lasted until November 2009 when the logicboard died the first time. I say first time, because I replaced the LB twice. By the second time around though it had just started to fall apart and I had other Macs. It got shipped off for parts to another user here on MacRumors. It did serve a full year as a production Mac at work though until my boss bought me a new Mac.
 
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White MacBook 4,1 Early 2008, had 1GB of RAM and 128GB HDD. Came with Leopard. Leopard seemed so futuristic and is my favourite OS. I don’t know if it’s because of nostalgia or what but it had so many useful features. Spotlight blew my mind, Time Machine was awesome and I loved iLife and iPhoto. I still miss iPhoto.
 
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eyoungren said:
Titanium PowerBook G4/400. That was a Christmas gift from my mom in 2001. She got it from my sister's boyfriend at the time. Nice gift, but I didn't really know what to do with it. Although I used Macs professionally, personally I was all PC until 2003.

That Mac lasted until November 2009 when the logicboard died the first time. I say first time, because I replaced the LB twice. By the second time around though it had just started to fall apart and I had other Macs. It got shipped off for parts to another user here on MacRumors. It did serve a full year as a production Mac at work though until my boss bought me a new Mac.
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I had the video card replaced on my 2008 iMac.

I was burning countless DVDs, and I must have just fried it!

The good old days, right?

By the way, I still have my white remote, which came with it 👍🏼.
 
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iHorseHead said:
White MacBook 4,1 Early 2008, had 1GB of RAM and 128GB HDD. Came with Leopard. Leopard seemed so futuristic and is my favourite OS. I don’t know if it’s because of nostalgia or what but it had so many useful features. Spotlight blew my mind, Time Machine was awesome and I loved iLife and iPhoto. I still miss iPhoto.
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Oh mate, you’re bringing back memories!

As a new Mac user, I loved Quick Look, and exposé.

I also loved that everything was just so fluid. For example, you could have a Finder window open, and just drag & drop the icon in the title bar, to somewhere else, and it would copy.

Everything was so intuitive, and it really did “just work.”
 
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The Cockney Rebel said:
I had the video card replaced on my 2008 iMac.

I was burning countless DVDs, and I must have just fried it!

The good old days, right?

By the way, I still have my white remote, which came with it 👍🏼.
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I have two iMacs, an iMac G3 (tray loader, blue) and an iMac G5. The G3 works, the G5 stopped working. But aside from those two iMacs, it's not a model I ever gravitated towards. I have them because both were given to me free.

I do have a 2008 MBP though, 15". I used to use it a lot, but one of the fans died and I haven't been motivated to replace it.

My oldest Mac is a B&W PowerMac G3, my newest a 2011 MBA. None of what I have was ever used by me during the time period it was actively being sold. All acquired much later.

Yes, good times. At least for me in the sense of making everything work for modern purposes.
 
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The Cockney Rebel said:
Mine was a 24” 2008 iMac.

Top spec, at the time.

Such a lovely, lovely machine. It was actually this Mac that got me into photography.

What about you?
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iBook G4, maxed out RAM and added the wi-fi card. Prior to that all manner of home built PC's, CBM-64 and my 1st ever computer Vic-20. Had many many Macs since. Almost always buy the laptop in silver, hides any scratches and you don't get the horrid sweat smudge on the casing. I tend to chop and change between Pro's and Air's depending on best deal/spec at the time.
 
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