How many Macs have you owned?

[Foxer]

A.K.A. Foxer's (Apple) Odessey

I was thinking, whilst sitting in traffic this morning, that I have owned more than my share of Macs since switching back from the PC world in May 2002. Nine fippin' Macs. The excellent resale value of Apples has allowed me to swtich computers a ridiculous rate. I need an intervention or something. Somehow, my wife has not left me.

[edesignuk]

PowerMac G4 400MHz (AGP Graphics, GB Ethernet)
PowerMac G4 Dual 1GHz (Quicksilver)

not a lot :eek:

[Opteron]

First mac was a "mac Plus"
Second was an LC 475.

[MoparShaha]

:)

[Dont Hurt Me]

Performa 550 (68030)
Imac 333
Imac 500
Quicksilver 733 ( now at 1.4)

[mikepctp]

SE, II Fx, LC, LC II, 800 AV, 8100, 7500, G3 Beige... 520 & 540 C laptops... and some kinda trash PowerCurve mutant...

[bousozoku]

Four or five, depending on how you view clones, since 1993.

Performa 476 a.k.a. LC 475
PowerComputing PowerCenter 120
PowerBook G3/233 no L2 cache (gone, thankfully)
PowerMac G3/400
PowerMac dual G4/800

[abhishekit]

Originally posted by Foxer
A.K.A. Foxer's (Apple) Odessey

I was thinking, whilst sitting in traffic this morning, that I have owned more than my share of Macs since switching back from the PC world in May 2002. Nine fippin' Macs. The excellent resale value of Apples has allowed me to swtich computers a ridiculous rate. I need an intervention or something.

(At least I'm still on my first iPod! And I've accumulated quite a collection of Apple stickers.)

May 2002 - Dual 1.0 PowerMac. Sold 1/2003 in anticipation of speed bump.

Aug. 2002 - 14 inch iBook. Needed a portable for a month-long business trip. Sold Oct. 2002 b/c I didn't need it anymore.

January 2003 - 17-inch iMac. Wanted a "hold-over" desktop. Sold in March 2003.

March 2003 - Dual 1.42 PowerMac. iMac just wasn't working out - wanted dual processor power for proapps. Sold in June in anticipation of G5.

March 2003 - 12-inch PowerBook. Transferred to position with weekly travel and I wanted a mac to carry around. Sold in July.

July 2003 - 1 Ghz eMac. "Hold-over" until G5. Sold in Oct.

Oct. 2003 - Dual 2.0 G5. Sold in January '04 when I took a lower paying job to raise cash.

January 2004 - 17-inch PowerBook. For some reason I thought this was an "economical." Sold a month later.

February 2004 - 12-inch G3 iBook. Ultimate cost saver while I wait for Rev.B G5.

Somehow, my wife has not left me.
u must be an authorized reseller:D

[Mord]

powerbook 100
LC475
g4 cube
ibook 600 cd

all working all in use :-)

[Achtung_U2]

Well, this has all been a while, but I'll come as close as I can :)

06/1993 Performa 250 16 MHz @ $900-$1000

11/1993 Quadra 610 25 MHz @ $2000

10/1995 Radius 81/110 110 MHz @ $1800
(last NuBus configured model)

10/1999 PowerMac G4 'Sawtooth"
400 MHz @ $ 1650

04/2002 Ti Powerbook 667 MHz @ $3000+

Kinda fun to look back. All except for the price of my Powerbook compared to now OUCH! :D

[dave1234]

I have owned 2 myself, iMac DV 400 mg
and my G4 PB, but all in all my family has owned 17 (including my two).

[zodiac]

so far I own 1 and it's a performa 6200:(

[Macmaniac]

Performa 6300 CD
700mhz iMac CRT Snow
For 10 years I have only had 2 macs, :eek:

[Doctor Q]

I think I have had 7. (You can't expect me to count accurately to such high numbers.) It might be 8.

[mms]

My family's owned six.

SE, something else, Performa 6400/180, G3 PB 333, G4 Cube 500, G4 TiBook 800.

[ThomasJefferson]

IIe
Mac Plus
LCIII
Starmax 160 (still working)
----------
Abandoned Apple for Windows (job reality)
Got Sober
----------
ibook 600

Waiting on finances for a G5

[Ambrose Chapel]

LCII
Color Classic
LC 475
7200
5200
5400
Power Mac G4
TiBook

=]

[miloblithe]

Centris 610, summer 1993
iMac rev. B, spring 1999
iBook 500, summer 2001
eMac, 1Ghz, fall 2003

I'm hoping that by the time I buy my next computer I'll be back into a cycle of my life where I have a good job (right now I'm in grad school . . . again). Then maybe I can get a non bottom-of-the-line mac for the first time since 1993.

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
I think I have had 7. (You can't expect me to count accurately to such high numbers.) It might be 8.

You're far enough away that you may remove your shoes, if that will help. :D

[HexMonkey]

1997: 2nd hand Quadra 700
2000: 2nd hand Powemac 7300/180
2003: New 1 GhZ eMac

I still have my old ones because by the time I got a new[er] one, the old one would be worth about NZ$10, and there'd be no point selling it. :(

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by bousozoku
You're far enough away that you may remove your shoes, if that will help. :D personal to bousozoku (http://www.thefunnypage.com/toes/6toes.jpg)

[mikepctp]

I thought "Hollywood" had pedicurists... man... get some help...

MP

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
personal to bousozoku (http://www.thefunnypage.com/toes/6toes.jpg)

Wow. 12 digits down there...

:eek:

I'm on my second PowerBook. :)

[jrv3034]

This is my first one.

I love it! :D

[trebblekicked]

sawtooth dual 500
quicksilver 867
ti 1ghz

[garzillor]

1986 Mac Plus
1988 Mac SE
1993 Mac Centris 650
1998 Power Mac G3/300 MT Tower
2000 iMac DV 500 MHz
2001 G4 Ti PowerBook 550 MHz
2002 Power Mac Dual G4 1.0 MHz
2003 G4 Al PowerBook 1.25 GHz
2003 17” iMac 1.25 GHz G4
2003 Dual 2.0 GHz G5

[whocares]

I started late (1999). What can I say, I'm young!

333MHz Strawberry iMac. Yum. Still have it; still works. :D

500MHz iBook. Sold

800MHz G3 iBook. Using it right now. Best damn laptop I've ever used. Then again I've never used a PBook. *Sigh*

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says....
LCIII
LC630
Stamax 3000/200 clone
G3/300 (beige)
G4 DP800

iBook 300 (Blueberry)
Powerbook G4 550
Powerbook G4 867 (15")

Oh yeah!!!!!

[iHambone]

4

My wife is still using our first mac, a 266 Blueberry iMac.

I've had a Blue and White G3.

Currently use a 1.2 ghz G4 tower, Gigadesigns upgrade, and a 500 dual usb iBook.

Love them all.

The 266 iMac is still chugging along quite nicely.

:)

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
personal to bousozoku (http://www.thefunnypage.com/toes/6toes.jpg)

If he had 15 toes, I could understand where the Chinese Abacus had its beginnings. :D

You didn't get that from the "Nuclear Power is Safe" site, did you?

[Kwyjibo]

two
800mhz iBook G3
and
867 mhz PowerBook g4 ... the pb is my current machine

[dukemeiser]

700 Mhz G3 iBook
400 Mhz iMac DV (Blueberry)
300 Mhz PowerMac G3 MT

And I still own all three. I plan on skipping the G4 and going to a G5 for my next Mac. :D

[mmathis]

Performa 575
B & W G3 Tower (300 mhz)
G5 Dual 2 Gig

Guess which one's my favorite...

[KC9AIC]

My family of four has had about 16 Macs, so many that we've lost count. For several models we've owned more than one simultaneously. We've named every one of them. Right now, we try to keep only as many computers around as there are people, but that "rule" has caused me to invite guests over. :p

[themadchemist]

I have owned and own the following, all still in working condition:

Mac SE (double disk drive)
Performa 6300
Performa 6320
PowerMac G4 400 MHz (AGP Graphics, GB Ethernet)|-->what I'm using right now!

Hopefully, I'll add a G5 to the family soon.

[takao]

sadly enough: zero

but i'm going to increase this number in a few months ..ibook for me and emac/imac for the family

just had to re-install windows xp yesterday...ohh the pain (IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL -errors....i love them)

[Le Big Mac]

Originally posted by Macmaniac
Performa 6300 CD
700mhz iMac CRT Snow
For 10 years I have only had 2 macs, :eek:

15 years, and just three.

IIcx 1989-96
PMac 7500/100 1996-2003
iMac (1Ghz) 2003-present.

And I'm something of a gadget junky. Just cheap, I guess, and lucky that macs have build quality to last this long.

[varmit]

first was Apple IIc, bought by my parents during college, used during elementary school by our family before getting a PC by the time I got to 6th grade.

The others are mine, see bellow, and in that order, ibook first, quicksilver after anouncement of G5.

[tiktokfx]

Ummmmm

About 24.

[tiktokfx]

Here's 10 of em, from years ago.

http://tiktokfx.dnsalias.com:8000/comp/Towers.jpg

[FriarTuck]

1995 Performa 6200 CD (75 MHz, 8 MB RAM, 1 Gig HD) $1800

1999 Blueberry iMac (266 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 6 Gig HD) $1199

2002 eMac (700 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 40 Gig HD) $950

2003 12" PowerBook BTO (867 MHz, 640 MB RAM, 60 Gig HD)

I'm afraid it's going to be a while before I cross the GHz barrier. I'm tapped out.

:(

[Moxiemike]

This should be fun.

I have a Mac Plus we got in 1986 or something
Still works. With original 20gb Apple Drive. Anyone wanna buy it?

Also have 2 SE's and a Classic II.

At one point had a IIsi, IIci, Color Classic, Centris 650, PowerCenter 120, 7200/120, 4400/200, G3 266 (upgraded to 366), Lombard 333, G4 Dual 450, Tibook 667.

Now I have a Dual Gig QS and a Powerbook 12 1ghz.

There was a weekend where I rescued 25 9500's from the dumpster at my old art school, took 'em home, reinstalled system 8.5 on 'em and sold 'em on ebay.

Helped allow me to not work for a year in art school and subsequently start my freelance career. I'll never forget slumming it in a dumpster, tossing Macs to a friend, and then ditching my coveralls in the dumpster, putting on a pair of sweatpants and driving back to my house.

Was hilarious.

:)

[TEG]

Well

4 technically;

1 LC II (Never Used)

1 II Cx (Never Worked)

1 Quadra 605 (Just used for War Craft, and some experimenting)

1 TiBook (Current Primary Computer)

TEG

[virividox]

original macintosh
2 IIsi
2 performa (forgot the model, its still running back in my house in manila)
1 first ever powermac
ibook (dual usb 500)
17 albook rev a

[me_94501]

I'm on my 5th Mac right now (6th nif you count the PowerBook 3400 I had on loan for a while):
-Mac Plus (still works!)
-Performa 578
-Power Mac 7500/100
-PowerBook 3400/200 (loaned)
-iMac G3/500 (still in use)
-iBook G3/900 (still in use)

[Jookbox]

i've never owned one, but i've been sitting in front of one mac or another all day for the past 6-7 years at work. companies just assume designers want macs.

[Counterfit]

Personally, I own two. A Beige G3 (http://homepage.mac.com/counterfit/PhotoAlbum3.html) and a Aluminum 15" PB (http://homepage.mac.com/counterfit/PhotoAlbum1.html)

My parents own(ed):
Apple IIgs (lent/given to a family member)
LC520 (sitting in my father's office at his school until they get him a newer computer)
333MHz Lime iMac, sitting at home, doing little of anything.

My brother has a UMAX S900, and has been trying to get some $$ for a 17" PB, but has probably decided to wait for the G5 PB's.

[dontmakemehurtu]

:(

[bankshot]

I've owned 3 Macs, and I still have all 3.

PowerMac 7600 132 MHz, upgraded to G3 350 MHz, running OS 8.6. Still using it for Digital Performer, on those rare occasions when I get a chance to make some music anymore.

QuickSilver G4 733 MHz, running 10.3.2. My main machine at home.

iBook G3 600 MHz, running 10.3.2. The wife's machine.

I've also managed to convince my employer (where Windows is king and Mac is a dirty word) to buy two 15.2" PowerBooks (1.25 GHz) and a dual 2 GHz G5 Power Mac with an XServe RAID. I personally use one of the PowerBooks every day, and often use the G5 either remotely from my office or directly down in the lab. They're "mine" too as far as I'm concerned. :D

[whocares]

Originally posted by tiktokfx
Here's 10 of em, from years ago.

http://tiktokfx.dnsalias.com:8000/comp/Towers.jpg

Have you got a mini VTech cluster there running on "vintage" machines? :confused: :p :p :p

What kinda flops do you get?

[tiktokfx]

Originally posted by whocares
Have you got a mini VTech cluster there running on "vintage" machines? :confused: :p :p :p

I don't know if you meant it humorously or not, but that actually was when I was at Virginia Tech, from VT surplus 7300s.

It wasn't a barnburner but it let me do renders significantly faster than I could on the G3 I had then, for just a few hundred bucks.

That was also quite a few years ago.

[whocares]

Originally posted by tiktokfx
I don't know if you meant it humorously or not, but that actually was when I was at Virginia Tech, from VT surplus 7300s.

Yeah, it was humour! (well, supposed to be ;) )

[FelixDerKater]

3 Macs
1 Apple ][+
2 AMD-based PCs.

All I have now is a PowerBook G4 500...

Hopefully I'll be able to afford a new PowerBook soon. :)

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Foxer
A.K.A. Foxer's (Apple) Odessey

I was thinking, whilst sitting in traffic this morning, that I have owned more than my share of Macs since switching back from the PC world in May 2002. Nine fippin' Macs. The excellent resale value of Apples has allowed me to swtich computers a ridiculous rate. I need an intervention or something. Somehow, my wife has not left me.

parent's... II+, IIe, performa 600, ppc 601 desktop
me... power tower pro 180, ibook
borrowed... dual G4

PCs...yikes...pentium 120, pentium 150, 366 mhz compaq presario laptop

wish list...12" inch g4 ibook/or 12" inch powerbook and 64 bit athlon laptop

[Nermal]

First Mac in the house was a Classic II, which my brother borrowed from school. Then he got a Colour Classic, which he still has, but unfortunately the hard drive's dead.

As for Macs that I actually owned:

800 MHz iBook (sold it last year)
LC III (bought to onsell to a friend who collects stuff, but I haven't actually sold it yet)
1.25 GHz G4 (my current system)

[5300cs]

Macintosh Portable
Quadra 840av
Classic II x2
20th Anniversary Mac
Xserve
PowerMac G4
PowerMac G3
15" TiBook
17" PowerBook
800Mhz iBook x2
500Mhz iBook
PB 540c
PB Duo 280c
PB 5300cs
PB 150

[DavidFDM]

Let's see . . .

1. 512 enhanced
2. SE
3. IIci
4. 7100
5. Beige G3 Minitower
6. Beige G3 Minitower
7. PowerBook 1400
8. White iBook
9. Ruby iMac
10. Quicksilver G4
11. 20" LCD iMac

plus an iPod.

Hope everyone is well. Best regards,

David

[johnnyjibbs]

Just the one. My brilliant 12" PowerBook! YEAH! :cool:

[gwuMACaddict]

apple IIe
another apple IIe
original mac
performa 63something or other
powerbook520
pismo
imac DV 400
imac DV 500
imac 17inch
another imac 17inch

:D

[primalman]

lemme see, since 1989…

SE
color classic
LC something
performa something
IIci
7100/80
Centris 650
7600/120
PowerCenter Pro 180
Beige G3 266
PM G4 667
PM G4 533
PM G4 1.25 DP
TiBook 1Ghz

holy cow.

:eek:

[wordmunger]

512
SE
SE/30
Powerbook Duo
7200
7200
PowerBase 180 (I think)
PowerCenter 150 (I think)
B&W G3 400
G4 450
G4 450
G4 450
Original iMac (still have)
Original iBook (still have)
Original TiBook (still have)

I think that's it... The 7200s through the G4s were from my business-owning years, so they weren't all exclusively used by me. But I did own them!

[frank5050]

SE (8MHz)
Macintosh Portable (16MHz) - still have
IIci (25MHz)
Powerbook 190 (33MHz)
Power Computing Power100 (100MHz+G3 upgrade card 233MHz) -still use
iMac 17" (1GHz) - primary

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by 5300cs
Macintosh Portable
Quadra 840av
Classic II x2
20th Anniversary Mac
Xserve
PowerMac G4
PowerMac G3
15" TiBook
17" PowerBook
800Mhz iBook x2
500Mhz iBook
PB 540c
PB Duo 280c
PB 5300cs
PB 150

i take it you like macs:D

[vollspacken]

macs I have or had (the ones my family had are indexed with a ***)

- ***Mac IIci (died two years ago...)
- ***Beige Powermac G3 266 (still around at my parent's home, but never used)
- Tangerine iMac DV 400 (my first own mac, I sold it before going to college in the US, what a shame, I should have kept it...)
- tiBook 1Ghz w. Superdrive (I'm typing these lines on it right now)
- MAXED OUT!!! Mac SE/30 (it will get a custom paint job very soon...)
- broken Mac LC (needed the Apple decal for a mouse mod)
- broken Mac SE (needed the case for a VGA monitor mod)
- a second Mac SE/30 (broken, needed the case for said case paint job - I don't want to ruin the original case...)

vSpacken

[5300cs]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
i take it you like macs:D

Only a little :o ;)

...and this has been over the past 3 years. :D

[MacsRgr8]

I own 17 Macs....

But my top 10 =

Dual 1.8 GHz G5
Dual 1.25 GHz G4
700 MHz iBook Dual USB
500 Mhz G4
450 MHz G4 Cube
400 MHz G3 B&W
350 MHz G3 B&W
266 MHz G3 Beige MT
350 MHz 9600
Colour Classic

rest of 'em are just for fun :D (SE, Classic, SE 30... ya know)

eh... no wife though .... Just the appartment to me, myself and i ......Macs

(funny thought: not one real iMac!)

[jholzner]

I've been a mac user since about 1996 or 1997. My first Mac was a Performa 6300 CD...I really like that computer a lot.

Next up was a beige G3 PowerMac that I got for college.

After my freshman year I decided to get a G3 laptop though I kept my powermac as well.

Now I'm just down to a G4 powermac.

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by MacsRgr8
eh... no wife though .... Just the appartment to me, myself and iIs one of those facts the cause of the other? For some people, too many computers might leave no room for a wife. For others, having no wife might make the companionship of Macs necessary! :)

[ratspg]

When i was yougner, i had a Performa 630cd, theen.... yeeeeears later, i bought a 667 TiBook...
now... im on the way to buying a dual 1.8ghz g5 :) with a plasma screen

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
Is one of those facts the cause of the other? For some people, too many computers might leave no room for a wife. For others, having no wife might make the companionship of Macs necessary! :)

My computers are my pets. ;)

[timbloom]

Mac 512k
Mac Color Classic
LCII (multiple)
IIsi (3)
Centris (dont remember model)
Powermac 6100
PM 8100
PM g3 400
PM g4 Cube
PM g4 DP 533
PM g4 DP 800
iMac Blueberry 350
iMac DV 400
iBook 333 (i think that was the speed)
iBook Dual USB 500
iBook Dual USB 800
Powerbook Duo 230? (black and white)
Powerbook Duo 2300 (color)
Powerbook g4 15" 1.25 ghz (currently own)

I think that is it..

[tekno_geek911]

12" 500MHz iBook G3
12" 800MHz iBook G3
12" 867MHz PowerBook G4
15" 1GHz iMac G4

[FelixDerKater]

Oh. How could I have forgotten the laptops I owned... Duo 210 and 1400cs

Also, there was the Mac Portable. How could anyone consider that a laptop?

[Dub]

I've only ever had 1 Mac, an eMac 1GHz which I got a couple of weeks ago. I am very happy with it so I wouldn't be surprised if it was the first of many in the years to come.

[MacsRgr8]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
Is one of those facts the cause of the other? For some people, too many computers might leave no room for a wife. For others, having no wife might make the companionship of Macs necessary! :)

I think you're right....

Usually my relationships with the female part of the human race don't really enjoy being shared with 17 other... eh... companions. ;)

Likewise, my 17 companions (of which the girlfriend amazingly seems to figure out my favorite one i.e. the fastest) don't get on too well with her either:
She will usually ask the only steady companion(s) "Where is the start-button?"...

That most of the time spells the end of girl-Mac-me trio relationship :(

:p

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Dub
I've only ever had 1 Mac, an eMac 1GHz which I got a couple of weeks ago. I am very happy with it so I wouldn't be surprised if it was the first of many in the years to come.

now that's a great way to start into the mac world

i got started with an apple II and while it was cool, i didn't have an optical drive, the blazing speed, or the internet

i have heard of people who started their experience with macs with a tibook...i wonder how that feels...he he...and one day we will all hear about a pc user switching over and buying their first mac which will be a G5 power mac :D

[geerlingguy]

Mac IIci, IIsi, LCII, LCIII, Performa 637CD, PowerBook 180c, PowerBook 100, PowerBook 190, Performa 6360, G3/300 (Blue & White), G4/400 (Gigabit), iBook G4.

Lots and lots!!!

[geerlingguy]

btw, I still have the PB 190, iBook G4, Perf. 637, and IIci (and they work fine :D ).

[Nik_Doof]

2003: 12" Powerbook 1ghz DVI
2004: 12" iBook Clamshell 300mhz (for my g/f :))

[Savage Henry]

I'm new to this game, having only worn the Macintosh badge for just 2 years. Therefore I have only ever owned 3. However, due to my positive vibe, I have inspired incalculable others to buy one for themselves.


For 'incalculable' read two, so I will claim those as well by proxie. God I feel I'm in the big leagues now!:D

[SpaceMagic]

signiture :p

[Azoblue]

iMac 333Mhz - Tangermarine

aaaannnnd two weeks newly acquired... (although not new itself)

-Titanium PowerBook 800mhz 15.2" MegaWidescreen ($1150 CAD)

(I got it with a brand new battery, 128 bit AirPort card, 512MB RAM, Brand New Top Case, Brand New 40GB HDD)

I quickly put an 80 GB HDD and returned the 40GB, (The difference was $104 CAD)
And further customized by replacing every key to white. (Free)

Total- about $1450 CAD with tax

Brand New it was $5099. What a deal.
I plan on having this for a couple of years.