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What was your first Mac?
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My first was a 2004 G5 1.8 DP monster!
Maxed out with 8GB of memory, Super drive and 512GB of storage. It cost more than my M4 Mac Mini Pro.and I still have it and don't know what to do with it along with the 17” Studio display.
At the time, I thought I was the shites!
Maxed out with 8GB of memory, Super drive and 512GB of storage. It cost more than my M4 Mac Mini Pro.and I still have it and don't know what to do with it along with the 17” Studio display.
At the time, I thought I was the shites!
13-inch MacBook Pro (Early 2011). Base spec with 4gb RAM and 320gb HDD. First MBP with Thunderbolt, I remember the Specialist at Apple telling me the port won’t be useful right now, but it’s futureproof. I don’t think I used Thunderbolt until my current M3 MBA 😂. Any I LOVED that Mac.
My 7500 was my second Mac as well. Although my first was the 7100 - purchased upon graduation at Berklee College of Music as I had just learned music sequencing on Opcode Vision and I needed my own computer to keep doing it. Back then, you could really tell the differences in speed from one generation to the next.My Dad brought home the original Macintosh (128K) in 1984, but the first one that was 'mine' was a IIcx that was handed down to me in Jr. High. I had that until I got a 7500 for college.
Let me tell you - going from a 16MHz '030 to a 100MHz 601 was huuuuuuuuuge!
Almost ironically, learning everything else on a Mac (from simple applications to internet connections, etc) was so, so much harder back then that I became self-taught in IT...which led to my next career.
My first manual was Macs for Dummies by David Pogue (which I thought was a redundant title)...and I learned a ton.
1999 PowerMac G4 (the Graphite tower.)
Amazing and easy machine to upgrade, as were the cheese grater Mac Pros (G5, then the Intel Mac Pro) I replaced it with.
Amazing and easy machine to upgrade, as were the cheese grater Mac Pros (G5, then the Intel Mac Pro) I replaced it with.
My first was a Power Macintosh 6100 in I think late 1994. It was the first model with the PowerPC CPU, the 601. I don't recall the amount of memory or storage; the hard drive might have been 250 MB.
My first mac was a Mac IIci, bought in 1989(?) along with a Supermac 21" monitor and an Apple Laserwriter printer.
Who misses the 17 inch, biggest MacBook Pro ever existed?
It was even bigger than the 16 inch MacBook Pros of the latest generation.
“Our” two were 2 black plastic 12” refurbed Mac Books,(not pro’s). Can’t remember the year. Replaced it with a 2013 13 “MB Air. Just replaced it with a 2025 15” MBA,M4,32 GB Memory, 1 TB SSD, BEST Laptop I ever had!
Well... the first home computer I've ever played with probably was an Apple 1 or 2 in elementary school (around 1980). One parent brought it during a theme week. It ran a game where you had to help a puppet to cross a busy street using one push button. It was a typical black & white wire graphics game.
The next one was a Apple 2 owned by some rich family where we used to house-sit. Me and me friend spent hours typing code from a magazine; Frogger if I remember correctly.
Then in 80ies and 90ies things diverted a bit. I got a Commodore 128 from my parents (still have it). Used GEOS128 on it (with memory expansion) which was a kind like a Macintosh. During my internship at AT&T I got a leftover NCR PC. Used it with GEOworks, also a bit like GEOS. Windows 3.11 just didn't work for me. Other PC's just caused more "discomfort".
When I started my career as an engineer at a television facilities company, Mac's were back in my life. By 1999 I was involved in a production where producers used a PowerMac G3. That one triggered it... I had to get my own Mac. Two years later I saved enough to get the brand new PowerBook G4 Titanium 550MHz. This one was my first Mac I actually owned. Man, it was indeed the "super computer" as Jeff Goldblum said in the commercial. So reliable. Used it at home, in studio's and on location. Even developed custom applications on it for dedicated computers that were in use at work and TV stations. Loved that machine, especially MacOS X.
Below all the rest I got in the last 25 years.
The next one was a Apple 2 owned by some rich family where we used to house-sit. Me and me friend spent hours typing code from a magazine; Frogger if I remember correctly.
Then in 80ies and 90ies things diverted a bit. I got a Commodore 128 from my parents (still have it). Used GEOS128 on it (with memory expansion) which was a kind like a Macintosh. During my internship at AT&T I got a leftover NCR PC. Used it with GEOworks, also a bit like GEOS. Windows 3.11 just didn't work for me. Other PC's just caused more "discomfort".
When I started my career as an engineer at a television facilities company, Mac's were back in my life. By 1999 I was involved in a production where producers used a PowerMac G3. That one triggered it... I had to get my own Mac. Two years later I saved enough to get the brand new PowerBook G4 Titanium 550MHz. This one was my first Mac I actually owned. Man, it was indeed the "super computer" as Jeff Goldblum said in the commercial. So reliable. Used it at home, in studio's and on location. Even developed custom applications on it for dedicated computers that were in use at work and TV stations. Loved that machine, especially MacOS X.
Below all the rest I got in the last 25 years.
I got given an old Power Mac 9600 tower in the early 2000s. I loved it so much I switched from PC and never went back. I got a beige G3 pretty soon after and kept getting better used macs up to a MDD G4. I have such fond memories of watching all the new product launches like the first iPod and the G5 iMac and power Mac.
Nah those 2008s had bum GPUs, they just ran too hot for the enclosure. I've had to replace one as well in a machine that barely had any optical drive use.
Still got mine, still use it. Thanks OCLP.
First Mac I used was the original one in 1984 - doing some internship in junior high… But I didn’t get one for myself until the G4 Mac Mini was released in 2005… After that, many others have followed 😄
Mine is a 1988 Macintosh SE FD HD. I still have it, it still works 37 years later! It’s running System 7.5.1
Mine was the original 128k mac. What a relief after DOS, and the 400k 3.5" floppy that sang to you was an art form. MacPaint and MacWrite were magic! Ah, the simple good ol' days!
Definitely an Apple 2 as the first Apple computer was geared towards experimenters/hobbyists. I first saw an Apple 2 at the "First West Coast Computer Faire" (April 1977) and picked up a flyer, which is probably somewhere in my garage. Trip Hawkins told me that Faire was where he found out about Apple.