Why did you join MR (What inspired you)

[doucy2]

post why you joined MR
or what caused you to join?

I joined because i was looking for a good place to buy and sell macs
and i had alot of tech questions.
i started with one mac when i joined (no i have moved about 20 or soo macs since then)
look at what MR has done to me

what has it done to you?

[Melkor]

I joined when I decided to make the switch not too long ago. It's a great place to get answers to mac/computer related questions. I always seem to get decent replys to any of my questions anyway.

I found the site on google btw.

[Dont Hurt Me]

To learn and share Mac Knowledge is why i have been loitering around, plus i enjoy those political threads.

[devilot]

Because I had rather blindly purchased a PB and had no idea what I was doing w/ a Mac. :o I still don't really...

[Lacero]

post why you joined MR
or what caused you to join?I first heard of macrumors.com from another forum I frequent, even though I was a long time mac user (since 1999). I have no idea how I decided to sign up. I love you, macrumors! :D


what has it done to you?It has sucked all my time and energy. I hate you, macrumors! :mad:



Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

[Blue Velvet]

Lurked for ages, then joined and posted for advice on ethernet cables. Hung around because I liked the diversity of people and many of the threads in community.

Good mix of creative, intelligent types here.

[iGary]

Google.

I'm a sucker for chat boards.

I'd probably get twice as much done if I didn't post here. :p

[Blue Velvet]

Good mix of creative, intelligent types here.

And did I say funny? I meant hilarious.

[Chundles]

It gives reason to my constant uni failures.

That and it's a top spot to find people who know stuff that you don't about your Mac.

PS, 1 year Maciversary this past weekend. Woo!!!

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Found MR the spring of 2003, when I started gathering info on a possible purchase (that ended in me getting my iBook in November 2003).

Lurked for a while longer before I joined in March 2004, when I had something to say (don't remember if it was to ask or answer a question, anymore, but who cares...?)

Was a rather slow poster the first 9 or 10 months, but I'm starting to catch up... :o ;)

[clayj]

I was looking for information about this new "headless" Mac that was rumored to be coming out... you may know it as the Mac mini.

[doucy2]

Found MR the spring of 2003, when I started gathering info on a possible purchase (that ended in me getting my iBook in November 2003).

Lurked for a while longer before I joined in March 2004, when I had something to say (don't remember if it was to ask or answer a question, anymore, but who cares...?)

Was a rather slow poster the first 9 or 10 months, but I'm starting to catch up... :o ;)
this is my 6th month as a member
and im on pace to hit 1000 post today

#983 this one is

[edesignuk]

this is my 6th month as a member
and im on pace to hit 1000 post today

#983 this one is....but we don't place importance on post count, DO WE.

[Lacero]

....but we don't place importance on post count, DO WE.
No.

<--- but I know some posters who do...Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

[doucy2]

....but we don't place importance on post count, DO WE.
no we dont
it is based on the importance of the post
and the message therefore conveyed
sorry about that (i'm just excited)

[Patmian212]

I joined up in 2004, 2 days after my brithday. I was dreaming about a powerbook but I didnt know much about it. I kept dreaming for about 9 months, and posting on these boards in many of the forums, mainly gaming and buying tips and advice(about a year ago the most active forum) and then I caved in and bought an ibook, 2 months later I traded my pc for a sawtooth and enver looked back. Since I bought my ibook I probably only loking at the buying advice section 1 a month.

[xsedrinam]

Frankly, it was frustration with another forum. Though it serves the Mac community well, any postings which hinted at speculation about new releases got penalized. Zero tolerance with any humor, albeit it well intentioned and well written, was becoming increasingly oppressive. So I looked elsewhere, and found a more balanced forum atmosphere.

[mkrishnan]

I wanted a new computer, and I wanted something stylish. I remembered having been impressed by OS X earlier, and also with the community that surrounds Macs in general.

I was using google searching to find answers to questions I had, and a lot of the hits came up here. I started lurking to get answers to all of my questions, ordered my iBook, and then created an account shortly after it arrived. :) And I've definitely loved the community aspect here. :D

[eva01]

I lurked for a long time about 4 months, and then found too many threads that i could help people in and decided to post.

[amacgenius]

I joined because i was looking for a good place to buy and sell macs and i had alot of tech questions.

Same, and now whenever I type "f" into my address bar of Safari, it autofills for the marketplace ;).

[jalagl]

I joined when I decided to make the switch not too long ago. It's a great place to get answers to mac/computer related questions. I always seem to get decent replys to any of my questions anyway.

Same here. i was looking for specific answers to questions about using a Mac mainly for hava software development. I stayed because of the community feeling. :D

[eva01]

....but we don't place importance on post count, DO WE.

Wait you mean i have been doing this all wrong :(

[PlaceofDis]

i found macbytes while looking for mac info/news. and then i found the forums, and then i found MacRumors, signed up a few weeks after being a lurker.

[Jaffa Cake]

I'd lurked for quite a while, but joined up to post a technical query I needed some advice on. A year-and-a-half later, I'm still here... :)

[iSaint]

post why you joined MR
or what caused you to join?

The witty banter...

I joined a few months before I switched. I lurked before posting, and made the switch in August of 2004. I can definitely say that post count isn't important, as my average is only 1.65 a day or something like that. But it is fun!!!

[kwajo.com]

my constant desire for more information :cool:

[StealthRider]

I joined right after the introduction of the iMac G4...everyone was saying "As expected, Apple released..." whereas I had no idea. I googled Mac news, and MR was near the top of the list- and I signed up immediately.

[dops7107]

Go on then.

I think I joined, back in March '04, because I had a question about burning CDs or something. I didn't lurk for long, I just registered with the first username that sprung to mind, and asked the question. Little did I think I'd be checking the site anymore after that. If I thought I'd be around for the community atmosphere (as I am now, basically), I'd have picked something more meaningful than dops7107, which I just read off my computer case at work :o

Oddly enough I bought my Mac Mini before looking at any sites like this. Good job it wasn't a mistake!

[evil_santa]

Lurked for a long time, then got caught up in the 10.2.x? upgrade that didnt work, that near enough killed my old G4!

[OutThere]

I dropped by in fall of 2002...friend recommended it so I checked the front page for a few days then signed up for the forums....I've been hanging around since then, never really lurked at all, when I'm not posting, I'm not visiting the boards.:D

[XIII]

Because of the Buying tips and advice forum. :D I posted a few times in there and got some great advice. :) Thanks everyone.. :o

[jefhatfield]

i had just reintroduced the mac into my life with a couple of machines in 1999, so when i found this site in 2000, i joined

it was fun to try and predict what apple inc was up to having just come out with the ibook and g4 powermac

[iGav]

Because of the people who were posting at the time, many of which sadly no longer post. :(

[applegirl]

I had a Mac for almost a year before joining MR. The more time I spent on my Mac, the more "addicted" I got. I came across the forums after one of my Mac-user friends (who happens to be a Demi-god) was talking about it.

[jefhatfield]

Because of the people who were posting at the time, many of which sadly no longer post. :(

but igav, i am still here!!

and you and maybe only three other people currently active know my real identity ;)

[katie ta achoo]

Whenever I googled for help with my iBook, it took me to macrumors forums.

It took me a few weeks to find out there was a part of the site that wasn't a forum.

My first post was in the Tiger night thread. Someone had asked about who won a PowerBook and I posted that I had.
It was deleted as spam. (I think.. I can't find that post anymore, haha)

and I know what you're thinking.. Kt.. SPAMMER? NO WAY!

So, uh.
yeah.
Google told me to join.

and I've stayed because frankly, MR is teh roxxorz.
It's fun, y'all are fun, I've met some REALLY cool people here.

you have embraced my nerdiness and fostered it!

[Lacero]

My first post was in the Tiger night thread. Someone had asked about who won a PowerBook and I posted that I had.
It was deleted as spam. (I think.. I can't find that post anymore, haha)
This post? :D

You lucky dweeb!!!

Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

[katie ta achoo]

This post? :D

You lucky dweeb!!!

Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

OK, I still suck at searching, 7 months later.

*goes to cry in corner*

[maya]

I was bored, and had a lot of time on my hands. ;) :D

That has since changed. :(

[edesignuk]

I wanted to know what the "SuperDrive" (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=3280) was in the DP1GHZ QuickSilver :o

...and I'm still here...:eek:

[Kobushi]

Similar to KT, I kept googling for help with stuff and this site kept popping up. I hung around for a full year here and there whenever an apple event was coming around. I think I finally had to register so I could pose a specific question. I still rely on MR for both uses, but poke fun at everything in between :D

[treblah]

Because I had rather blindly purchased a PB and had no idea what I was doing w/ a Mac. :o I still don't really...

Same here, I convinced my 'rents to get me one for college after reading ArsTechnica's review of 10.1 :eek:

My next post: "Confessions of A Eye Candy Whore" ;)

[thedude110]

I lurked for a long time. It seemed like a safe place with good people who weren't afraid to disagree with one another. And it was helpful to me back in my ITing days.

I made my first post after emw started a thread about how Earth's "bigger cousin" had been detected. Being someone who has more or less devoted his life to poetry, I couldn't not respond acerbically to such a use of metaphor.

Now I post in instances where I feel like I can't keep my "mouth shut." Or when a thread, like this, asks for confessions from my cyber-identity.

[Lacero]

I made my first post after emw started a thread about how Earth's "bigger cousin" had been detected.
In this thread? :D Wait, that was too easy.

Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

[katie ta achoo]

In this thread? :D

No, the news does not bode very well for Earth ... yikes!!!

stop that, you!

I'll beat you next time... I'll find the next person's first post!
Muahaha!

[AlBDamned]

I joined with a big font problem (http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=1328036&postcount=1) when I got my Dual G5 at work.

I knew very little about Macs back then (still don't) and it was and still is a huge learning curve. I had big problems with Quark too, and one software update broke my connection with our department's router, which caused me huge headaches and still remains a mystery today.

MR is brilliant for many things. Not least huge threads on Cricket, bizarrely enough.

[PlaceofDis]

stop that, you!

I'll beat you next time... I'll find the next person's first post!
Muahaha!

i couldnt tell you what mine was to be honest. oh well:o

[Lacero]

...and I'm still here...:eek:
Yes, verbose101, you started pretty gung-ho on MR your first year here. I remember it well. ;)

Mmmm.. babelicious!!
Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

[thedude110]

In this thread? :D Wait, that was too easy.

You should be Mod in charge of teaching newbies (and Katie) how to search :D

[katie ta achoo]

I joined with a big font problem (http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=1328036&postcount=1) when I got my Dual G5 at work.

I just spent the last 5 minutes searching for that post, when you had a link to it here.
I'm crap at reading. :(

and if this one (http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=688238&postcount=1) isn't Timmy's, I give up.
It seems "first post"-ish.

[dcv]

I was in the market for a new notebook earlier this year and was originally looking at buying an iBook. I lurked for quite a while and started checking back regularly to see what the latest rumours were. My first post was in the "New iBooks Next Tuesday?" mega-thread! That seemed to go on forever and I got fed up of waiting for the iBook update and went and bought a PowerBook instead. I still checked the forums anyway and just somehow got hooked.



Oh and I heard that the MR Moderators get together each year to do a Calendar shoot specially for the MR ladies ;) ;)

Ok... I actually heard no such rumour... but I'd like to *start* that rumour :D

[katie ta achoo]

Oh and I heard that the MR Moderators get together each year to do a Calendar shoot specially for the MR ladies ;) ;)

Ok... I actually heard no such rumour... but I'd like to *start* that rumour :D

How much are these calendars?
Are some of the Demi-gods involved in this, too?

I would glady pay about $3 for such a calendar!

I like your ideas, share more with us!

[edesignuk]

Oh and I heard that the MR Moderators get together each year to do a Calendar shoot specially for the MR ladies ;) ;):eek: Who told you that!? http://upload.yo-momma.net/uploads/smilies/dogeyes_s.gif
I would glady pay about $3 for such a calendar!$3!?! :eek: That all you think it would be worth? http://upload.yo-momma.net/uploads/smilies/cry-1.gif

[ibook30]

I lurked around MR for nearly a year. When the Intel announcement was made I got swept up in the excitement and started posting. Kind of.

[dcv]

How much are these calendars?
Are some of the Demi-gods involved in this, too?

I would glady pay about $3 for such a calendar!

I like your ideas, share more with us!


Hehehehe

Well let's see... there are 11 mods (http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=1792347&postcount=1). We just need another (or a group photo?) for December...

[3rdpath]

i was searching for info regarding the fabled G5 introduction. got sucked into a rather heated debate about "why all software should be free" and have been here ever since. btw, all apple introduced at the time was the MDD g4's...so I bought a QS dualie 1ghz. man, it took forever to witness the real G5.

ahh, the old days of alphatech, beej, mcrain, dukestreet( oh wait...;) ) and slyhunter/voltron.

ntm, apple's legal affairs seemed a little slower on the draw back then...

[buryyourbrideau]

I wanted a website to find information when I needed to applying to my iBook. Then I made some friends here, and I guess it has become sort of an online hobby.

I am for sure happy that I found this site. Always provides some entertainment when I am online :D

[maestro55]

I joined because I don't have a new mac, but felt that joining the mac forums would help me get more in touch with the Apple users group. Also I had nothing better to do, and I wanted to comment on the "Post your Powerbook set-up" thread where I was busy drooling over all the wonderful looking Powerbooks.

[ham_man]

Spanish was boring, and we were in the computer lab...

[iGav]

but igav, i am still here!!

You've been here long enough to be considered 'fixtures and fittings' mate, if arn ever sells up you'll be included in the deal (http://www.houseweb.co.uk/house/buy/hh/fixfit.html) ;)

and you and maybe only three other people currently active know my real identity ;)

Indeed I do. ;) :D

[Vader]

Joined because my brother told me to stop asking him questions about my mac, and go ask here.

[iPhil]

I lurked about 6 months to a year before i bought my iMac G3 and i though my brother <not Vader>, wouldn't have time to walk me thru Mac world..

And i thought i should join MR to bounce some Q's off the members and share my experiances with the Mac so far.. :o :o



iphil

[katie ta achoo]

$3!?! :eek: That all you think it would be worth? http://upload.yo-momma.net/uploads/smilies/cry-1.gif

Ok, ok!
$3.99!
That's my final offer!

[Lau]

I first visited for my powerbook buying dilemmas last summer, and lurked for a fair while, but somewhere along the line I got sucked in...

...blimey. Where am I?! :D




Seriously, I think I started because everyone seemed pretty cool, and there were some good conversations and the like. It must be a MacRumors thing, because I don't really post on any other forums. Aw, you're all just so darn funny and entertaining....:)

edit:
Oh and I heard that the MR Moderators get together each year to do a Calendar shoot specially for the MR ladies ;) ;)

Ok... I actually heard no such rumour... but I'd like to *start* that rumour :D

Excellent rumor starting. We have 4 weeks to badger them incessantly about it.... :D

[Blue Velvet]

Well let's see... there are 11 mods (http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=1792347&postcount=1). We just need another (or a group photo?) for December...

Mod election by looks. We better dive into the Picture Gallery before Onizuka nominates himself... :p

[Chip NoVaMac]

I came to MR for help transitioning to my PB a few years back.

Liked the the community feel here, and "joined" at the first opportunity by sending a few dollars their way to keep this board alive.

A benefit of really "joining" MR is not to have to worry about your post count ratings. :) Anyone that gets benefit from MR should try and become a Dem-God/Contributer.

[rockthecasbah]

i came for a month or two before i officially joined, i liked reading everyone's posts but realized it would be more enjoyable to respond once in a while :)

[OutThere]

You've been here long enough to be considered 'fixtures and fittings' mate, if arn ever sells up you'll be included in the deal (http://www.houseweb.co.uk/house/buy/hh/fixfit.html) ;)

It is true, though, that there are only a few people around who were active and had avatars when I first arrived...jefhatfield was definitely one of them...so many people have come and gone in the aging of the community...to me it seems that while we've lost quite a few great guys, though the best of them have stuck around.

[Prom1]

Well for me it all started way back in 2002; a friend of mine allowed me to use his PowerMac G4 733mhz QuickSilver for 3 months. Yes I know I claimed I owned one but the truth is it was on loan. Lucky for him I did take the offer his house was robbed of his stereo zip drives & Cds & DVDs & his Projection TVs.

Well he wouldnt teach me nothing about it ... said I had to learn about it right! he knew I would because my Compaq P3 laptop had a bum HDD wouldnt boot & I didnt have $400 at that time to replace it. I did an AltaVista search and found Macosrumors but it didnt help much.

Then I found this site! Been hooked ever since! (but I think I found this site before that outta boardem but never really fully understood Mac OS.

Funny enough with 5 different jobs and 3 different moves around 2 cities I'm finaly in a position were I can purchase a used QuickSilver or Cube to start me on Mac OS X indefinately! I cant see myself saving for 5 months for a PowerMac G5 or even a RevB iMac G5 ... too many cellular phones to buy & other Nintendo DS Xmas systems & games in the next 3 mths. It hurts but giving help & gifts of love is what I do best in this world even if it means I dont dress like a player, or a full business person like my work peers.

I'm humble like that. I've got big aspirations for my family but 1 step at a time.

[Plymouthbreezer]

I was looking for information about this new "headless" Mac that was rumored to be coming out... you may know it as the Mac mini.
Me too. Google got me here.

I didn't register until a while later...

[nbs2]

I joined MR because I was trying to figure out what I was doing with the PB that I had just bought, forcing me out of lurking status. I started lurking because a friend at school suggested I use the buying guide to gauge my purchase of the PB that I was lusting after (Rev A alBook, Apple released the Rev B 11 days after I received it).

I now spend enough time on MR that my wife makes fun of me and any time that I disappear, she assumes that I'm here. It is really embarassing. But I really do love it here. A lot of the people that I talk to and even a lot of the people I don't talk to feel like extended family. I look forward to figuring out where my wife and I will end up after I graduate and asking for location advice.

[andysmith]

I'd just bought my first Mac, and had a ton of questions - I asked in another forum, and was given a link to MR :)

[w_parietti22]

Hmmm... lets see:

As far as I remember I heard about MR, AI, and TS in an article talking about Apple and lawsuits. I visited all of them on got hooked on the rumors. Little did I know there was an entire community under the "forum" tab. I joined... didn't post muched and then... I got really into it. :) Apple- Thanks for sueing TS. ;)

[2nyRiggz]

i joined cuz i wanted to find people that use macs and be able to get help when i need it.......oh and i was bored.

Bless

[ATD]

I have been coming here for years on a daily basis to read the page 1 news. Like some people read the morning paper, this and a number of other sites are my daily paper. One day a few months ago I got bored of just reading the front page, went into the forums and starting posting. ;)

[G5orbust]

My friend told me Id get chicks if I joined... a couple of years later, Im still waiting...

[LimeiBook86]

I joined back in 8-28-2001 during school under the username MacLuver23 - god what a horrible username, what was I thinking?! :eek: Well anyway after logging into so many different machines, school, home, friends houses, the account stopped working, I don't think I was banned or anything (although I was quite the annoying fellow now that I read some posts, jeez someone should have told me to shut my yap).

Eventually I decided to cut my losses and my 49 posts and start a new life as LimeiBook86. Actually I'm quite happy I did, that old username was horrible (did I say that already?), and it was actually linked to my old (now non-existent) AOL e-mail address if I remember correctly.

Funny thing is that I registered here during school to spend time away from doing my work. Ironically now I hardly spend time on the forums because I'm so busy doing my work. ;)

I love this place, it's a great place to talk about anything Mac related, everyone seems to be friendly and we all have one thing in common. We like Macs. This is a great place with great friends, I hope it'll never go away :D

[QCassidy352]

I originally signed up in march 2003 to argue about the iraq war! :eek: But I soon abandoned the political forums and came to love the rest of the site. :)

[joepunk]

Lurked for sometime before signing up. Originally, IIRC, I was searching for help and ended up here. Have continued to enjoy the mix of posters and the different topics/subjects that they creatively engage in.

[iMeowbot]

I first started reading MR occasionally when the first iWalk hoax appeared, it was fun to browse through the discussions now and then to laugh at you all. I'm not sure how I got sucked in, but can see that it was shortly after I started buying Macs again (only a few years after swearing never to touch one of those pieces of worthless junk ever again).

[mad jew]

I joined because I'd just bought a new iBook G4 and was pretty in love. I didn't post for about a year though because I was scared to death of edesignuk. :o

I got over that when Lacero joined.

[Deepdale]

I began to do some browsing here in April and then joined in May. My reasons were twofold: I expect to buy new items and the wide range of comments from those in the know cannot be matched elsewhere, and there were the posts of a particular member that consistently impressed and amused me. Joining MR has proven to be a smart choice.

[OutThere]

I joined because I'd just bought a new iBook G4 and was pretty in love. I didn't post for about a year though because I was scared to death of edesignuk. :o

I got over that when Lacero joined.

I was never scared of e, maybe because I came around before he got on his Mod-mini power trip (he seems to have calmed down now that he's a full mod)...and because I regularly confused him with ensignparis, whose name was vaguely similar. I'm not sure I was around when edesign was known as verbose101...anyone know when he got his name changed...maybe in the 9 months before I showed up...?

[edesignuk]

maybe because I came around before he got on his Mod-mini power trip (he seems to have calmed down now that he's a full mod)erm....ooookkkaaaayyyyyy :confused:

[mpw]

Found by Google and signed up at the first visit to ask about rotating QT movies. IIRC no-one was able to help in that first thread but the answer came about a year later.

That's why a came but I stayed 'cause I liked hearing viewpoints that I'd never considered before in the community pages.

[rosalindavenue]

I started paying attention to apple and apple rumors when the powermac G5 was released and the Va Tech supercomputer was assembled. I had my eye on a G4 imac at first, and lurked for about 6 months; finally posting some questions about it in Dec of 2003 when I was about to buy a 15" PB. I chickened out and didn't get an ibook until this year.

[redAPPLE]

i learned/read about this rumored Apple product, the iWalk. and (as they say) the rest is history.

[adn rcd dly]

It was a bleak November morning. I was at work looking for some Final Cut help, stupid boss wasn't answer his phone, and I stumbled across this place. When I found it again later that day, I joined. HOORAY!

[jdechko]

I was looking for information regarding the ever-elusive PowerBook G5... just kinda stuck around after that... kept posting, and now I feel like part of the group.

[Blue Velvet]

...I didn't post for about a year though because I was scared to death of edesignuk. :o


Awww... he's a big pussycat. :)

I can think of other more intimidating and downright hostile individuals who have fortunately moved elsewhere.

[Lacero]

I was looking for information regarding the ever-elusive PowerBook G5
Yeah. He don't post much anymore. But he did start the totally OSSUM pics thread! even though it got off to a rocky start.
When I was 5, I spelled 'awesome' as 'ossum', to describe bigfoot monster trucks. Just a little tidbit from my corrupted childhood.Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

[jadekitty24]

I entered the Mac world without knowing a damn thing about it, and stumbled upon this website when searching for tips. I've belonged to many forums before and swore them all off because they were always full of extremely opinionated egotistical whackos who just want to make themselves feel superior to others...i.e. A noob posts a question and is ridiculed for being inexperienced. These forums were also very clique-ish so I mainly lurked, not posting but reading what others have posted. This website was different. I've asked many a dumb question and have not gotten ridiculed for being a noob. Not to mention, this site is full of intelligent, creative and funny people with such interesting personalities it's hard not to get hooked;)

[Clix Pix]

A friend had just bought an iMac and so I took a look first at the Apple site to see what this thing was, then, my curiosity pricked, did a Google so that I could find out more about the mysterious new world she had just entered. A long-time PC/Windows user, I think I was hoping to find a bunch of reasons why she'd just made a huge mistake. Well, the joke was on me! I found several Mac-related sites, including Macrumors. Read the front page and then discovered the forums. I read some of the posts and promptly added the site to my "favorites" list. Next day I was back again, reading more posts and becoming more and more intrigued....

After spending time in the local Apple store and spending some time actually hands-on with the OS, I was beginning to lean in the direction of getting myself a Mac, too, especially as I had been having some problems with my PC. I was still "on the brink" when I finally registered (hence the user name). Then the announcement came about the new Rev C iMac and suddenly I wasn't on the brink any more -- I knew that I wanted a Rev B iMac and so that was that and I hied off to the Apple store, coming home with my brand-new gleaming white iMac... One of the first things I did online after getting the machine set up was to post on MacRumors!

That was back in mid-October and here I am, in for the long haul. I've learned so much from these forums and have enjoyed them as a reader and as an active participant.

OTB

[mad jew]

Awww... he's a big pussycat. :)

I can think of other more intimidating and downright hostile individuals who have fortunately moved elsewhere.


I know. :D

He's actually probably the real reason I joined. I loved the way he treated newbies, especially using the pics. :D

As for any power trips, I have to disagree. Apart from posting a little bit less, he seems like the same ol' funny-as edesignuk that we all know and love. :)

[mikebatho]

I joined because I don't know squat about computers, and have one.

I'm a freelance illustrator/designer, and was eventually dragged kicking & screaming into the digital age & forced to buy a computer. I trained on Macs, did my first couple of years in the field on a PC, then returned to Macs to freelance.

I like my machine, but don't have the type of mind that handles computer info very well (in fact terribly) so I find the kind & helpful advice of people on these forums life saving at times. And often their patience!!

Alright, the Ipod nutters can get a bit fierce and anal, but their a good bunch on here on the whole.

I now pop in fairly often to have a sosey around the community forum & stick my nose in where it seems reasonable....