Hello Apple

I remember a looong time ago, maybe right when OSX had just come out, a friend of mine had a snow iBook and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Once I saw him do a text-to-speak in textedit, I was sold. Haha, I was maybe 14 at the time.

Now of course, I use my mac for just about everything but the text-to-speak feature thing, but I thought it was the coolest thing back then.

Since then I've had a 15" 1.0 Titanium PB, 12" 1.5 Alu PB, and now a 2.16 MB. I use it for everything from small time video production and web design to itunes/internet at college.

 

My first experience with Apple was the Apple II, way back in the early 80's in elementary school.

In the mid 90's, when I was ready to get my first computer for law school, I considered a Mac, but wound up with a Compaq. At my first job, we used Macs, and I was sold. I bought my first one in 1999. It was a green iMac DV 400. Great machine, which my kids now have in their bedroom. A few years later, I bought a iMac G4, an really great computer which I still use. Three years ago, I got an iBook G4, which I love and use daily. Most recently, an iPod nano (2g).

 

I got my first Mac when I was 9 for my birthday, a iBook G3 900MHz, 256MB RAM, it now has a dead HD

 

I looked into the Mac side back in 2003. Windows was all I knew. I got really fed-up with the upkeep on a daily and weekly basis of my PC at the time. I felt I was spending more and more time on maintenance, re-installs, and other stuff like defragmenting, viruses, and spyware.

Things had to change, surely there has to be a better way? Isn't computing all about what you do, and not how you maintain the damn thing?

So I was afraid, very afraid about switching - but I took the plunge, I bought the Alu Powerbook G4 15" with Panther, upgraded to Tiger once it was released. I now have a iMac Alu 24" 2.8Ghz, and a iBook for traveling around.

I enjoy my computing experience, get things done, and feel more happier and productive.

I will never go back to Windows, ever!

 

Well the first time I used a Mac was when I used my Dad's G3 to play bugdom. I'm not sure which year it was but I think it was early 2000s. It was running OS 9 and was a refurb, I think. I'm not sure about it anyway but I fondly remember playing bugdom. That was one epic game.
I also used some G3s at school (around 2003, 2004) and used an app called "Amazing Animation". I was pretty good at it and I enjoyed using it shame I didn't become interested in Macs sooner... I guess it was because I had Windows XP at home which I was not only more familiar with, but I thought it looked better than OS 9.
My Dad then bought an iBook G4 that I used once or twice. I thought I deleted iMovie because I accidentally removed it from the dock. Oops. I've never actually told him but I guess that since I didn't delete it properly, it should be there still xD Anyway, I used MSN on it and didn't like the MSN client as it sucked - which is why I now use Adium
Finally, I used some Mac Minis at school with Comic Life, which was fun. To my annoyance, Comic Life is not included on new Macs... WHY!? It was one of the things I loved about the Mini I used (ah well, I'll buy it one day).
Oddly, the day my iMac arrived, I saw that my school had bought some older 17" iMacs (it was September 07) and it made me want mine so badly... then when I got home, there it was! haha. It heard my prayers!

So yeah, that's my story of my introduction to Apple. I think I used my friend's iPod Nano briefly before-hand too, but that doesn't really count.

 

After Microsoft treated me like a theif

after I dropped about $200 on XP, my machine crashed(of course) after I plugged in the notebook power supply. The crash set the machines date back to 1980, and since I didn't register my copy of XP beforehand, Microsoft assumed I was trying to steal it and locked me out. I was in Japan at the time and had to call this number, waste a half hour of my life and work through some language issues before I could finally activate the copy of the thing I had JUST bought.

Not wanting to constantly be treated like a potential criminal by Billy G, I looked elsewhere. I had enjoyed working with Linux as a server OS, but as a desktop it was lacking. It was then I read about OS X(would have been late 2003 or so) and was hooked. A unix OS that was functional as a desktop and damn pretty to boot. I took the plunge, bought an iBook and since then have purchased a powermac g5, a powerbook, and now a macbook SR. Couldn't be happier with the mac on the desktop....as a server however I still prefer Linux. Macs server products just aren't there yet, and honestly will probably never catch up with Linux.

Fortunate to work at a place where we use all macs as desktops, but alas we also use some on the server side....