From the best of my recollection it was a 2009 13” MacBook Pro. I absolutely loved that computer
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
What was your first Mac?
- Thread starter The Cockney Rebel
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Cool post. My 1st owned mac was a,
Centris 650
then...
Power Mac Beige G3 Minitower
Power Mac G4 FW 800 Dual Processor
Mac mini Late 2005
Mac Book Pro 15" Early 2008
iMac 27" Late 2015
Mac mini Late 2014
Mac Mini M4 Pro
The older Macs up until the iMac, I added memory, HD's, processors, video cards ect. That was always fun to upgrade them.
*The 1st mac I ever used was an Apple II GS
Centris 650
then...
Power Mac Beige G3 Minitower
Power Mac G4 FW 800 Dual Processor
Mac mini Late 2005
Mac Book Pro 15" Early 2008
iMac 27" Late 2015
Mac mini Late 2014
Mac Mini M4 Pro
The older Macs up until the iMac, I added memory, HD's, processors, video cards ect. That was always fun to upgrade them.
*The 1st mac I ever used was an Apple II GS
At my first job out of college, I used a 512 KB original Macintosh with a 5 MB hard drive, AppleTalk, and an Apple LaserWriter. The first Mac I personally owned was an early 2011 MacBook Pro. I bought it in 2012 after spending 21 years with PCs, and Commodore computers (C64, C128, and Amiga 500) before that. I'm on my fourth one, a late 2023 14-inch M3 Pro. Outside of my C64 and Amiga 500, Macs are the best computers I've ever owned. I talk more about them in this post, What is good technology — 10 years of Mac.
Color Classic, circa 1993 or so. Added 2Mb of ram, a Zip drive, Canon ink jet printer, and bought a 2400 baud fax modem so I could scan documents by going to Kinko's and faxing them to myself, so I could apply for schools with my AOL email account. Anyone miss swapping floppies?
Attachments
Blue G3 tower. This exact set up
Second hand. Couldn't afford it new! Also only when OS X came out. I refused to use classic MacOS.
Second hand. Couldn't afford it new! Also only when OS X came out. I refused to use classic MacOS.
I am waaay old. My first computer, also one of the first to be transportable - a Compaq 'portable' in the shape of a suitcase:
(link)
About a year and a half after I got the Compaq, I got a Mac Plus (after trying the Lisa in one of the labs in my university). Sure, all computers can eventually do pretty much the same things, but the thing that sold me on the MacPlus was QuickDraw embedded in the ROM, which made graphics very quick in comparison to PC's. The easy conversion from QuickDraw to PostScript for high resolution printing helped, and I got nerd street cred for incorporating MacinTalk in some of the programs I wrote for our lab. The Mac Plus was a wonderful machine (without which I might not have managed my PhD), except for the damned flyback transformer for the CRT that eventually died.
About a year and a half after I got the Compaq, I got a Mac Plus (after trying the Lisa in one of the labs in my university). Sure, all computers can eventually do pretty much the same things, but the thing that sold me on the MacPlus was QuickDraw embedded in the ROM, which made graphics very quick in comparison to PC's. The easy conversion from QuickDraw to PostScript for high resolution printing helped, and I got nerd street cred for incorporating MacinTalk in some of the programs I wrote for our lab. The Mac Plus was a wonderful machine (without which I might not have managed my PhD), except for the damned flyback transformer for the CRT that eventually died.
2009 17" unibody MBP with Matte Display was the first one I owned myself.
Macintosh Plus, got it in 1989, took me through college and to CompUSA selling Macintoshes. Always wish I had had the money to buy a NeXT computer of any type back then. That Turbo Cube with the NeXTdimension board was my fantasy computer back in the day. But a $395 3.5" floppy drive and $595 for an ImageWriter II printer kept me grounded on Earth.
you needed to work on an Osbourne II. In grad school I had to deal with heavy metal (ibm, boroughs etc) got my phd before the IBM PC came on the scene (as well as many other systems - the micro world was close to home brew then.. my experience with crt machines is that they failed due to crt related issues.I am waaay old. My first computer, also one of the first to be transportable - a Compaq 'portable' in the shape of a suitcase:
View attachment 2541957 (link)
About a year and a half after I got the Compaq, I got a Mac Plus (after trying the Lisa in one of the labs in my university). Sure, all computers can eventually do pretty much the same things, but the thing that sold me on the MacPlus was QuickDraw embedded in the ROM, which made graphics very quick in comparison to PC's. The easy conversion from QuickDraw to PostScript for high resolution printing helped, and I got nerd street cred for incorporating MacinTalk in some of the programs I wrote for our lab. The Mac Plus was a wonderful machine (without which I might not have managed my PhD), except for the damned flyback transformer for the CRT that eventually died.
When I was only a few years old, my family had an SE/30. That was my first Mac, with a Radius 13" color CRT that you could rotate into portrait mode. We rarely used the built-in black and white screen, but it was available as a (small!) second monitor if necessary.
Mine was a 2011 MacBook Pro. Was such a lovely machine that unfortunately died due to the infamous GPU problem. I still miss it to this day. Currently have a M4 MacBook Air and it’s obviously better in every objective manner, but still wish the old one was still functional. Still have it as I couldn’t get myself to just throw it away.
Used? A powerbook 180c my dad got me because I wanted a mac to try out some old games on ~1998 or so, and an SE my school surplussed from cleaning out storage and gave me because I asked at about the same time (both of which I still have)
New? First mac I bought with my own money, and new, was a 15” 1.33 PB I bought in 2004 (while I dont have that specific machine anymore I do have one of the same model I picked up much later for nostalgia )
New? First mac I bought with my own money, and new, was a 15” 1.33 PB I bought in 2004 (while I dont have that specific machine anymore I do have one of the same model I picked up much later for nostalgia
)
MacBook 2,1 (Late 2006) Black
2GHz C2D, 2GB RAM and 160GB HDD
Came with OS X 10.4 Tiger, was a great machine. Backlight eventually died.
2GHz C2D, 2GB RAM and 160GB HDD
Came with OS X 10.4 Tiger, was a great machine. Backlight eventually died.
The one I have now. 16 inch MacBook Pro (M3).
My journey into the walled garden of Apple, was not a well laid out, highly traversed path. It was one of exploration, and happenstance.
For years, I was firmly and rabidly planted in camp Android/Windows. Going back to the HTC One, and first Galaxy S phones. I wanted nothing to do with the enemy.
Then about 2 years ago, for the ***** and giggles of it, I bought a drone. Not a good one, but a drone nonetheless. I became enthralled with the hobby. Purchased a top notch DJI, and began to dabble in video editing. My Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra did a fine job, until I became interested in not just silly little videos, but more mature production. Upon much research, time and time again, no matter the reviewing agent, the MacBook came out on top, but being the thick headed Neanderthal that I am, I opted for anything other than an Apple device.
I purchased myself an Asus ProArt P16, which by all accounts, is a fantastic machine. It accomplished everything I asked of it, and then some. It took me awhile to become accustomed to most of it features. Some I thought I’d never really use. But after some surfing in YouTube Cove, I decided to give the features a chance, one did not work at all. So, I reached out to Asus’ “customer service”, from the moment the agent answered, it was clear they were frantically googling the information. They had absolutely no clue what they were talking about, giving me helpful tactics and advice, for a device that wasn’t mine. After 2 hours of this nonsense, I decided to end the call. I took the device back to Best Buy, and their Geek Squad figured it out in about 6 seconds. Apparently, it was a user error, I had inadvertently disabled the feature.
I reached out to Asus’ corporate level, I received nothing but corporate double talk, empty scripted apologies, and for the most part, complete silence. I decided to return the Asus, bite the bullet, and buy the MaBook.
Now, while the MacBook wasn’t without issues (again, mostly my Apple ignorance), it was clear Apple’s customer support was vastly superior to anything I ever experienced, from Android or Windows.
After using the MacBook for awhile, yes it is indeed a fantastic machine for editing videos at a professional level. More research led me to understand that Apple devices have a knack for communicating with each other, I purchased myself a 16 ProMax for experimentation, and ended keeping it.
Eventually, I purchased the entire matching set. Watch, AirPods, and most recently an iPad Air.
My journey into the walled garden of Apple, was not a well laid out, highly traversed path. It was one of exploration, and happenstance.
For years, I was firmly and rabidly planted in camp Android/Windows. Going back to the HTC One, and first Galaxy S phones. I wanted nothing to do with the enemy.
Then about 2 years ago, for the ***** and giggles of it, I bought a drone. Not a good one, but a drone nonetheless. I became enthralled with the hobby. Purchased a top notch DJI, and began to dabble in video editing. My Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra did a fine job, until I became interested in not just silly little videos, but more mature production. Upon much research, time and time again, no matter the reviewing agent, the MacBook came out on top, but being the thick headed Neanderthal that I am, I opted for anything other than an Apple device.
I purchased myself an Asus ProArt P16, which by all accounts, is a fantastic machine. It accomplished everything I asked of it, and then some. It took me awhile to become accustomed to most of it features. Some I thought I’d never really use. But after some surfing in YouTube Cove, I decided to give the features a chance, one did not work at all. So, I reached out to Asus’ “customer service”, from the moment the agent answered, it was clear they were frantically googling the information. They had absolutely no clue what they were talking about, giving me helpful tactics and advice, for a device that wasn’t mine. After 2 hours of this nonsense, I decided to end the call. I took the device back to Best Buy, and their Geek Squad figured it out in about 6 seconds. Apparently, it was a user error, I had inadvertently disabled the feature.
I reached out to Asus’ corporate level, I received nothing but corporate double talk, empty scripted apologies, and for the most part, complete silence. I decided to return the Asus, bite the bullet, and buy the MaBook.
Now, while the MacBook wasn’t without issues (again, mostly my Apple ignorance), it was clear Apple’s customer support was vastly superior to anything I ever experienced, from Android or Windows.
After using the MacBook for awhile, yes it is indeed a fantastic machine for editing videos at a professional level. More research led me to understand that Apple devices have a knack for communicating with each other, I purchased myself a 16 ProMax for experimentation, and ended keeping it.
Eventually, I purchased the entire matching set. Watch, AirPods, and most recently an iPad Air.
New here. My first Mac is this latest MacBook Pro M4 Pro, 14 inch with 48GB RAM.
I transitioned from Chromebook to MacBook Pro. 💻 It was an interesting upgrade to do.
Also was sick and tired of renting windows laptops from the school bookstore, they had rubbish IT support from the district that installed my work software way too late and ended up making me stranded without a powerful laptop for my engineering studies. When these loaners stop working.
I love my MacBook Pro 💻! It’s a great upgrade and I can run VMs super easily on it! !
goldmac2006:
“I love my MacBook Pro 💻! It’s a great upgrade”
I will agree with you.
While on one hand, I absolutely love the freedom Android and Windows provide, their lack of uniform cohesion, and their woefully undertrained support, was the final nail in their coffin, for me at least.
“I love my MacBook Pro 💻! It’s a great upgrade”
I will agree with you.
While on one hand, I absolutely love the freedom Android and Windows provide, their lack of uniform cohesion, and their woefully undertrained support, was the final nail in their coffin, for me at least.
My First Mac, the one I bought with my own money, was a Max II, 1993ish. I got it with my first jobs tax return, only the Case with CPU, Motherboard, RAM, and Hard Drive (105MB). Nothing else was included in the want ads listing. Over the next summer I bougght a 14 inch apple color plus montor a third party keyboard and mouse (dont remember the brands but the mouse had 3 buttons). Lastly I boaught a graphics card capable of 256 colors. Good times, still love when I get to see that design and hope to someday pick one up again.
A second hand Quadra. I remember how hard it was to build a network, share files and even fonts with PCs. I was always using TransMac to move files back and forth.
It’s interesting. Did you also transition from a Chromebook to a Mac, like me? Let me know.