how long have you been using macs for

[Macette]

mac plus

we got a mac plus with a 20 meg HD when i was 6 or 7... in 1985 i guess. that's not far off twenty years! then we had a succession of powerbooks hooked up to big monitors - i dusted one off the other day. what a brick.

now i have an ibook and i want an ipod so much i want to cry. they've just put this enormous billboard up around the corner from my house and it tortures me day after day.

*sigh*

consumer lust is a bad, sad thing.

 

[mac15]

cool another australian on macrumors
the more the better

 

[Falleron]

I still use a PowerMac 8600 + a PowerBook 1400 (117Mhz model - system 7.5.3 + wont take anything else because of memory)!! They are about 7 years old. This is where apple's problem is!! They build them like a rock!! Good for us, but it means that we dont buy machines that often. Hope apple keeps up the good work though. Just got my Dual 1Ghz.

 

[teabgs]

Originally posted by Falleron
I still use a PowerMac 8600 + a PowerBook 1400 (117Mhz model - system 7.5.3 + wont take anything else because of memory)!! They are about 7 years old. This is where apple's problem is!! They build them like a rock!! Good for us, but it means that we dont buy machines that often. Hope apple keeps up the good work though. Just got my Dual 1Ghz.

Yeah, I hear that! Still using my 6500. Getting a new tower in July though. Figure that'll hold me until 2005 or 2006. However much I'll WANT to upgrade more I don't know if I'll be able to afford it.