Poll:First Apple computer that you owned?

[jeremycrook]

I was all ways against Apple Mac till about a year ago when a mate got me to use his.

Now I have seen the light and love the Mac and hate PC's.

I ended up starting out with a macbook air which was great, Now I have a macbook pro, Imac and Iphone.

[jfox8]

Beige Powermac G3 w/G4 upgrade. Good times...

[camboy1999]

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

A macbook air! its great i love macs so much more than PCs :apple: and i will never buy a a PC agin !hahahaha but their so freekin expensive! the macbook air onl has 1 usb port and an external disk drive so i would not suggest it if you are going to be using the disk drive all of the time. and with the one usb i just bought a hub for 20 bucks no big deal but oveer all it is incredibly thin!::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::ap ple::apple::apple::apple::apple::apple::)

[4FalconAF]

I ordered the iMac and the MBP you can see in my signature at the same time half a year ago after a life of Windows frustration. Best move ever!

[iPhilPHX]

My current 2-year old iMac is my first. Couldn't be happier.

[OGDaniel]

The first and only one i've owned is my intel iMac.

[Fireman451]

I just purchased my first Mac as a Christmas gift to myself.

I've been thinking of buying a Mac for a few years but just never pulled the trigger until now.

The last time I used a Mac was my freshman year in college in the English Dept. computer lab (1988). Since then, I've always owned or used Windows based machines (home and work).

I still have a PC (XP Pro) which my kids use and my wife has a laptop running Vista, but I made the decision to buy and use a Mac. If it works out well, it won't be my last and may buy an iMac for the house when the PC needs to be replaced.

[fin1211]

Haha Macbook Pro 13"

[rev316]

Performa FTW!

[mmomega]

typing on my 1st self owned mac now.

researched and waited and waited and my g/f finally decided she loved me enough to drop $2000+ on this one for an early christmas present :D

15" MBP w/ all the bells 'n whistles 'cept for SSD which will just be added once the prices drop.

So far so good, absolutely loving it.

[apunkrockmonk]

Se/30 8mb/80mb/7.1

[scottness]

se/30. I forget the specs. Been sold on macs ever since.

[Mr. McMac]

An eMac back in 2002.

[melchior]

powerbook lombard. a beautiful piece of engineering. i still prefer the style to the aluminium of the current MBPs i bought it run yellowdog linux. which i did happily until the ibook dual usb and the os x 10.0 public beta.

[bludodge]

Last year I was given a hand me down G4 laptop. After getting the iPhone first, I was sold on trying the laptop, which sealed my fate. Since have bought 1st NEW mac...a mini and an AppleTV.

[gertruded]

First Apple was a Apple II+, 45k ram, B&W monitor. It still works!

Now: Mini, 1.66 core duo, 2007 Imac 2.0 core 2 duo, early 2009 Macbook.

[thesmall]

got an ibook 800mhz... its really good and efficient.. i wonder if anyone elsehave this one to... :rolleyes:

[Surely]

My first was an Apple IIe.

Ah, 1983.

[RawBert]

My first was the iMac G4 17" 1Ghz in 2003. I still use it. I was a pc jerk before then. I only bought it because it looked so nice. I had no idea that my life would be forever changed for the better.

:D:apple:

[Paul B]

Wow, lots of OGs in here.

My first Mac was the 1st gen 15" MBP.

[steveca]

my first mac was an ibook 700 mhz 12" version

[DeeGee48]

I first became aware of Apple in the Apple II days in the late 70's. I was looking at a lot of brands of this new "hobby" machine back then (DEC Rainbow, etc). But I wasn't impressed with command line interfaces, so I didn't buy anything for several years. Then along came the Apple Lisa in 1983 with the Xerox PARC GUI. Wow! But at 10 grand I couldn't touch it!

SuperBowl 1984 and the "Big Brother" Mac commercial. Then it was revealed. Now, THIS was more like it! So I waited for the second model and in the fall of 1984 I bought my first MAC, the MAC 512K or "Fat Mac". So glad I did! As a result, I've never been to the 'dark side'---no need to!

[Rockford]

I bought an Apple IIc in 1981 or 82. (128K)
Commodore 64 was the other computer out there.
Salesman told me, "128 K is all you'll EVER need."
I laughed then.... to this day whenever a member of my family hears some bogus pitch someone will say "128 K is all you'll EVER need." :D

[bzollinger]

1st generation mac mini, upgraded it to 1GB RAM from 512MB. I loved it so I sold it and bought a G5 dual 2.0 PPC. Now I'd like to step up to a new Mac Pro after the 2010 update!

[cocktailmunky]

Powerbook G4 17" 1.5ghz Laptop

and it was then I fell in love with all things Apple/Mac

[eggnogg]

iBook G4 1GHz 14"

$250

and there was only one thing wrong with it, it doesnt charge

please see if you can help me with that.

thanks

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=9177869#post9177869

[nadav123]

My first mac was a PowerMacintosh 7300/200
With a 500MB HD. :D

[TheTosh]

iBook G4, Worst mac ever. A Big, Slow, Ugly brick.
Then MacBook Pro... Also one of the worst macs.

Also how do you now say a group of iBooks? You could be saying that you have 5 iBooks when you mean books on iBooks or you could be saying you have 5 iBook Computers?

:)

[Troy2000]

iMac 20" G5

[gskidmark]

PowerMac 6100AV, 60MHz, 16MB RAM, 500MB HD

Later upgraded to 24MB baby!

The AV had a NuBus AV card so you could pipe video out of it. Never used it even once.

[spencers]

I honestly don't remember exactly... The earliest I remember is a Macintosh Centris of sorts. Might have a Mac Classic thrown in there before that.

[StarTzar]

I finally decided to get rid of my PC and I am desperately trying to take ownership of a Yellow free screen iMac 21.5 Basic. I just can't wait to get my hands on one that works properly so I can make it my own.

[Mini Me]

Mac Mini for me, late last year, it was the cheapest way to get in "to the fold" really.

Never looked back since :)

[boldfire]

Second hand MacBook Pro (1st gen), then when I started University I got a Sony Vaio, but then realised how much I missed OS X and sold that for a 13" Aluminium MacBook and it's still running great :)

[smc333]

I bought a used iMac G3/333/192/15GB about 3 years ago to play with.

Now I own a current low-end 15" Macbook Pro and love it.

[appleseed76]

The first Macs I used was an Apple II, I think. It was a little thing with a black and white screen. I used to love playing with MacDraw. These were so
e kind of hand me down computers I used in high school.

It took me many more years to afford my first Mac, but I bought one of the first iBooks when they came out. I remember everyone hating on it saying it looked like a giant Chiclet, but I was in love. Later I bought another iBook when I lived in Japan complete with Japanese keyboard. I still use it to this day despite it being over 6 years old. I bought an iMac 3 years ago, but recently sold it to my Dad when his PC crashed and burned.

Truth be told I need to upgrade. I'm just a little bummed that the iPad isn't a stand alone device. Apple please make a pro version in the near future.

[extrafuzzyllama]

my first apple computer was a 17" Intel iMac (late 2006) model
and still using it but it seems to be dieing on me :(

[iMacThere4Iam]

I bought the original Bondi Blue iMac at Sears (Sears!). It was my first computer, and true to the commercials, ten minutes out of the box and I was on the internet with AOL dial-up.

[tokyoracer]

Not that long ago, a PowerMac 6100/060 PowerPC. :)

[Andrey_C]

I switched to Mac not that long ago, in 2005. I started with MacMini, then I got myself MacBook, and now I owe MacBook Pro 17".

[AdamA9]

21.5" iMac - a week or so old, well actually it's my second as the first one lasted 2 days before I needed it replaced :)

[yoppie]

First generation MacBook (black). I purchased it July 2006.

[pit29]

A PowerPC 7200. Was it called that way? 1995, I guess.

However, I got a grey special edition iBook thereafter :-)

[chivas]

macbook unibody 13.3" 2.4Ghz.. was bought on beg 2009, and currently regret after the macbook recently changed to pro.. :mad: anyway mac is still the best.. probrably will buy macbook pro this year..:cool:

[RPJones]

Mac ll FX in 1990. With a 13"(!) rgb Mac monitor, Lazerwriter NTX, 4 bit Apple One Scanner. OS 6.0.5.

Now an early '08 Mac Pro. In between a beige G3 tower (9600?), dual 500 G4 giga-ethernet, MBP core duo 2.16.

[jwhite4304]

The dual floppy Mac that was called portable :rolleyes:

[jacktabby]

Late 2008 13 inch White Macbook.

[scottness]

Se/30

[OutSpoken]

eMac....bought secondhand summer 2003, which only gave me LOTS of problems, so got rid of it as it was too expensive to repair:mad:

I vowed I would never buy secondhand/out of warranty computers again...especially Apple products.

Then a year later, bought brandnew the iMac G4, which kept relatively healthy for six years before I sold it summer 2009 for the 13" uMBP.

[yamabushi]

First one I used was an Apple II and then used many others for many years including Macs before I finally owned an SE/30. My second one was a Powerbook 145B.

[DELINDA]

A G4 desktop still going bought 5 years ago . To bad we can't put SL into it .

[Marilia]

Mac IIsi

[macgeek18]

300Mhz Blueberry iBook,160MB,3.2GB HD,9.2.2

[NIPRING]

Brand new factory ordered 1.42 mini with every option except wifi (which i should have just gotten as well. $1000 and i've never looked back ;)

[Lithium.]

Macbook Pro 2.5Ghz

[scyon]

Apple IIc. :3

[ermir4444]

Entry level MacBook Pro 13" 2.26 Ghz 160 HDD NVidia 9400m

[chrisworld]

Late 2006 iMac - 20 Inch

[vukasin]

Blackbook.

[Psychild]

Believe it was 1995-96 I ordered the Top of the line Power Computing - Apple Clone as my first computer. I had been studying Apple via magazines and reviews for some years. Power Computing had the top reviews of all PC
s at the time. It was a super nice rig for the time. At that time Apple was kinda in Limbo - So I dropped about 8 thousand bucks for the Power Computing rig. running Mac OS 7.5 I believe. Spent thousands on software - Photoshop 4 .... Bryce 1 ...etc. Not even a year after I had the Power Computing - Steve Jobs came back and sent a notice that their would be no more support of the clones. Blew me away - Super Bummer. - After I sold it for a few grand I bought a Power Book - then on to Power Macs and iMacs ...... etc.

[chuanist]

Psychild beat me to it: my first Motorola 604e powered computer was a Power Computing clone running Mac OS 8. (Before that I was an Amiga user.)

[BranB]

The Macbook Air when it first came out and before someone stole it.

(The computer that started my love for Apple) :)

[H00513R]

Apple IIe for me followed closely by a Franklin Computer clone.

[jaysinnva]

12" PowerBook G4 w/ SuperDrive, loved it!

[melchior]

Smoking volcanoes, ancient Mayan ruins, a jungle teeming with wildlife, the colonial city of Antigua; its wonder why Guatemala is still overlooked by so many (and we like it that way). Our guided tours through Guatemala include visits to the ruins of Tikal, jungle hikes through the beautiful Peten region, visits to the picture perfect mountain towns, and all the adventure activities you can handle. Come experience the adventures in Guatemala with us this season!

you're right, guatamala was the best mac. you'd throw back a little peyote, vomit everywhere and let the good times roll. jobs knew he was onto a good thing there :apple:

[alongcamejones]

Apple II, then a IIe, a Mac II, MacIIx, Mac II cx, 7200, G4 Sawtooth, Ibook, MacMini,MacPro 2008, and now an iPad. I've been a good customer! I think I should have bought fewer machines and more stock, no?

[mmfphotodude]

a 300mhz iBook G3 Blueberry 3.2gb HD 288mb Ram

and at the same time see my sig, that also, got them at the same time... but broke down and only fixed recently with another i got in a trade.

Morgan

[d1nerladyman]

2nd hand i mac
donno its hardrie but it was slow
saving up for the 27" imac now :)

[Jamekae]

iMac late 2006 20 inch, ready for an upgrade!

[AV8TOR]

Better late than never - 2010 iMac ;)

[BigTroll]

Macintosh LC

[Lakeland*won]

G4 ibook. Loved it 2005

[GaxMacMan]

Mac Plus w/ authographed aluminum insulation plate inside, Mac II ci; Max II FX; Pac LC 580; Powerbook 145b. Still have the Mac Plus; Mac II ci and the Powerbook 145b; and my latest, the iBook 800 mhz I am posting this with.

[andypullen]

It was a beautiful beige Mac Plus... the printer was really cool, too.

[geoffism]

My first shot was a IIe. Almost 25 years ago.

[zappster]

Mac Performa 5200.

[AnonMac50]

Macintosh SE FDHD is my first (1989).

[js81]

Blue&White PowerMac G3 here. All blazing 300MHz and 128MB of RAM of it! :D

[citizenzen]

IIci

That, a 14-inch monitor, a laCie scanner and a 44mb Syquest drive set me back $7,000.

The good-old days weren't always so good.

[macfan881]

IIGS ftw :)

[DesmoPilot]

Indigo-Blue iMac G3/500.

[Coldmode]

2.8 GHz MacBook Pro 15" (mid 2009).

I spent 13 months deciding if I really wanted to switch to a Mac. I eventually decided in the affirmative and my Mac is now my favorite possession and constant companion.

[kazmac]

mid 90s, Power PC. Don't remember anything else except I've been an Apple computer fan ever since.

[ss957916]

a 2009 MacBook Pro was my first and will be my last Mac. It cost me 5x more than a PC and is just as buggy and badly made. I've had it enirely replaced, had my keyboard replaced, had a new HDD and a new Airport card in less than a year.

Once we've moved house and settled in, I'll be moving back to Windows.

[col sandurz]

My first Mac is actually the one that I am typing on right now. It is a 1.07 Ghz G4 iBook. I got it in early 2004. Lasted me 6 years, and I still find that it is more than adequate for surfing and basic applications. Gotta love that! The only upgrades I've done are 160 GB hdd and upped ram to 1.25 GB. I love it and am likely to buy a MacBook Pro soon because we now need 2 computers (Funny, there is a PC in my office that never gets used :) )

[greg400]

Indigo iBook G3.

[MBPro825]

My Macbook Pro 2.26

(My Grandparents have had an Imac for about 6-7 years though)

[sparkomatic]

First one was an Apple IIc. Loved it! I've actually been thinking about picking on up on eBay for kicks.

[jcohen9229]

Apple II original but the first computer that is in memory that i worked on was an Apple II GS and its still on my desk today
I found out about the original Apple II from my parents apparently hoped on it when i was very little which is weird that i did since i was born in 92

[thbugman]

II gs

[Mr. McMac]

A 2002 eMac with a 700 mhz processor, 256 mb of ram, and a 40 gig hard drive.

[mike.coulter]

It was only two years ago I bought my first. It cost me £90 and is an iMac G4 700MHz. I'm currently reformatting it so that it can just be used to the internet. I do love the little thing.

[max¥¥]

bottom of the range 1.25Ghz mac mini g4:D, i have upgraded the ram to 1gb and the hdd to 120gb , still my favourite mac, i have always been a mac fan as my dad always has macs

[Prolanman]

13" Mid 2009 MBP 2.53 Ghz, 4 GB RAM, 250GB HD w/ 24" Cinema Display, BT Keyboard and Mouse.

[Derkatwork]

My girlfriend's family has about 40 mac products including a couple 3GS's. Switching from a Dell was the best (technology) decision ever!

[Kingcodez]

Black MacBook 2.4GHz.. Still have it it runs like a champ.

[Blue Fox]

1 - Apple Macintosh (before the 128k designation was added)
2 - 16 Mhz PowerBook 140
3 - Mac Mini 1.4 GHz - G4
4 - 20" iMac 2.0 GHz - Intel
5 - Black MacBook 2.4 - Intel
6 - 24" iMac 2.8 GHz - Intel

[uhohzitzcooky]

iBook G4 12" 1.2GHz w/ combo drive in late '04.

Sold the thing 3 years later for about $400 and invested in a Mini C2D 1.83GHz.

Sold that a year ago after discovering Hackintoshing.

Now I'm sitting with a Dell Studio 14z Hackintosh w/ 10.6.2 and it runs great.

[Kimba]

It was a late 2007 MacBook (http://support.apple.com/kb/sp12) I bought in January 2008, which is listed in my sig.:( It was my ninth computer since my first, which was a Commodore 64 I bought in June 1983. My tenth will be a base 13" MacBook, which, hopefully (http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/New-Apple-MacBook-Pro-13Inchers-Already-Selling-Out-442566/), I'll get this weekend.:)

[roadbloc]

Late 2008 MacBook. I'm very pleased with it, and if Apple keep OS X and hardware quality up, I may by another MacBook when it dies.

[ValkyrieLenneth]

A powerbook G4...

[7031]

Mine was a G4 Mac Mini at 1.5Ghz (the stealth upgrade).

After that, an iMac Core 2 Duo at 2.16Ghz. After that, a Macbook Pro (which died), and after that, another iMac.

[jCrabb13]

blue g3 imac. im a youngin!

[Renderz]

2007 Macbook Pro. I'm still using it. Works like a dream. Shame it's limited to only 3Gb of ram though...silly Apple :-)

[mickbab]

12" iBook G3. My grandad passed it down to me when I was 13, shortly before he passed away.

Now rockin' a 15" uMBP. Very nice.

[mcmlxix]

...or that is a monochrome Mac Classic II. Egads, I paid $2000 for that thing as a student with no expendable income.

[smelly cat]

G3 iMac!

[Archon Gold]

First Mac I ever used: Macintosh Performa (dunno the model number) back in SK

First Mac Owned: MacBook, 2007 model (POS)

First Mac ever bought by myself: 12" PowerBook G4

[santaliqueur]

IIgs. No hard drive, 1MHz/2.8MHz selectable clock speed. 3.5 and 5.25" drives. Still works.

[ShaneRounce]

I had one of these beasts when I was 6-7.
But it got stolen. :(
Funny thing is, after having this stolen, I didn't have a Computer for about 6 years when I got a PC. :/

http://www.kevinomura.com/macs/630/630front.JPG

[j3yq]

white Macbook,(2007)

[Mad Mental Jock]

Brand new MBP 15 i5 2.4 delivered to work today !!

It's still in the box and I am still stuck at work :(

[H00513R]

Nice applecomparty...

[Mirabella]

The original Mac, in 1984, though I use to use my friend's Apple II a lot, before that.

[sonofmof]

eMac G4 1.25

Just before they were discontinued.

[shadow25]

I had a powerbook G4 that I got for helping someone install a program on their mac. It needed a new logic board, so I just sold it on CL.

[GuntherS]

My first Apple computer was a 17" white Intel iMac (2006). Switching to Mac was the best thing I've ever done! Now I have a 13" MacBook Pro (late 2009) and I gave the iMac to my dad. It was also his first Mac after all those years with a PC. After a few hours playing with it, he said: "It works so easy. Everything works so much faster than the PC (with even better specs)." Another happy Mac-user! ;)

[davidp158]

My wife got a job at an Apple store, and bought a SE30 with the employee discount. We splurged an got TWO floppy drives and a TWENTY MEGABYTE hard drive!

[ReallyOldGuy]

I left the dark side 379 days ago. My HP "20 core, zillion GB ram, liquid cooled" super pizaz PC crashed three times in 20 minutes. I remained calm, hooked up the external hard drive, backed up, disconnected everything and carefully placed the PC in the large trash can outside. I then walked next door and gave our neighbors son my Gateway Tablet, his sister got my wifes' Sony Viao. I got in the car and drove 40 miles to the Apple Store in Nashville. I had never touched a Mac/apple product. In about two hours I bought an iMac 24" (my first Mac), a Macbook Air, 13" Aluminum Macbook, time Capsule, Apple TV, two iPhones and a Mac for dummies book. Since then 2 3GS phones, a wifi iPad, and tomorrow the 3G iPad arrives.

This is true and now I'll tell you why I was willing to spend the money. Those three crashes above occurred while I was working on a project for a client, a project with a penalty based deadline. That penalty cost me $4800. I have never regretted a dollar of what I spent that day (except the next month when the Amex bill came in).

[Hisdem]

The MBP I'm using right now. I'm NEVER going back to Windows for a primary computer again. But I will have to get a PC in the future, as I plan to be an engineer and AutoCAD still isn't available for OS X. But oh well, details :)

[ryan0402]

a 2010 imac i5 got it in the mail today its sweet