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How did you learn about Macs?

Trial & error, with some nice help & guidance from the kind folks here and at Apple's discussion forums.

I'm still very much a student though. I get a heckuva lot more help than I give. I guess that's bound to change sooner or later...probably later!
 
I've pretty much only ever used Mac's, but I've never been a superuser of any kind. Don't know any form of programming or have a rather limited understanding of what's really going on behind the sleek surface of OS X, which is really beginning to bug me...

Most of what I know, I've learned here, and a few other random places on the net perhaps, passing most of my mac-using friends... fortunately there's still a couple of real pros around for immediate emergency phone-support :)

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I'm an ex-hater. Well, we had to use OS7 back in the school days on PowerMac 7200 or whatever they were - there was one G3 (a beige one that I recently saw in a Cash Converters for $99 AUD - tempted, but, no) and boy could you tell the difference.

I learnt how to use Macs from my Mac using mate in uni and from the tips and tricks sections in magazines but mainly from these forums and others similar to it after I had done some serious exploring on my new (at the time) iBook. It was fun finally seeing and doing all the stuff you had read about before. I loved how I could just plug my camera in and POW there were my photos all ready to go.

Now I'm super excited about the future with Intel and 10.5 and seeing what Microsoft can come up with so that Apple can pull ahead again. It's gonna be fun to see it all unfold.
 
Chundles said:
Now I'm super excited about the future with Intel and 10.5 and seeing what Microsoft can come up with so that Apple can pull ahead again. It's gonna be fun to see it all unfold.
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I couldn't agree more. It's only going to get better. :D
 
I've got to laugh about something. I've talked to a lot of persons who have used Macs, basically their whole life. I go in when I'm a sophmore(2 years ago), use a Macintosh for the first time with OS X 10.3.x, over the summer buy a Powerbook, install Jaguar, sell it, buy an iMac, install Panther, go back as a junior and towards the end of the year, get the root password, get an administrator account on LDAP for the server and know more about Mac's than my teachers that have used them their entire life. Finally, this year, my senior year, possibly getting hired to administer the Macs. I have an iBook G3 (see siggy). I've already created an image and it sets all the options for all the computers. I've re-imaged a lab over and over. I've installed software, I'm the Web Master for my Web Design class. I'm fixing problems on everyone's computer (not just Mac's, but everyone's computers). All the while, I'm teaching my teacher's more and more on how to be proficient with their Mac's. Oh and they want to fire the previous administrator just to hire me. How's that for being 17
 
Started when I was 4. This is me before a Macworld event in CA, probably in the late 80's.

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I learned about Macs... well, I never really did, I've just always used them. Then when my Mom married my step-dad we switched to PC's, and he bought my Mom a G3 iMac, we gave it to my cousin shortly after as a graduation gift. Now there's no Mac in the house. I wasn't really into computers at that time, but I still liked them, I was only in fifth grade when the iMac was sold so I didn't care. Then I was in 6th or 7th grade and my step-dad took my grandfather to Comp USA to get him his first computer which was a PC. We split up. I remember walking in and thinking "wow that is a really cool looking computer, is that really a computer?", so I made my approach. It was a G4 iMac. I remember barley being able to reach the mouse or see the screen. Thats about the time I became curious, I started looking at them. Time passed. I saw the 3rd gen iPods, I wasn't sure what they where, I just thought they looked cool. I picked up a pamphlet unfolded it and showed it to my parents, the posted it on my wall. Thinking about how cools it would be to have one, so I asked for one for Christmas. That was about the time I started obsessing with Macs. This was 2003, my freshman year in high school. After I got my iPod I started bugging my parents about Macs and how little trouble we had with them when we had them. A little less than two years later I got my iMac G5, I was very happy. Thats about it, that was long. The longest post I've ever made.
 
Worked at the Apple Store for a semester, so that certainly helped ;) Mostly I've just learned from practical experience, which means there's a lot I don't know and gaping holes in what I do.
 
mkrishnan said:
I just hang out in your threads, Jew! :eek: :p :D
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:D

We must have different areas of expertise because I always sit her at my Mac and think "wow, how does mkrishnan know so much about these things". :p
 
Mostly tinkering, constantly trying to get the computer to run faster because my parents wouldn't buy a new on (took 5 years to get a our second comp). Then when I broke something, figuring out how to fix it usually by going online and using Apple support or google (didn't know about this place yet) to give me tips.
 
I was born with it.

and by born with it
I mean... GOOGLE!

Well, not born with google, and by looking at the google front page, I learned, but ...

ARGH! MY BRAIN! MELTING! TOO MUCH CABARET!

:)
Basically trial and error.
Maybe I absorb some smartness by osmosis when I'm at the genius bar?

..being there every week, if I get one new fact, I'm like.. more genius than them.
oh man, that'd be so cool.

I swear, I'm at the Apple store more than some of their employees. EEP!

Also, since I'm really interested in computers, I learn a lot.
 
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