Members Under 16

[CompUser]

Hey,

Anyone under 16 years old here? I am just really bored right now.

I'm Erik, I'm 15, I live in Connecticut.

I have a 12" 1.5ghz superdrive powerbook with 768mb RAM. At home I have a 21" Viewsonic CRT. I also have my 3 year old Dell 4550 P4 Desktop with 15" Dell LCD.

I guess I'm just trying to make conversation here lol.

~Erik

[doucy2]

random
im 16
live in Ohio (its cold here)
i have like 6 mac and tons of Sh** for parts and accessories (everyone should buy it check my sig)

EDIT: ohh yea my name is Alex

[Xephian]

I've seen plenty of members here at MacRumors who are under the age of 16.

[doucy2]

I've seen plenty of members here at MacRumors who are under the age of 16.
i have 5 or 6 friends on here that a talk to on a consistant basism which are all under 16 and members here

[Sun Baked]

I'm over 21, but threads that start out with "I am just really bored right now." last about as long as an unprotected bottle of cold beer at a frat house on Saturday night. ;)

[maestro55]

It wasn't long that I was under 16, I am 17 now.

[2nyRiggz]

i was 16.............nine years ago.


Bless

[Patmian212]

My name is Federico.
I am 16, 17 in april. I am italian but lived in NY for 11 years, now I live in madrid. I love macs, gaming, hip hop and women. I am overwheight:D and almost an utter failure in school. I basically live on MR(I'm sad I know)

[CompUser]

I'm about 5'10 and around 150 lbs.

I am an Honors student.

[w_parietti22]

Im Wes. Im 14. I live in Seattle, WA. and im bored too.

I have a 12" iBook G4 800mhz and I'm saving up for a 15" PB

AIM: wparietti22

edit- oh... and I'll be 15 in May. :-)

edit 2- Email removed.

[Plymouthbreezer]

Hola, I'm Ryan.

I'm 15 currently, I'll be 16 in January. I'm a sophomore, soon to be Eagle Scout, and member of waaay too many organizations/clubs to name. Here's my MySpace, http://www.myspace.com/plymouthbreezer . My AIM SN is Plymouthbreezer. :)

[Daveway]

Hi, I'm David I was 16 two weeks ago......
I am also incredibly bored for a Saturday night.

[amacgenius]

15 years old, live near Buffalo, NY and I'm 5' 11" :P.

[runninmac]

Well I guess since alot of people seem to be making a acception to 16 year-olds i guess ill join.

Name: Paul
Location: Rockford MI (its colder here)
Bordom Level: Not to extreem I just got done with work so now im relaxing on my:
Computer: Brand New iBook G4 12 inch (stock)

Wow this would be really easy for someone to stalk peole.

[Sun Baked]

Wow this would be really easy for someone to stalk peole.Yes it would ... :(

Try to keep e-mail addresses out of your posts, keep that info in your profile if you want or have people ask for it via PM.

Remember some of the spam bots do strip MR every now and then, so you could end up with a bunch of spam.

[CompUser]

Yea, you could really spam people and stalk people with this.

Just curiosity I guess. I didn't realize there were that many here.

[pknz]

Im 16, although the title did say Members Under 16, so I guess I'm not included. Is that age discrimination?

[greatdevourer]

EDIT: Oops, sorry. Wrong thread

Well, I'm 14, although I've been mistaken for a 16yr old many a time (sometimes works in my favour, sometimes against)

[Scruge]

Hi, I'm David I was 16 two weeks ago......
I am also incredibly bored for a Saturday night.
wow my name is david and i turned 16 on the 6th this month

[Flying Llama]

I'm 10 - Don't tell anyone...

I KID I KID!!!

:eek:

[amholl]

Im Adam, 14
Ya, not bored @ all actually,(family guy is the man)
From Newton, MA
NNHS
iBook 12 1.2 GHz stock except 768 RAM
Peace

[G5Unit]

If flying lama is lying then i guess I am the yougest here. I am 13. Please dont come to my house and rape me, or kill me, or rob me, or do anything that my parents would say I shouldn't have posted my age on the internet.
A KID!

[cslewis]

14 from Pennsylvania. 15 in January.

It's procrastination as usual.

iBook G4, 1.07 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB HD.

All honors classes at KAHS.

[ryannel2003]

I'm Ryan, and I'm 15 years old. Live in North Carolina.

My computer is an eMac 1.25GHz G4 Combo, 768MB DDR RAM, 40GB 5400RPM Maxtor HD, and Tilt and Swivel Stand. I also have a HP Pavilion ze4427wm running Windows XP Retard Edition! :p
I also have a Bondi iMac that sits in my closet. Hopefully I can upgrade it for my brother to use! :)

I'll turn 16 in February.

[maestro55]

I find it very interesting to see this yonger generation of mac users. We are going to be the ones who keep Apple going by buying their products. For those of us who are going into the technology world we will be the ones who innovate and continue to advance in computing. I know I am new here, but I would have never guessed this many people around my age or younger who used macs.

[betty02]

hello im also board, im 16....17 in June i live in Blackpool UK, im getting a iBook G4 for xmas, then MAYBE a powermac G5 and an xserve (brought by my dad lol)

Im an IT Technician at my old school i left in may, i work there tuesday to friday 9am GMT to 4pm GMT, i go to collage 9am GMT tp 9pm GMT on mondays doing a cisco networking acadam course

[kainjow]

hello im also board, im 16....17 in June i live in Blackpool UK, im getting a iBook G4 for xmas, then MAYBE a powermac G5 and an xserve (brought by my dad lol)

Im an IT Technician at my old school i left in may, i work there tuesday to friday 9am GMT to 4pm GMT, i go to collage 9am GMT tp 9pm GMT on mondays doing a cisco networking acadam course
Man, you're set for life. Networking administration is the job to have for the future....

[Plymouthbreezer]

hello im also board, im 16....17 in June i live in Blackpool UK, im getting a iBook G4 for xmas, then MAYBE a powermac G5 and an xserve (brought by my dad lol)

Im an IT Technician at my old school i left in may, i work there tuesday to friday 9am GMT to 4pm GMT, i go to collage 9am GMT tp 9pm GMT on mondays doing a cisco networking acadam course
Very nice indeed!

[corywoolf]

I'm 9 yrs. old.




(ok, I lie)


:p

[SurfinSHELL23]

I'm 15, a sophomore in high school in NJ. All classes in my school are Honors or AP. It's a pre-engineering career academy. Lots of work.


My favorite subjects are math (currently Algebra 2/ Trig), science (Physics - though this is my least favorite), and my engineering courses (Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Principles of Engineering).

Oh and I have a Mini, plus tons of PCs.

-Brian

[CoMpX]

My name is Joe, I'm 15, and I'm a freshman at AE in NJ. I have a Mac mini and an iBook G4. Look at the sig.;)

[Aarow]

I'm 13, and I like to take long walks on the beach.

I kid!! I hate beaches. They're so...sandy:cool:

[davefan6435]

well im 16 and I live in madison wisconsin. Ive got a mac mini and I lead a pretty boring life except when my dad likes to be like red from that 70's show and threatens to put his foot up my a**! It's really fun times.

[CompUser]

well im 16 and I live in madison wisconsin. Ive got a mac mini and I lead a pretty boring life except when my dad likes to be like red from that 70's show and threatens to put his foot up my a**! It's really fun times.

sounds...fun lol

My dad works 1.5 hours away and is never home lol.

If anyone wants to chat my AIM is ErikCT060

[haiggy]

I'm 16... turning 17 in January.
I joined these forums when I was about 14 I believe...
I'm from Ontario, Canada.
I've got an iBook G4 (see sig)
I'm 6'4" and 170lbs.
I play volleyball for my Sr. Boy's school team and am the captain for the regional team.
I am mistaken for 18 or 19 by everybody. Sometimes 20 and up. ;)

[_Matt]

Matt
15 - January Birthday
15" PowerBook G4
NJ
High School Sophomore - all honors or AP
I enjoy acting, playwrighting, filmmaking, and macs of course.
I would like to go to either Princeton, Vassar, Columbia, Yale, or NYU.
It's nice to see there are teenagers like me using macs. :D
So, since we're all taking rather advanced courses, is anyone feeling the pressure lately? I am. :(

[betty02]

Man, you're set for life. Networking administration is the job to have for the future....

Very nice indeed!

Thanks guys, well ive worked hard to get this job, but yeah i hope to be set for life, and Cisco pay mega bucks lol, so if i become a Cisco vertified Networking Technician then WOW, but i love ti here so im not fusssed either way.

[Plymouthbreezer]

...So, since we're all taking rather advanced courses, is anyone feeling the pressure lately? I am. :(
Yes.

Actually, my only really bad grade is in Spanish 3 Honors. The part where the teacher is Albanian (really hard to understand her in English) doesn't help either.

I'll be taking a full AP load next year - AP Physics, AP U.S. History, A.P. English, and AP Art. Not to worry, the AP Physics teacher is my track coach (he gives extra points to his track team!), the AP Art is pretty much doing whatever you want, and the AP English teacher is awesome, but gives lots of essays (which are easy for me to BS through).

Dropping Spanish next year, and taking Latin for my last two years. Easy 100. Also, I'll probably take "Computer Repair," a "class" the principal created for my friend and currently has one member. The "class" basically consists of setting up and fixing the schools terrible system, on days when you feel like it. Plus, it's a full credit. :)

[20rogersc]

I'm 16, 17 in Feb. :cool:
But apparantly my 14 year old brother looks older than me :o

::20ROGERSC::

[CompUser]

I'm feeling the pressure too. Very tired too.

Schedule:
- Honors Science- really hard teacher
- Honors English
- Graphic Design 1 (don't get my started with that class)
- Study Hall
- Honors Geometry (Our schools have Algebra 2 in 10th Grade)
- Applied Electronics I
- 4th Lunch (except on an odd double period day when I have it 2nd)
- Honors World Civ.
- Spanish 2, nice teacher but can't teach at all

(no AP courses until jr. year at my school)

[Patmian212]

I am taking the IB and I am not doing well at ALL grades are out of 7

English A1 High-5
Spanish A2 High-4
Economics High-4
History Standard-3
Biology Standard-4
Math Studies Standard-1 I AM HORRIBLE AT MATHS, I currently am achieving a 2
IT(elective)-7 I got my ECDL already
I have 21 point and I need 24, I jsut cant seem to stop procrastinating, its not that I am dumb but I just never do homework.

[zach]

I'm Erik, I'm 15, I live in Connecticut.


I live in CT too :D

I'm actually not under 16 now, but I was a little more than a month ago.

<edit: courses, eh?>

i'm a junior.

lets see now..

British Fiction Honors
Study Hall
AP US History
Lunch & Electronic Music (just messing around with Reason mostly) on Tuesdays and Thursdays
PreCalculus Honors --> AP BC Calculus in senior year, we do calculus second semester of this year too
Spanish IV
Physics Honors (greatest. class. ever.)

[realityisterror]

15. Outside of Atlanta, GA. Sophomore. Latest 15" PowerBook.
Taking AP World History, Honors English, Gifted Alg II, Orchestra, Gifted Chemistry, and Spanish I.
If you're seriously interested in my height and weight, feel free to ask :p

AIM: realityisterror


reality

[macmaniacttt]

well, here goes nothing:

12 years old
live in new york
7th grade student
obsessed with technology - especially macs (though not so much that it completely takes over my life)
enjoy soccer, skiing, hanging out with family and friends, reading, writing
12" powerbook 1.33ghz 768MB 60gb 10.4.3 + Quicksilver (quicksilver.blacktree.com) + iPod 3G 20G

[_Matt]

To answer my own question:

I am insanely stressed this year.

U.S. History I Honors (B+)
English 2 Honors (A)
Spanish 3 Honors(A)
Chemistry I Honors (B-, I bombed a test.)
Computer Science AP(B-, I bombed a test and I waltzed right into this class without knowing anything about JAVA.)
Algebra 2 (A-)

My group of friends includes the brightest students in my class with some of them reaching 5.1 GPAs. I am falling behind with a 4.2 GPA. :mad:

I have to ace all my classes this year in order to even smell Top 10. :(

[crazysaxchris]

I'm 13 and an Honor Student :o :D



I love tech, but still involved in sports, scuh as tennis and soccer. TENNIS RULES THE BEST SPORT EVER ! I have a 3.97 grade point average. School is the best for me, Boy do I love it. Our school as g3 imacs in like 4 of their labs I would say about 200 of them, then like 30 powerpc g3's, then about 100 new dells with 21" flat screen. My school has olny like 600 people in it !

[Plymouthbreezer]

My grades:

Chemistry Honors - 88
Spanish III Honors - 78
Word History II Honors - 99
Gym - 96
English II Honors - 100
Art 2 Magnet (better then honors, but not AP) - 96
Advanced Algebra Honors - 84

Not great for me. Until last year, I always got straight A's. I think I've just become too overloaded these days with other activities:
• Flute Lessons
• Robotics Team (co-captain)
• Varsity Track (three seasons worth - XC, indoor, outdoor)
• Student Council
• Class officer (secretary)
• Principal's Advisory Committee (also the secretary for that)
• Superintendent's Advisory Committee
• state trained Youth Peer Mediator
• Fine Arts Design Chairperson for my school
• Youth member on the Curriculum Review Board for the school district
• A/V Club - I make school the school IDs
• the school's Improvement Association founder and chairman
• Boy Scout Troop Senior Patrol Leader
• Order of the Arrow (an offshoot of Boy Scouts) Lodge officer (Treasurer)

You could say I'm just a little busy. Amazingly, I still do decent grade wise considering all the other things I take on (and I still post on MR, read MySpace's, Xangas, webcomics, etc...). Out of a class of 420, I'm 29th. I'd like to be top 25, and I will be if I just get that darn spanish grade up to an 85.

[ryannel2003]

I can't believe all the people with Honors classes! My only Honors class is next semester. I feel really stupid with all these kids making straight A's. That has never happened to me before, but I have made plenty of A's and B's before. Not on last report card though. I'm embarrased to share those grades! :eek:

[maestro55]

I feel extra extra dumb. I am in ZERO honors courses, and I am an A, B, C, D student.. oh well.. I am just too lazy for my own good.

[ITASOR]

Interesting thread.

I'm 16. I'm not going to list my classes and my grades because who cares? My overall average thing was 95 and I do OK. I don't like school though. Yay.

[latergator116]

You guys are smart. My grade avergae for this quarter was a 62.5, which, needless to say, is pretty crappy.

[OutThere]

This gets you all nowhere, honestly.

Everyone crying about their grades and comparing them ultimately ends up with a bunch of kids running around with complexes about their grades. High school grades are not the end of the world (no matter how much people tell you that they are), and stressing over them will only ever make you do worse.

SO, I'd suggest, that for the good of the group everyone should stop sharing their averages and their grades.

For a frame of reference I'm 18 and a senior in high school, so I know where you all are coming from.:)

(I could also go off about my extra-curriculars, AP Classes, SAT scores and college applications, but really I don't think anyone would really care.) For those who are feeling bad about their grades: most likely, the people bragging about all of their averages are, on the whole, having a confidence issue with whether or not they stack up...being able to put your scores aside and understand that you've actually learned something fascinating and put it to a creative use is a much greater accomplishment than getting an A on a test.

For the record, if anyone who doesn't like typical math (Trig/Calc), Statistics is fascinating. Best course I've ever taken. :)

[Flying Llama]

Don't you have to agree that you're 13 or over to sign up with MacRumors? ;)

[Joel Ritmeyer]

15, in Australia. Hobbies: computers (macs of course), debating whether macs are better than PC's with my friend, im the only mac user in my class so its all onto me! but i still win!!!, Basketball, sociallising. Is anyone religious here? i am, im a Christadelphian. erm as far as shool goes, we dont have honor classes here just the normal ones!

edit: fixed spelling

[maestro55]

15, in Australia. Hobbies: computers (macs of course), debating whether macs are better than PC;s with my friend, im the only mac user in my class so its all onto me! but i still win!!!, Basketball, sociallising. I anyone religious here, i am, im a Chistadelphian? erm as far as shool goes, we dont have honor classes here just the normal ones!

The proper spelling is Christadelphians, no I am not one. Just wanted to let you know, and also comment on OutThere's post, the sad thing is that most kids are forced to make A's by their parents and they end up getting really stressed out.

[mikemodena]

I'm Mike... 16, Connecticut, drive an elantra, and make websites.

i also like wendy's. :D

[Joel Ritmeyer]

The proper spelling is Christadelphians, no I am not one. Just wanted to let you know, and also comment on OutThere's post, the sad thing is that most kids are forced to make A's by their parents and they end up getting really stressed out.

yeah sorry i was just going out and rushed it in a hurry

[EricNau]

Hey,

Anyone under 16 years old here? I am just really bored right now.

I'm Erik, I'm 15, I live in Connecticut.

I have a 12" 1.5ghz superdrive powerbook with 768mb RAM. At home I have a 21" Viewsonic CRT. I also have my 3 year old Dell 4550 P4 Desktop with 15" Dell LCD.

I guess I'm just trying to make conversation here lol.

~Erik

Hey, my name is Eric too, but I spell it differently.
Anyway, I'm 15, and will be 16 in march. I'm a Sophomore in High School in Northern CA.

I'm taking a CISCO class in my school, got the highest grade in my class last semester! But the sad part is my Cisco teacher doesn't consider Apple's real computers! :mad: :confused: And to make it worse, I'm the only Mac user in my class, so I have to defend it single handedly.

My Computers are in my sig. (the windows was given to me, had to pay for the Apple myself)

[EricNau]

You guys are smart. My grade avergae for this quarter was a 62.5, which, needless to say, is pretty crappy.

You need to resist the tempation of MacRumors, and spend more time studying!

[CompUser]

Hey, my name is Eric too, but I spell it differently.
Anyway, I'm 15, and will be 16 in march. I'm a Sophomore in High School in Northern CA.

I'm taking a CISCO class in my school, got the highest grade in my class last semester! But the sad part is my Cisco teacher doesn't consider Apple's real computers! :mad: :confused: And to make it worse, I'm the only Mac user in my class, so I have to defend it single handedly.

My Computers are in my sig. (the windows was given to me, had to pay for the Apple myself)

Hello Eric with a "c".

I'm taking electronics 1 and if I take electronics 2 I can be certified for microsoft networking or something like that.

My teacher is really cool, really smart, and really odd. He's a good teacher although his hatred of macs can be annoying. He looks at me and then makes a comment about them. I can usually can prove him wrong about what he says though :) :). I bet by the end of the school year I can get him to buy a mac.

That teacher I speak of above was talking about how the XBOX 360s were crashing. I raised my hand and said "thats what you get when you buy a product from microsoft :D :D :D".

There are no other Mac users in my grade that I know of. So I'm alone to but I've gotten people to want to switch. Some people are ignorant and technologically stupid and say "macs suck because they do".

My parents bought my Dell when I was in 6th grade. It was a really nice and fast computer in its day, P4 2.53Ghz, fastest was 2.8GHz but that cost a lot more. I paid for 1/3 of my powerbook back in february.

Right now my PB has to be fixed so I'm using my dell. :(

[maestro55]

Hello Eric with a "c".

My teacher is really cool, really smart, and really odd. He's a good teacher although his hatred of macs can be annoying. He looks at me and then makes a comment about them. I can usually can prove him wrong about what he says though :) :). I bet by the end of the school year I can get him to buy a mac.

That teacher I speak of above was talking about how the XBOX 360s were crashing. I raised my hand and said "thats what you get when you buy a product from microsoft :D :D :D".

There are no other Mac users in my grade that I know of. So I'm alone to but I've gotten people to want to switch. Some people are ignorant and technologically stupid and say "macs suck because they do".

Right now my PB has to be fixed so I'm using my dell. :(

The computer teacher at the school is in the Mac lab and it is fun to be able to talk to him about macs and stuch. He is really good at doing graphics and such, though even he admits that I am a much bigger nerd than he is. I don't think I have a forte yet with computers, and he knows much more about Mac than I do, but as for Linux, I know a lot more there than he does. We can share knowledge and he is a neat guy. I would rather by the end of the school year have him buying me a mac, as he recently purchased a 17inch Powerbook G4. And I can't afford one.

Today our Yearbook rep came and she was talking about how the programs speed depends on the speed of the computer, we have a lot of no tech people on the yearbook staff. Anyhow, kind of how you mentioned buying products from microsoft, I made a remark that the reason our Dells were being slow is that they were not PowerMac G5's. So we got into an interesting discussion after class about Macs with yearbook staffs, I thought they would be more common. She says differently. I suspect that is because most schools are switching to cheaper PC systems, namely Dell systems. I can't get through peoples heads that cheaper isn't better. We have had to have so maintance in our Dell lab.

So I feel sorry for you having to sit at a Dell. I don't mind sitting at my Linux box here, and infact I like it a lot. Though I would much rather be sitting at a Powerbook G4, too bad I can't convince my ex-yearbook advisor who bought her a Powerbook G4 last march, that she never uses Portable, do upgrade to a PowerMac G5 and give me the Powerbook, HA!

The downside of being a young nerd, you end up with not always the best equipment. Being a ham operate aswell I have spend a majority of my money with that hobby. So at this point I have computers, radios, my ipod and digital camera. But for all the money I spent I could have gotten a 15 inch Powerbook G4.. umm

[CompUser]

The computer teacher at the school is in the Mac lab and it is fun to be able to talk to him about macs and stuch. He is really good at doing graphics and such, though even he admits that I am a much bigger nerd than he is. I don't think I have a forte yet with computers, and he knows much more about Mac than I do, but as for Linux, I know a lot more there than he does. We can share knowledge and he is a neat guy. I would rather by the end of the school year have him buying me a mac, as he recently purchased a 17inch Powerbook G4. And I can't afford one.

Today our Yearbook rep came and she was talking about how the programs speed depends on the speed of the computer, we have a lot of no tech people on the yearbook staff. Anyhow, kind of how you mentioned buying products from microsoft, I made a remark that the reason our Dells were being slow is that they were not PowerMac G5's. So we got into an interesting discussion after class about Macs with yearbook staffs, I thought they would be more common. She says differently. I suspect that is because most schools are switching to cheaper PC systems, namely Dell systems. I can't get through peoples heads that cheaper isn't better. We have had to have so maintance in our Dell lab.

So I feel sorry for you having to sit at a Dell. I don't mind sitting at my Linux box here, and infact I like it a lot. Though I would much rather be sitting at a Powerbook G4, too bad I can't convince my ex-yearbook advisor who bought her a Powerbook G4 last march, that she never uses Portable, do upgrade to a PowerMac G5 and give me the Powerbook, HA!

The downside of being a young nerd, you end up with not always the best equipment. Being a ham operate aswell I have spend a majority of my money with that hobby. So at this point I have computers, radios, my ipod and digital camera. But for all the money I spent I could have gotten a 15 inch Powerbook G4.. umm

When I was in middle school I knew 3 Mac obsessed teachers. Now I only have 1 teacher that I really know that has a mac.

The band teacher has them, but I've never really talked to him. I going to start working in the projection booth of our auditorium where there is a PC and a G3 PowerMac. I'll have to find a way to get better computers in there lol.

[maestro55]

When I was in middle school I knew 3 Mac obsessed teachers. Now I only have 1 teacher that I really know that has a mac.

The band teacher has them, but I've never really talked to him. I going to start working in the projection booth of our auditorium where there is a PC and a G3 PowerMac. I'll have to find a way to get better computers in there lol.

Our school used to be 100% mac, and it is now only about 20% mac, with all the teacher machines on all campuses now PCs and just a few Mac labs left. It is very very sad, but I won't be there after this year, so I don't have too much to complain about. It is just that things have gotten soooo much worse when they switched to PCs, and the head tech guy is a Mac guy, BUT his boss (the superintendent who has now resigned, for several reasons) was a PC guy, the old superintendent was a Mac guy.. The replacement, umm we will see.. but we don't have money to switch back to Macs anytime soon.

[CompUser]

Our school used to be 100% mac, and it is now only about 20% mac, with all the teacher machines on all campuses now PCs and just a few Mac labs left. It is very very sad, but I won't be there after this year, so I don't have too much to complain about. It is just that things have gotten soooo much worse when they switched to PCs, and the head tech guy is a Mac guy, BUT his boss (the superintendent who has now resigned, for several reasons) was a PC guy, the old superintendent was a Mac guy.. The replacement, umm we will see.. but we don't have money to switch back to Macs anytime soon.

My school used to be 100% mac. The High School used to have iMacs for all the teachers and PowerMac G4s for the computer labs. But they swtiched.

The Middle school up until this year was Mac. I found out over thanksgiving that my dads, brothers, wifes, sisters, stepdaughters, husbands put in the computers at the middle school. (no lie about that relationship)

He said that "Your school has the most computers in a school system I have even seen"

Pretty much the main reason we switched to PCs is because of money too. That and the tech guy a.ka. my soccer coach is a PC person.

[Patmian212]

Hey atleast you guys in USA experienced macs in school, we have the ghettoest computer labs ever. 1 Lab(which constantly has class so its only free 40% of the time)has 25 1.7ghz P4 with 256MB Ram(32 shared for vram) and 40GB HDs in shuttle cases, the other lab which is for student use only had 20 toshiba laptops running 1.4 GHZ celerons with 512MB ram(32 shared for vram) with 40GB HDs this is for 300 students! Some of the class rooms such as math and science and art rooms have old P3 1ghz with 128 or 256 MB RAM and the art rom has the only PCs with video cards GeForce 3s. The school has a 20MB connection but we arent allowed to download anything and the only software we have is WIN XP HOME, Internet explorer, frontpage, the M$ Office sweet, corel draw and adobe photoshop and acrobat. NO msn allowed nor downloading of any thing which is reasonable. NOOOO one in my school accept me uses a mac. OH and this is a private school costing us $12,000 euro a year:eek:

[CompUser]

Hey atleast you guys in USA experienced macs in school, we have the ghettoest computer labs ever. 1 Lab(which constantly has class so its only free 40% of the time)has 25 1.7ghz P4 with 256MB Ram(32 shared for vram) and 40GB HDs in shuttle cases, the other lab which is for student use only had 20 toshiba laptops running 1.4 GHZ celerons with 512MB ram(32 shared for vram) with 40GB HDs this is for 300 students! Some of the class rooms such as math and science and art rooms have old P3 1ghz with 128 or 256 MB RAM and the art rom has the only PCs with video cards GeForce 3s. The school has a 20MB connection but we arent allowed to download anything and the only software we have is WIN XP HOME, Internet explorer, frontpage, the M$ Office sweet, corel draw and adobe photoshop and acrobat. NO msn allowed nor downloading of any thing which is reasonable. NOOOO one in my school accept me uses a mac. OH and this is a private school costing us $12,000 euro a year:eek:

Wow that sucks.

We have 5 labs filled with P4 2.66 or 2.88 proccessors with 17" CRTs. They used to have 40 iBook but most of them got trashed so they are sitting in a pile in a closet. All computers have MS XP Pro, MS office, photoshop, pagemaker, adobe premier, CAD programs, bridge making programs, accounting things, and lots of other stuff.

We can't use or download anything that is a .exe file.

[Patmian212]

Wow that sucks.

We have 5 labs filled with P4 2.66 or 2.88 proccessors with 17" CRTs. They used to have 40 iBook but most of them got trashed so they are sitting in a pile in a closet. All computers have MS XP Pro, MS office, photoshop, pagemaker, adobe premier, CAD programs, bridge making programs, accounting things, and lots of other stuff.

We can't use or download anything that is a .exe file.
Oh and we use 14-16" crts from 1942!!! and there is only 2 laser printers which students can use. and they al have cheapo keyboard and mice.

[latergator116]

My school has 1200 kids, yet has a computer lab with about 25 old pentiums, and maybe about half of them actually work. It's not really a big deal for me though since I hardly ever use a computer at school.

[EricNau]

Hello Eric with a "c".

I'm taking electronics 1 and if I take electronics 2 I can be certified for microsoft networking or something like that.

My teacher is really cool, really smart, and really odd. He's a good teacher although his hatred of macs can be annoying. He looks at me and then makes a comment about them. I can usually can prove him wrong about what he says though :) :). I bet by the end of the school year I can get him to buy a mac.

That teacher I speak of above was talking about how the XBOX 360s were crashing. I raised my hand and said "thats what you get when you buy a product from microsoft :D :D".

There are no other Mac users in my grade that I know of. So I'm alone to but I've gotten people to want to switch. Some people are ignorant and technologically stupid and say "macs suck because they do".

My parents bought my Dell when I was in 6th grade. It was a really nice and fast computer in its day, P4 2.53Ghz, fastest was 2.8GHz but that cost a lot more. I paid for 1/3 of my powerbook back in february.

Right now my PB has to be fixed so I'm using my dell. :(


Hello Erik with a "k." :D

Your teacher sounds so much nicer/smarter/better than mine. I'm hoping as soon as we get out of web design and more into networking, he'll be a little happier and more "teachful."
He atleast told me it was "ok" that I liked Apple (I still wanted to wack him upside the head though)! :mad:

Glad to hear there is someone else out there like me that always will rub into the teachers face when microsoft fails (which is a full time job). :p
We had to write a paper on the thing we thought advanced technology the most, so I wrote it on Apple Computer, inc. I said things like "Without Apple, we would still be typing out DOS commad lines, and no GUI would exist" and "Apple was the first to offer 3.5" Floppy drives standard, and they were the first to get rid of them and offer CD ROM as standard instead." Also mentioned firewire, etc. I never got the paper back :confused:

I've thought about it a lot, and it seems all of the really good teachers I've had have used Macs. One of my web deisgn teachers was part of the reason I switched, and so I could save up the money, I worked in his yard, it was a lot of hard work, but it was well worht it. :)

[Kobushi]

I was 16 for a whole year....then I turned 17...then 18......I skipped 19 and 20 and went straight to 21......


My GPA..uh...sometimes its the same as my BAC (Blood Alcohol Content).

[CompUser]

Hello Erik with a "k." :D

Your teacher sounds so much nicer/smarter/better than mine. I'm hoping as soon as we get out of web design and more into networking, he'll be a little happier and more "teachful."
He atleast told me it was "ok" that I liked Apple (I still wanted to wack him upside the head though)! :mad:

Glad to hear there is someone else out there like me that always will rub into the teachers face when microsoft fails (which is a full time job). :p
We had to write a paper on the thing we thought advanced technology the most, so I wrote it on Apple Computer, inc. I said things like "Without Apple, we would still be typing out DOS commad lines, and no GUI would exist" and "Apple was the first to offer 3.5" Floppy drives standard, and they were the first to get rid of them and offer CD ROM as standard instead." Also mentioned firewire, etc. I never got the paper back :confused:

I've thought about it a lot, and it seems all of the really good teachers I've had have used Macs. One of my web deisgn teachers was part of the reason I switched, and so I could save up the money, I worked in his yard, it was a lot of hard work, but it was well worht it. :)

When my Elec. teacher says something bad about macs, I'll come in with a packet of printed out proof that macs are better lol (i.e. FW vs. USB2)

My world civ teacher was telling us about this contest we could enter and we you could write an essay and win a XPS m170 laptop. She asked me if that was good and I said "Well it is a $3,000 laptop, but to bad its a dell".


Didn't apple have the first affordable mouse too?

there aren't that many erics with "K"s. I have seen erik/eric spelled Eriq.

[EricNau]

When my Elec. teacher says something bad about macs, I'll come in with a packet of printed out proof that macs are better lol (i.e. FW vs. USB2)

My world civ teacher was telling us about this contest we could enter and we you could write an essay and win a XPS m170 laptop. She asked me if that was good and I said "Well it is a $3,000 laptop, but to bad its a dell".


Didn't apple have the first affordable mouse too?

there aren't that many erics with "K"s. I have seen erik/eric spelled Eriq.

Actually, Apple was the first to use a mouse, and the first to have a trackpad on their laptops.

Go here, it's amazing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Macintosh (they used to have an entire list of things Apple had done first, I don't know what happend to it, but it still mentions a lot of stuff).

[Kobushi]

Speaking of track pads. I'm still relatively new to the laptop thing, and I've been using mine so much my fingerprints are wearing off. I don't mind as I'm a cat burglar on the side, but my finger tips are really sensitive now. Has anyone else ever done this? Or should I just chalk it up as another one of the many unique ways I injure myself?

[maestro55]

My school has 1200 kids, yet has a computer lab with about 25 old pentiums, and maybe about half of them actually work. It's not really a big deal for me though since I hardly ever use a computer at school.

That has got to suck! Our school K-12 has about 900 students we have 7 computer labs (three in elementary, with hopes to get the younger kids more interactive by the time they are in the other buildings. This way when more money comes and we have more computers, they will know how to use them.. 1 in the intermediate building and one in the junior high, two in the high school. All labs except for one are Mac labs. However the teachers all have PCs now, and so are the office computers.) We have two mobile labs one in the high school, ibooks, and one in the junior high, Toshibas.

We are the most interactive out of 2A schools in our area. Our school invests a ton of money in computers, and sadly we just can't afford the Apple systems anymore. Hoping that we find a budget for more Apple systems. We are supposed to get one more computer lab on campus, and I am hoping it is a mac lab.

[EricNau]

Here's that article from wikipedia that I can't find anymore...



Innovations introduced or popularized - at least in the field of personal computers - by the original Macintosh:

A graphical user interface (GUI) consisting of icons, a desktop, etc.
The use of a mouse or other pointing device in personal computing
The "double click" and "click-and-drag" behaviors to perform actions with a pointing device
WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") text and graphics editing
Long file names permitting whitespace and not requiring a file extension
The 3.5" hard-shelled floppy disk as a standard feature
RF-quality audio as a standard feature, including a built-in RF-quality speaker
Aesthetic and ergonomic industrial "All in One" design that reduced clutter
Seperation of a programs code from its resources to allow localization, etc.
Networking built-in


Innovations introduced or popularized-at least in the field of personal computers-by later Macintosh products:
The PostScript laser printer (LaserWriter, 1985)
Desktop Publishing
User programmablity (first through HyperCard, then through AppleScript, and now through Automator)
The SCSI interface (Mac Plus, 1986)
A signle desktop enviroment that can span multiple monitors
Audio input/output as a standard feature (Mac IIsi & Mac LC, 1990)
First Laptop with keyboard behind palmrest (PowerBook 100 series, 1991)
First laptop with built in pointing device (PowerBook 100 series, 1991), a trackball
A CD-ROM drive as a standard feature (IIvx, 1992)
First notebook computer with dock/port replicator (PowerBook Duo, 1992)
First true touchpad as a pointing device on a notebook (PowerBook 500, 1994)
First notebook with built in Ethernet support (PowerBook 500, 1994)
First notebook with built-in CD-quality stereo sound, both input and output (PowerBook 500, 1994)
Flat-panel displayes as a standard feature on a desktop (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, 1997)
The abandonment of the floppy disk (original iMac, 1998)
The first notable coloration of computer hardware, in contrast the ubiquitous beige and gray shades that computers had used (including previous Macs), (original iMac, 1998)
The first commercially available computer to rely primarily on USB for peripheral connection (original iMac, 1998)
Firewire, also known as IEEE 1394 serial bus, an Apple-developed standard also promoted by Sony under the name i.LINK (Blue and White G3, 1999)
IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g wireless networking, branded AirPort and AirPort Extreme by Apple, also monikered as WiFi, (original iBook, 1999, Powerbook G4, 2003, repectively)
The first affordable DVD-R ("SuperDrive", Power Mac G4, 2001)
First full-size notebook computer with widescreen display (PowerBook G4, 2001)
First notebook computer with 17-inch display (PowerBook G4, 2003)
First notebook computer to have a keyboard with automatically-adjusted fiber-optic backlight (PowerBook G4, 2003)
First wireless base station to have audio delivered to a stereo system or entertainment center using Wi-Fi (AirPort Express, June 2004)
First 30-inch high-defininition computer display (June 2004)
First notebook computer to provide the dual-link DVI required to run the 30" display (PowerBook G4, 2005)
First operating system to use hardware acceleration (OpenGL) for the graphical user interface (Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger), 2005)