Poll:First Apple computer that you owned?

[Voaks]

Apple IIc was my first.

[minik]

Performa 6116CD in 1996.

[AndyHogan]

Performa 5200 for the family
iMac G3 266 MHz for myself

[tMac85]

i wish i knew which but i was small and young and it was 1991.

so just pick one i guess.

recently however a MBP.

[peterlobl]

Apple ][ plus (Flight Simulator!!)

[arohl74]

Just bought it Saturday! :D

[BJ.SoundWave360]

Powerbook 170. I love the little guy, but I worked at a record company and we were soon to move to all using computers, PC's. Even though our Prez at the time, Howie Klein, pushed for Macs. he'd have won that war today.

BJ

[iTattoo]

Ordered this baby August 7 - within an hour of it being released and haven't looked back.

This is the 3rd Mac in my house, but "my" first Mac - I love it - and if it wasn't for the fact that I have to run some Windoze apps for work, I'd have changed a long time ago.

[drewsof07]

Tibook running at 1Ghz, $3,000 on that baby. Just sold it last week for a hefty $470 haha depreciation is a fact of life, but try to squeeze that out of a PC laptop after 6 years!

[J-mizzle]

My mom had an Apple IIci when I was like 8 or something, and I played space invaders on it and had a lot of fun with ClarisWorks, but my first apple computer was my 333 Mhz G3 iBook with firewire. I loved that thing, but I can't possibly imagine how I put up with running Final Cut on that... I could never go back to it.

[idonotliketostu]

Tibook running at 1Ghz, $3,000 on that baby. Just sold it last week for a hefty $470 haha depreciation is a fact of life, but try to squeeze that out of a PC laptop after 6 years!



wow if u think about it,

thats like almost 30-40 bucks a month,

[jons]

PowerMac G3 Beige

[MacManiac777]

iMac G3 450Mhz with 256mb RAM. Came with Mac OS 9.0.4

Later updated to 576mb RAM and Tiger.

[riscy]

My present MB - bought it April '07, so now a year old.

I got it a birthday present of 2GB of RAM this year, and an Xmas prezzie in December of a new HD :)

[Nedanator]

Performa 6220

[Papa Smurf]

Macintosh 128K
I still have it, and it still works "just a curio now".:)

[FastEddy]

I started by repairing Apple I for a friend ... then became local Apple service @ early M&P computer store. My first personal was an Apple II ... Loved it! Learned BASIC well enough to teach it ...

Currently: (1) new iMac @ home, (1) recent MacBook @ home, (3) Mac Minis @ work, (1) older Mac Mini & (1) old Cube @ niece/nephew. :cool:

[jodelli]

Mac Plus, 2mb Ram 40mb drive

[McBoberts]

My current MBP which I got in October of last year.

[Lord Zedd]

Centris 610. About as OLD as the current poll.

[Applepi]

Don't remember the specs, but it was a 2nd revision MacMini. Haven't looked back since. ;)

[CrazyLazyMan]

I should have switched ages ago but I didn't know any better. :( Anyway, I jumped on board when the 12" ibook was the must have. I must say I still have it and its still going strong!!

[/\/\]

Mac Pro (early 2008) :)

[marbles]

iMac 2Ghz 2005

[The General]

12" Powerbook G4 right before the Intel switch.

[nostaws]

My first apple computer wasn't an apple at all. It was a Franklin Ace 1000. I still have the computer and the manual, but haven't tried to turn it on in years.

http://www.vintage-computer.com/franklin.shtml

But my first computer was a Commodore vic 20.

[awvan]

My first Mac is my two week old 1.6/80 MacBook Air. And I love it.

[marbles]

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But my first computer was a Commodore vic 20.


do you remember 'Blue Meanies' ??

[fanspeed]

mac mini dec. 2005

[nostaws]

Blue Meanies

Yeah, but my favorites were Gorf and Omega Race.

[Pat H]

The Mac Pro I got in January is my first Mac. Couldn't be happier!

[DouglasP]

A Mac mini. I almost sent it back too. I had the RMA from Apple and as the weekend waited I played with it and eventually fell in love with OS X.

[lawsonjones]

apple mac book pro

[jnc]

G4 Mac Mini :D

[matt90]

A G1 (?) built in 1991 running OS 8.6. I didn't get a new computer until 2006.

[marbles]

Yeah, but my favorites were Gorf and Omega Race.

dont remember those , well I was only 11 at the time :)

blue meanies was my world for a while ...oh and loading the tapes for what felt like a week ....ahh the memories
:)

[thehuhman]

Mac 128. The one with the signatures embedded inside the case. I bought it new in 1984. Still have the receipt. It cost me like $2700! A LOT of $$ in those days... Heck. that's a lot in THESE days!:o

[Arnenys]

Macintosh SE from 198x :confused: ;) don't know it anymore:D
Now a white Macbook, and going to buy a new one when it comes out. (WWDC?:o)

[jwood74]

I got my first and still current Apple computer last year. I got 15" MacBook Pro. I had never really had any sort of experience with Macs up until that point, but it has been a decision I will never regret. It it leaps and bounds better than anything I had used previously and I always look forward to what I will be using next when I choose to upgrade.

[macwall]

Performa 5200. Those were the good old days.

[rhett7660]

I am late to the game, but my first Mac is the one that is in my Sig.

[jnc]

I am late to the game, but my first Mac is the one that is in my Sig.

That's one hell of a machine to swtich to :D

[mithrilfox]

I started out with the iBook G4, late summer model 2005. Bought my wife the same machine many months later as a wedding present, and realized that they changed the basic feel of the keyboard.

I've since purchased a MacBook, and have just put the payment down for an iMac, and I'm waiting for it to arrive.

[iphone.luke]

I want a macbook pro but cant afford it, so i bought a comparible Dell Vostro 1500, 2ghz C2D, 4 Gigz of ram, 160gb hdd, Geforce 8600M GT 256mb.

Sadly I still want the MBP

I havn't owned any macs but use them at school.

[TheCreator]

12" g4 powerbook was my first....

[jnc]

I want a macbook pro but cant afford it, so i bought a comparible Dell Vostro 1500, 2ghz C2D, 4 Gigz of ram, 160gb hdd, Geforce 8600M GT 256mb.

Sadly I still want the MBP

I havn't owned any macs but use them at school.

"comparable Dell" is an oxymoron, I'm afraid. :p

[luisgab]

My 1st Mac is a 2months old Penryn Blackbook... Never want to come back to PC's

[jdd08]

I started out on an Bondi Blue iMac G3. Then I moved on to my current computers: iBook G4 and iMac G4, both purchased new in Spring 2004. i have recently made upgrades to those computers. My iBook now has 1.25GB ram, an airport card, 160GB hard drive, super drive, a new keyboard, and runs Leopard. My iMac now has an airport card, 1 GB ram, and runs Leopard. Both computers are now 4 years old and run great!

[shizzlegtx]

I personally never owned a mac myself until I bought a Macbook, but growing up my dad had a Macintosh IIcx. I used that until he bought me a PC when I went to highschool.

[contoursvt]

my first was my Atari 800XL

http://powerthings.com/pics/800XL.jpg

[SDLSteve]

Power mac 7200

[gean]

My first Computer was an Apple 2c. I then bought an Apple 2gs. When they dropped it i went to pc.:( Now i own a imac 24inch screen with 2 gig of ram.:D


gean :rolleyes:

[voglioleali]

hello, this is my first mac: macbook pro. i had an acer and i decided to buy a mac the third time the acer died for the same problem.
love this one, is even more intelligent than me :p

[prof.Milgram]

My first Mac-compatible (clone) was an PowerComputing PowerCenter 132. Twelwe years ago.

[andybno1]

my first mac was a macbook white which was bought only a couple of months ago........... just wish I could of pushed the boat out for a 20inch iMac instead or maybe a macbook pro

[jnc]

my first mac was a macbook white which was bought only a couple of months ago........... just wish I could of pushed the boat out for a 20inch iMac instead or maybe a macbook pro

But if you bought an iMac you wouldn't have portability, and if you bought a MBP you'd have a hell of a lot less money :p MacBooks are a good start.

Before looking into another Mac, research what you feel you're missing from the MacBook...

[Dmac77]

Aluminum iMac, after over a year of bugging my parents and telling them that a Mac can do just about anything a windoze box and probably better they caved:D Now I'm looking to get a MBP, and my birthday isn't far away:D

[skypark]

This is my first one. I have had it about 2 months now and don't ask me to give it up.


:p

[NE1956]

The year: 1988
The Mac: A MacPlus
R.I.P: 1996 :(

Now I own an early 2008 edition iMac (2.66GHz);)

[costabunny]

It was about 1992ish - an LCII (with 2Mb RAM!!!) and a 14" colour monitor - I loved that machine as it seemed fast and lovely - I think it was OS7.1. I remember making my own sound bites and assigning them to system bells - ahhh what fun times... and playing lemmings of course.

68030 @ 16MHz w00t with 40Mb Hard disk (back then CDRoms were 2xspeed and about £300 so I didnt have one)

She went about 1998 (due to lack of space with my PC taking centre stage) - the folly of our youth eh?

Now its a pair of intel macs (one for serious stuff and one for playing on the web and showing photos in the field)

[andy721]

power mac g3 233mhz maxed it out but what a pos

[G-Com]

800 MHz Quicksilver tower. 1999. It was my external drive after I bought my first iMac. It croaked a few months ago.

[zephyrnoid]

Mac 128K. yeah, that long ago!

[littleb2005]

http://lowendmac.com/quadra/performa-630.html

can thank mac.theunderdogs for the good old gaming times i had on this baby

[ninjapenguinart]

My first computer was a Compaq with ME on it that had 866mhz CPU and a 20 gig HD . . . let's just say I wanted to burn the thing and give its ashes and exorcism so it would never haunt me again. After 4 or 5 years with that thing, I got sick of it and convinced my parents that a PowerBook G4 1.33GHz 512mb 12" is what I wanted after telling them all the benefits of mac and how it will be integrated into the future. I chose mac because 1. wanted to stay the hell away from anything that was windows for a while. 2. Didn't know too much about linux back then, and luckily they had recently opened up a mac store in the mall by my house so I was able to show my parents how shiny and spiffy of a laptop it was ^_^

[DiamondMac]

My current MacBookPro :D

Joined this forum right before I bought mine looking for suggestion on WHAT to buy and WHERE to buy it

[Primus84]

Powerbook G4 1.33Ghz, 1Gb RAM 15 inch.

[teksurv]

1st gen Macbook Core Duo. <-- just got it, really excited!

[GGJstudios]

Apple II .... about 110 years ago, it seems!

[cjduckk]

Mine was a Mac Plus as well. Gotta love the 9" B&W Screen! =)

[kabunaru]

iMac G3

[aznmacwiz]

2nd gen blackbook. i am very new to the mac world

[hubristol]

our first family computer was an apple performa 640 CD.

the first mac I ever *owned* all to myself is my current one - a 20" iMac G5.

[TwinCities Dan]

'93 Performa 475 :)

[bradl]

Old thread, new guy, so what the hey! :)

Apple ][e, 64K memory, 80column card, 2x 5.25" dual floppy drives.

Still have it, love it, and will whip anyone who challenges me to a game of Zaxxon or Karateka on it any day! :D

BL.

[srent5]

iBook G3, and my Girlfriend is still using it.

[candyman]

My first personally owned Mac computer is a 15" Titanium Powerbook G4 - 667MHz maxed out with 1GB! Still have it in fact as my wife uses it daily for nursing school. Not bad for a 6 year old machine!

[jackalope]

original imac (the turquoise one :) )

[idyll]

For me it was the mirror drive G4.

[thechidz]

had an apple IIc waaaay back before I knew what was going on. My first real experience was a powerbook g4 12":cool:

[fredsarran]

A white iBook G4, the model just before the new MacBook came out.

[Wotan31]

12" iBook G4, 1.0 Ghz. OS X 10.3.9

[HandleVandal]

A 350mhz slot loading blueberry iMac. Got it for Christmas in 1999, in time for me to start college in 2000.

I have a ridiculous emotional attachment to Big Mac, formed by three years (had to buy a iBook my senior year) of typing papers at 2a.m. and lugging him up and down the six flights of stairs in my dorm in a laundry basket at the beginning/end of each year and holidays.

I'm happy to report, even at its advanced age of 9 years, it's still in use today. I pimped him out last year with a 600mhz logic board, dvd drive, 120GB HD and 1GB of ram. So it's Big Mac 2.0, a great little machine that zips right along and still proves useful.

[MaddMacs]

My first was a Mac LC, I bought for college in 1990. My mom loved it so much I had to drive to her house to use it for the first year. She finally bought herself a LC II the next year, and I could take my computer with me. Then I bought a Performa CD/TV, a PM8500, a PM9600, a Powerbook G4, a Mac Mini, and Finally my beloved Mac Pro.

[ttopp]

my first mac was an iMac 333mhz Grape.. i miss it an old girl friend stole it ..... :(

[MacHappytjg]

when i was 3 or something we had a macintosh 512k
imac g3 indglo slot load 350mhz 192mb ram and 10.3.9
next was my first year macbook base model
then my eMac g4 1ghz 768mb ram and 40gb and i put leopard on i bought in april

[RaceTripper]

Macintosh SE
Macintosh IIci
PowerBook 2300 Duo
PowerMac 9600


now I have a C2D MacBook Pro

[iphonesrq]

Powerbook g4 1.25 for me....best computer i've ever had

[trishiegail]

Showing my age but a 128K

[aapl.jlo]

A Tangerine iBook! YUM!

That was such a cool laptop, wish it came back...but they wanted to make the computers more 'professional'. I WANT VARIETY BACK! :) Colors! Colors!
:apple:

[foobar909]

Oh, my, all you younguns make me feel my age. I'm only, like, a hundred and thirty or so...

I had an Apple II, before the IIE, before the IIC, even before the II+. 16k of RAM. Yes, that's 16,256 bytes of RAM.

Bless y'all, turned onto Apple in the 21st century.

[Insulin Junkie]

Performa 5200. Actually that's the first computer I ever owned aswell :cool:

[MattKanzler]

I just bought my first!

Black MacBook
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x2GB
250GB Serial ATA Drive@5400rpm
SD 8x(DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)

[iwuzbord]

im actually in the midst of buying my first.
either a blackbook , or a white one with the same specs.

[Hrududu]

Mine was a Macintosh Plus. Didn't use it much since I had a fully loaded Commodore 128. Then I got my Quadra 800 and that was the first Mac I really used. Still got it too. 4 hard drives and maxed out in RAM running 8.1 in all its glory. Probably the best Mac I've ever owned.

[adevejian]

Just bought my first (in my signature) after 15 years of PC's.

[colonels1020]

My "Flower Power" iMac G3. I still have it, but it's now used as a Linux server. :)

[jtbell]

My first one was an Mac SE with two floppy drives, in 1987. A year later I paid $600 or $700 for an external hard disk with a whopping 20 megabytes!

This was followed by:

SE/30 (1990 or 1991)
60 MHz PowerMac 6100 (1993)
66 MHz Power Mac 6100 (1994) when the first one died.
PowerMac G3 (1998) (I don't remember how fast this one was)
Single-processor 1.25 GHz PowerMac G4 MDD (2003)
8-core 2.8 GHz Mac Pro (arriving in a few days :D)

I kept the SE/30 until it died in 2004, because I had a database of my classical-music collection on it using a relational database (Reflex Plus) that didn't work on any new Mac after about 1992. After the SE/30 died, I moved the database to MySQL on the G4.

[dannyminick]

first mac i ever owned was a mac mini ;)

[Metuas]

A Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5, back in June '04. Still runs like a dream. In retrospect, getting the uber-top-of-the-line model was a good choice.

[jnc]

Just bought my first (in my signature) after 15 years of PC's.

Holy... balls. What a machine :eek:

[bpl323]

Performa something... it's old.

[haravikk]

First Mac I had was a Performa 6300 (I think that's the number), it was a slow PowerPC but ran all I needed at the time just fine. Put a USB card and a 16mb PCI graphics card into it. Got the full multimedia suite, so it came with 17" Apple screen, and an Apple printer (I forget the names of these, they've both died by now).
The Performa still works, but I've little use for it now.

Since then I've got a 400mhz G3 iMac, a PowerMac G5 and am now using a MacPro.

[SnowLeopard2008]

My first mac was an iBook G4 that I got when I started junior high school and my pc was going south. That got stolen in 9th grade homecoming so I went back to the pc for awhile... then november of the same year, apple had like $100+ discount during thanksgiving or something, and I had a orthodontist appointment, my dad drove to the valleyfair that was really nearby (like 5ish miles) and i got my current laptop, a macbook. I currently a sophomore lol.

[MacGuy25]

My First Mac was an 1.25Ghz eMac that I bought on August 22, 2004. It's not my main machine anymore, but I still use it for certain tasks.

[SDLSteve]

Powerbook 140 and a Power Mac 7200

[dmr727]

My progression since 1984:

Macintosh
Mac Plus
Mac IIcx
PowerMac 7500
400MHz PowerMac G4
500Mhz iBook
1.5GHz PowerMac G4

Next up will probably be a MBP, or possibly a Mac Pro and something cheaper for the road.

[crobbins]

My first machine was kind of an iBook in 05 but then the intel switch was announced so I took it back and bought a MacBook Pro when they came out.

[Old Smuggler]

Mine Was an eMac 1.25Ghz
installed an original bluetooth chip on board after i bought it
well worth it

[gibbz]

Mine was the 1.33GHz 12" iBook G4. I loved that laptop.

[tvguy]

This baby was maxed out with 4 megs of ram... and it still runs!!!
I think it was around $3000.00 new or some crazy price.

[kabunaru]

Just bought my first (in my signature) after 15 years of PC's.

Your Mac can beat anybody's Mac on here. Nobody will dare challenge you. :D

[Coldacre]

my first was the one I'm using now. I can't believe I put up with PC's for so long. what was I thinking!

[Enigmafan420]

Apple II+ for me,

also owned an Apple 2 GS

Now (after 3 years in the Amiga World and 15 in the DOS/Windows world) my family has 3(!) minis and a Black Macbook (last generation-before the current revision).

[Mr9758]

G5 Power Mac for me!

[PM Smith]

IIsi and a Stylewriter in late 1991.

[Chris.]

Apple iMac (Bought around a month ago).

[dm10003]

when i told a friend i bought the new macII(x!!!) with EXTENDED KEYBOARD he replied, "you stud!". my hard drive had FORTY MEGS!!! and 8 megs of ram when ram was $365 PER MEG!!! my apple laser printer cost THIRY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!! my 17" monitor was deeper than it was wide!!! quark xpress and aldus pagemaker were still battling for prominence, adobe illustrator and aldus freehand were also. i went the pagemaker/freehand route but switched to illustrator/quark when updates past 1.0 dominated. everyone was learning from ground level and not even teenagers knew that much. the initial investment for computer, monitor, and printer was absolutely outrageous but we had no alternative to compare it to; graphic design on a pc before windows was not an option. btw, no programs seemed to be able to make a decent black-to-white gradation printout, which was necessary because printing companies needed "mechanicals" on boards (eventually they could miraculously take your FLOPPY disc or OMEGA drive disc). don't get me started about modem text interfaces before the internet. simple things were all such a huge struggle, and clients could change your work before acrobat came around.

[mandojeremy]

Powerbook G4 12" 1 ghz. Now have the 1.5 ghz PB 12" and want a MBP but the 15" is too big for me being that I am a professional traveling musician. The 12" form factor is perfect for me. I still wish they would release a 12" MBP but looks to never be.

[Behemoko]

I'm typing on it right now in fact.

My 2.4 GHz Macbook. I've owned Apple products and used Apple computers in school since the early 90s, but this is my first personal Mac. :-)

[thomanjones]

Apple IIGS.

King Quest, Space Quest, Basic. 2 external floppy drives. It was awesome.

[milatchi]

Performa 6200: Christmas of `95.


For the record is was a POS computer. Apple's lucky I ever bought another Mac from them after that.

[sra. Aguirre]

Vote: Poll:First Apple computer that you owned? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=88&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

First Mac I used/had was in 1996, System 7.5 it was, don't even know/remember what the machine was called...gosh....how times have changed since........I have been a sinner in between cause have been on the Windows side for quite some time due to lack of proper money..but I am back!:D

[dimme]

Mac II ci

[Mellieko]

My first mac was a second-hand 1.25 GHz eMac G4, 512 MB RAM from 2004 which I bought last year in November. That same eMac is still my primary computer now, I've only owned one mac so far.

[jstanier]

Mine was a 1.5Ghz Powerbook G4. It's still going strong, although I don't really use it that much any more.

[Macsta]

Macintosh Performa 637CD in 1994

[Freewayjim]

My first Mac was a G5 20" iMac that I bought at Costco in January 2006, I got caught in the iPod/iTunes Halo effect as I just recieved my 1st iPod for Christmas in 12/05. I had some extra $ and the price was good (and it came with AppleCare) so I figured I'd see what all the fuss was about.

Trying a Mac was the best computer decision I ever made!

[Col127]

Vote: Poll:First Apple computer that you owned? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=88&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

a 450mhz dual processor. i started with OS 9. i sitll have that machine. it's still useful for surfing web, small tasks like that. i can't bear to get rid of it since it's only worth $100-200 now and i bought it for over $3000! :)

[PowerFullMac]

iBook G3, 900MHz and 256MB RAM (later updated to 384MB).

[OrangeNano]

The iMac. It stole my heart the day I took it out of the box. Never going back.

[drFUNK]

My first OSX experience was actually on a Dell. However, I immediately fell in love with it and bought an 800mhz G3 iBook.

[xrockislife3016]

My first and current the mac mini 1.83ghz c2d

[JMN357]

An original first generation iMac.
Greatest unpacking I have ever had still to this very day.

[mustangsally82]

A Macintosh Performa 6200CD. It had a 75Mhz PowerPC Processor, a 1GB hard drive, and 8 MB RAM. It came with Mac OS 7.5.5. I bought it in 1995, and it was my only computer until August, 2000 when I got a Blueberry iMac.

We spent countless hours playing Oregon Trail and Power Pete together. I still have it, too. ;)

[joecool85]

My first Apple was an Apple //e. I got it for free from my elementary school and I learned how to do some basic programming on it before I got into middle school.

My first "modern" Apple is/was my rev a 12" PowerBook G4. I still have it (typing on it now actually), it's my only laptop ever, and I have used it every single day for at least an hour a day since I bought it in August 2003.

[georgina.carr]

Mine was my current computer, my first laptop and probably the best thing i ever convinced my dad to get me, my iBook G4, its very low spec though (can't wait for Tuesday :)) as my dad didn't want to spend more money on a better one as he didn't trust it would work, to the point where he said anything went wrong i had to fix it off my own back with no help from him!! Since, i have converted him and he has a mini at home, and my sister has a current Macbook!!

[gailrooney]

I still have it.

[duck69]

Mine was a Performa 6300CD :rolleyes:

[RRutter]

Blue ClamShell LapTop.

That BaBy WaS nice

A Macintosh Performa 6200CD. It had a 75Mhz PowerPC Processor, a 1GB hard drive, and 8 MB RAM. It came with Mac OS 7.5.5. I bought it in 1995, and it was my only computer until August, 2000 when I got a Blueberry iMac.

We spent countless hours playing Oregon Trail and Power Pete together. I still have it, too. ;)

Blueberry iMac, FTW!

My first Apple was an Apple //e. I got it for free from my elementary school and I learned how to do some basic programming on it before I got into middle school.

My first "modern" Apple is/was my rev a 12" PowerBook G4. I still have it (typing on it now actually), it's my only laptop ever, and I have used it every single day for at least an hour a day since I bought it in August 2003.

Before middle school? Very nice..

Mine was my current computer, my first laptop and probably the best thing i ever convinced my dad to get me, my iBook G4, its very low spec though (can't wait for Tuesday :)) as my dad didn't want to spend more money on a better one as he didn't trust it would work, to the point where he said anything went wrong i had to fix it off my own back with no help from him!! Since, i have converted him and he has a mini at home, and my sister has a current Macbook!!

Yes, mine is my current one as well, but not quite as late as a G4. Just the current gen. MacBook.

[OrganMusic]

The first apple product I actually owned was a Newton I bought in a garage sale around 2002. I actually did use it a bit. I still have it and it does work though the display is a bit scrambled since it got rained on a bit once :(

Just bought a 24" imac as the first step in converting to the world of non-windows.

[saMac]

first was a //c

followed by a trio of LC-IIs (OS 7.5) in a home appletalk network sharing a 33.6 modem connection.

[hughvane]

Used in Education
Apple IIc
Apple IIe
Apple IIgs
Mac LCII
Mac LC475
Mac LC575

Owned
Apple IIsi (my first personal one)
PowerMac 6200
PowerMac G3 beige
PPC G3 b/w
G4 eMac

[DARKJ3DI]

mine was a MacBook 2.4 GHz. I STILL HAVE THAT OLD MACHINE,,, LOL

[ladytonya]

Love this thread!

Mine was a Mac Classic purchased in 1991. 8" grayscale screen, really really slow. Also a 14.4 modem when they came out, it was my first modem. Used to use it to connect to the Pine and Elm email systems at school and had Prodigy service, too. I loved that thing back then! LOL! Actually still have it somewhere at my mom's. Last time I had it out, it still worked.

[TFMTASAD]

A VERY EXPENSIVE Macintosh Centris (can't remember which one though)

I basically ruined myself getting one.

[gmecca2]

Powerbook G4 12''

[Bargsbeer]

http://i38.tinypic.com/3149wg3.jpg


Mac Plus got it as a birthday present back in the 80s from my parents. I loved that computer used it for many years.I remember it had 1MB Ram and 20MB external hard drive and it came with a Image writer printer.

[tjcampbell]

White iBook G3 with combo drive

[posimosh]

2.4x2 intel duo core, 2gb memory 667ddr2sdram

[dougelo7]

I got a 1G 1.83GHz 512MB 15" MacBook Pro for my twelfth birthday in 2006, then I got an iMac for Christmas 2007, now I'm going to get a MacBook Air after I've saved enough money for it.

[fleshman03]

I've owned in this order:

late 80's- ~97
Apple IIe (Green monitor)
Elementary and middle school years

1998 - 2002
iMac Blue
High School years

2003 - 2008
Dell Dimension 4700 Upgraded from time to time
College years

2008 -
MacBook Pro Classic
Graduate School Year(s)

It should be noted that I am considering getting an update MacBook Pro sometime around next summer.

[Hrududu]

My first Mac was a Macintosh Plus with a SCSI cable added internally. I didn't use it much because I had a Commodore 128 that was loaded with software, RAM Link, two 1571 Drives and 3/5 floppy. Plus the CMD was color. The next Mac I got was a Quadra 800 which I then used more than the CMD. Still got that Quadra. 76Mb of RAM and 4 hard drives in that bad boy.

[Maxington]

Ah, the first one... <tear> kinda nostalgic

[brotherben]

Sorry, I don't know were to post this or if it has been covered. I am new to the site and wanted to ask this question.

What was your first mac? and how long have you been an apple user?
For me My first mac was an iBook g4, I am now using a (white) macbook 2.4GHz 2 GB ram 160 GB HHD. :apple:Mac user for 3 years now.:apple:

I dont have any pic's but when some of you start posting some older mac's I'd like to see some pics ;)

Thanks :D

[zachsilvey]

My first mac was a blue iMac G3.
For my current ones have a look at my sig.

[87vert]

my first mac is the one in my sig. The first mac I ever used was an Apple II in Elementary school

[bigjnyc]

My first mac was a black macbook 2.4ghz 250gb. the latest penryn before the alums. i quickly followed with a 2.8ghz iMac 1.5 months later.

[Toneboat923]

first mac(s) were just two months ago

mac pro 8 core
15 inch macbook pro

[akm3]

Mac Mini (Core (1) Duo) to see what the fuss was about...

Now in my household there is a Macbook Air, a Macbook Pro (late 08), an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and under the tree at Christmas will be an AppleTV, and when our verizon contract expires, two iPhones.

[ChrisA]

The first Mac I ever used as a "512K Mac" it was a little "all in one" mac that did not have a hard drive, just a floppy drive. I still have one of these and last I checked It still powered up and ran.

With 1/2 MB of RAM, a 9 inch black and white screen the "System 1" software it sold for $3,300

We used if for software documentation. Before then Mac We'd use black pens on blue line graph paper, stick-on letters, tape and an xacto knife for graphics.

But for "real work" we were all on Sun equipment Both the Sun and Apple mac used Moto 68000 CPUs but while apple make "cheap" low cost stuff Sun's stuff sold for $50K to $200K per unit (back when 50K was more then many of the younger engineers made in a year)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-2

[jodelli]

This was in another thread a while ago but since I can't find it:
First Mac was a Mac Plus. It was one of the all in one classic Macs that had a scsi interface for the first time. Had expandable memory as well as available external HDD.

[*old-guy*]

I don't think anyone will have bought a cheaper first Mac than me, at least not unless they got it as a present.
Check out eBay item number 310093298447 :)
The good news was that I got it home, stuck in a USB keyboard and mouse and it fired up and ran perfectly.

[peapody]

first mac was a blackbook, and then it went to 1.33 gHz powerbook G4 12" and then it was a Macbook Pro 2.16 C2D which I still have.

Just got my sister a whitebook 2.0 C2D. So that is her first apple!

[autobotjones]

PowerBook G4 400MHz it was good - intill the house flooded :mad:

[brotherben]

PowerBook G4 400MHz it was good - intill the house flooded :mad:
That sucks, did you have a warranty or did the insurance cover it. I know I would be pissed.

[themacman112]

my first Mac is a 17inch iMac, I love it and am now offically Mac 4 Life

[cjbriare]

PowerBook 180.


Got it for $20 at a thrift store. It had tons of software on it. It used to belong to KVVU, which is Channel 5 Las Vegas. It had a lot of appleworks documents of news stories, but it's age killed it after about a year. :(

[jnc]

I got a 1G 1.83GHz 512MB 15" MacBook Pro for my twelfth birthday in 2006, then I got an iMac for Christmas 2007, now I'm going to get a MacBook Air after I've saved enough money for it.

Holy... an MBP at 12? Considering an Air at 14? wow... what I'd give to be a kid this century :p

[Upchuckdown]

First mac is a Macbook Pro 2.8 ghz 4gb ram 512 mb Nvidia video card and a 250 gb hdd

less than a week old !

switched from PC to Mac!

[opeter]

The first Mac i used was a Macintosh Centris 660AV... it had a 25 MHz 68040 Motorola CPU.

My first owned Mac was a PowerMac Digital Audio 466 MHz, that i upgraded with a Sonnet G4 1,4 GHz CPU and maxed the RAM out to 1,5 GB in late 2005. My second Mac (for a short time) was a PowerMac G5 DP 1.8 GHz, maxed out with everything.

My actual Mac is the Mac mini, the one, i have in my sig and using it mostly for scaning on my old A3+ Heidelberg scanner and for archiving purposes of my documents.

I also have a PC (E8200, 8 GB RAM, 150 GB WD Raptor + 2x250 GB HDD in RAID-1 for archive, and a GeForce 7300GS with two displays), that is much more powerfull in meaning of memory in CPU and that one is my main working computer today. Using Windows xp x64 on it.

[Watabou]

Early 2008 Macbook Pro. I love this machine. Never crashed on me...yet. :)
Never had to deal with viruses or anything else.

[RumorzGuy]

My very first purchased Macintosh was a LC III in 1993.

I had worked on a Mac SE or a Mac Plus prior to that, from 1990 onwards , for my employer at the time.

That baby had a 160 MB hard drive, a 13-inch color monitor capable of 256 colors, 8 MB of RAM, as I recall, which I eventually upgraded to 32 MB of RAM, and I believe the CPU speed was 25 mhz.

The very first modem that I ever used with it, to run my BBS, was an Apple modem, which had speeds of 300 baud to 1200 baud, as I recall.

You've come a long way, baby! :)

[chrmjenkins]

Macbook 2.2 Merom. However, that was my second personally owned computer ever. I built my first one :D

My current one is a 2.4 Penryn macbook after I had to sell the original. Only complaint is lack of graphics horsepower.

[NT1440]

Mine will be the new Macbook, with whatever alterations they make at macworld this year (heres to a price cut, and making backlit keyboards affordable!)

[aznguyen316]

this MacBook I'm on now haha. Black one, rev. C

[hootywho]

Just bought my first MBP Core 2 Duo, 15", 4gig ram. Converting from Windows.

[FrankieTDouglas]

My first Apple was a Powerbook years ago.

[JrdBeau]

My first Apple was an original 128k Mac in 1984. Still have it :)

[MacGeekDC]

A 500 MHz iMac G3.

[KítscheñÇinqµe]

400mhz agp sawtooth g4. got free recently. still runs os 8.6. lo mileage. case looks new. hardly any dust inside. haven't used it much.
1st computer i *owned* was a 286-12. rll hd (i think it was 20mb?) 512kB ram? 1kB graphics card. couldn't fax, so i bought a 486 a couple years later. really i don't recall the 286 well...

[spector]

mine was the old original Apple 2 computer back in the early 80's

[liptonlover]

The first one I actually owned is the one I'm using right now, an iMac with upgraded RAM. But I'm 15 and I co-own it with my siblings. The first computer I used was a color mac, and I loved it to death. That commercial is still my favorite *sigh*

[Ropie]

The first I bought was a lime green G3 iMac back in 2000 :) I loved that machine - still have it but rarely use it. The first I used was my dad's Macintosh Classic back in the early 90s; used to really like the way it looked too but it was undeniably limited.

[RoboCop1]

Used the old PowerMac G3's at school. I rember system 7, then 8, the os 9, and now OS X.The iBook G4 was my first mac. Then a black MacBook (current) and soon to be, the new MacBook Pro.

[cMacSW]

Mac 512!

[three]

Blueberry iMac G3. I still own it. :D

[MacNewbie03]

Apple IIe.

[funman895]

A lisa. Not sure the specs. I'm buying a vintage 1984 macintosh 128k though on Ebay.

[QueenZ]

Mine was (and still is)
iBook G4 1.33 512 MB RAM 14'' Works superb so far! :)

[jrrdnx]

Lifelong Windows user.... just made the switch :D

late 2008 15" Macbook Pro :D

[Schtumple]

OSX86 machine

2.53Ghz Pentium Dual Core
1.5Gb Ram
160GB HD
256mb Nvidia gfx card

Even made a nice case for it, search for "My xMac Project" never got around to finishing it though :(

For anyone that doesn't think a OSX86 can be a true Mac, I bought a 2ghz C2D iMac a few months later, the OSX86 machine was there to test the waters of Mac, see if I could get used to using it for day to day things.

[sporadicMotion]

IIci

[dylanbrown]

It was a "Late 2007" model of the MacBook in White, 2GHz, 4GB Ram, 320GB HD.

Its a good machine, but is never out of service, in fact, I'm arranging service right now!

[pjhotham]

My first time was a wonderful experience. I t was with a PowerMac 8100/80.

Back then it cost about $6,000.......and at the time it was worth every cent, although it did earn it's keep.

[T10HJS]

my first apple's were a Mini Mac & MacBook Black (details in Sig) that was 4 months ago then i got hooked and cant help myself my MBP 15" im on now was delivered last week and im in love :D.
:apple:Forever

[DCB1]

II si... paid almost $3000 for it.

Peace

[tcphoto]

I bought a 7500 desktop with a 1710AV monitor in 1994.

[RatVega]

A 1988 Macintosh Classic with external 20MB hard drive... :)

[spazattack674]

Well, my family had a Performa 575 back when I was like 5. But my first personal mac (and my current one) is a Rev. A MacBook. (Needless to say I used PCs in between the Performa 575 and the MacBook)

[kastenbrust]

PowerBook G4 400MHz for me...

...with a 2nd on the way: PowerBook 1GHz :D


haha this thread brings back memories and makes me laugh, how happy we all were apples had reached the 1GHz mark! anyway my first was a Mac Cube :) still collecting some today =]

:apple:

[joegomolski]

Apple IIe, 51/4" floppies!

[jarofclay73]

Technically, it's the iPhone 3G. :D I don't consider the 2G iPod Nano to be a computer. :apple:

[Psycdude]

Apple IIgs circa 1987!
I remember how excited I was when I got a 1200 baud external modem to go along with it. Even though I hadn't learned to type yet, I could still type faster than the modem could transmit to our local BBS's.
Then it was all IBM/Clones/Windows boxes for 20 years until last month when I finally came back to mac,

[Willis]

Cant believe I've never seen this thread.

My first Mac was an 15" iMac G4 800mhz. It had a 60Gb Drive, Superdrive and 1GB of Ram, built in Airport. Loved that machine. Sold it 2 years ago for £400.

Served me well that did.

[92WardSenatorFE]

My first mac.. which I bought on Black Friday this year is a refurbished Early 2008 black MacBook. I can say I've been more satisfied with my mac than I've been with my past 3 pc's combined. :p

[SnowLeopard2008]

I bought my iBook G4 which was one of the last ones before the jump to MacBooks. That was in 2005 or so.

[WinkWink726]

:apple: My first Mac was a 12" Powerbook G4 (1.5Ghz)

:apple: This one is a 13" MacBook Aluminum 2nd Gen (2.4Ghz)

They're all awesome.

So far, the ONLY problem I ever had with the G4 was the Superdrive crapped out on me, but Applecare fixed that little snag. ;)

[zephyrnoid]

128K via Steve Frankle of the Assessment Group. My first impression?
"Huh! That'll never take off! Too easy to use" :D

[Iceclaw]

When I was in like 1st grade my mom bought a blue Color iMac. That was the first Mac I saw.

It still sits across from the Macbook Pro we use now even today.

-Iceclaw:apple:

[michaellynn]

MacBook Pro

[petermcphee]

24" iMac in signature.

[austinsevo]

my first was a Macintosh LC II then a Powermac 8500 then Powerbook 1400c and then a G3 laptop and then a G4 Mac.. and then many many years later a Quicksilver G4.

[wawanarchist]

Good ol' Powerbook G4... I sold it last month to raise money for a new iMac and I already miss it

[63dot]

Used PPC clone, Power Computing tower. Shortly after that, rev.a iBook.

[ste1164]

My first mac was an eMac i got from my school.

[Slrman]

The first Mac I used was a 512K "Fat Mac". The first one I owned for myself was a 1MB SE with a 20 MB hard drive. I quickly upgraded it to 4 MB of RAM and a 40 MB expertnal drive for a huge performance boost. Of course, those numbers seem ludicrous today, but in 1989-90, they were a revolution.

[LordOfTheMacs]

iMac G5 ambient light sensor (17 inch,512,160). Bought it off eBay for 590$ in March 2008.Second is iBook clamshell 366 indigo

[macmee]

I just bought my first a month ago. 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo 20" iMac.

[TinyHulk]

My first Apple computer is the one in my signature ;)

[leishan]

My first Apple was a G4 Sawtooth. It is still going strong!

[Fonzijr1964]

When I was in like 1st grade my mom bought a blue Color iMac. That was the first Mac I saw.

It still sits across from the Macbook Pro we use now even today.

-Iceclaw:apple:

i was prolly in 4th grade when that came out an teachers started to get them.

The first mac i used was a Powermac all in one

[Str8edgepunker]

My PowerBook G4 Titanium.

[Elbert C]

Oct. 2005 rev 15" AlPB G4.
My son won an old Mac , his first computer, from his school for perfect attendance a couple years ago. I forgot which model it was but it had OS 7 installed. Now the school is giving away 2.4 Ghz White Macbooks for perfect attendance to one student via a drawing.

[numbersyx]

Performa 1993 - followed by a PowerMac in 1994....

[Nature1953]

Mine was a Mac 11 CX. I still have it.

At work I was using the original "Plus".

[zen.state]

PowerBook 540c with a PowerPC 603e 117MHz upgrade. This was in 1998 when I switched from wintel to mac.

[heavymetal4god]

Mine was a Performa 6400/180 from Circuit City. We got the thing when I was 6 and I still remember this?:confused:

[Freshmixture]

2008 MacBook Pro....2.4 ghz

I came across the keynote speech on Oct 17th for these new laptops and bought one the next day.

WOW.....what a machine.

Hey....I'm a little late to the patry but ya gotta start somewhere...;)

[TheEpicFilmCo]

The iMac I got a month ago.

[UltraNEO*]

I'd say, I'm one of the old school Macusers...
Macintosh SE/30 still have original box and System Disks.

Now contains awesomely huge 40MB HD that's about four times
faster than the floppy, it's populated with 4Mb RAM!!! :D



OK...
but that was a lot of space and memory back then! :rolleyes:

[hvs]

It was an Mac SE - dual floppy. Loved that computer

[Haemorrage]

It was the original "Bondi Blue" iMac G3. It still had the stock standard specs from its release in 1998. I bought it used from a friend back in 2003 for $50. It was a good little machine and managed to run Mac OS X 10.1 quite well. I must say that little iMac did start my love affair with mac :)

[millerj123]

Grayscale Powerbook 5300 in 1995. I think it still works.

[spaceballl]

iBook G3 - bought it for iLife and OS X - was hooked!

[Macbeezle]

G3 Desktop. Those things are huge... I still have it and it's operational still!

[mcb13]

Performa 6115 1995

[maximoo]

I got one of these on sale for $800 in 1996. Still works.

[angemon89]

MacBook 2.2GHz (right when Leopard came out)

[MyTwistedSister]

My first AND LAST Apple Computer is a 19 inch IMAC.

Its a lemon and Apple has been totally unresponsive.

They have my money and I have a pile of junk.

[trekster]

Blue iMac. I returned it after a few days. Apple was a joke back in the 90's.

[Old Muley]

My first Apple was an Apple IIc- with the tiny monochrome black/green monitor. The first Mac I ever owned was an original LC. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I switched from the IIc to the LC!

[Shawn D]

iBook 600mhz with 384mb of ram, :D I upgraded to the 800mhz model and still use one today for watching movies and surfing the net, Great little machines.

[JackSYi]

15" PowerBook (2004).

[mgsfan18]

Imac 2.66 GHz intel core 2 duo Processor with mac os x 10.5.



The first mac I owned is the one I have now. But I have used macs my whole life in school. So once I finished school I needed to buy one myself. :apple:

[Melodic]

my first mac was powerbook G3 wallstreet 233 MHz. But my love affair with macs didn't start until I got PowerBook G4 550 titanium. I haven't looked back since

[CaptMurdock]

Mac Classic was the first one I owned.

But I had worked on Pluses and early Mac II's for years before that.

[Alan Taylor]

G4 Mac Mini - got it just after the Intel switch so it was cheap, and it was the best desktop I ever owned!

[JammySTB]

I've never actually owned one... I use my dad's old ones.

The first I used was the old Mac Classic :D

[hexagon]

Apple II+. Remember playing Sabotage on it.