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How long have you been using Macs?

mrsir2009

mrsir2009

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I've been using them for pretty much all my life - Which isn't that long as I'm only 14 years old... It started with I was 6 or 7 on my Dad's old LC3, then moved on from there to Preformas, iBooks then the intel Macs. :D How long have you been using Macs?
 
My whole life, I have never owned anything else although through school I have good expirence with Windows as well. I am currently twenty years old. Growing up with a Mac was good, I can also say that my family has never owned anything but Mac since my parents were married.
 
Two years and one month to be exact. My parents have used Windows for all their life so we had PCs at home. I had no choice back then (I'm only 17 now). The iMac I bought in 2009 was the first Mac in the house and also my first totally own computer. Now I have MBA along with the iMac and my sister has a MacBook. Dad also bought an iPad couple of weeks ago.
 
benhollberg said:
My whole life, I have never owned anything else although through school I have good expirence with Windows as well. I am currently twenty years old. Growing up with a Mac was good, I can also say that my family has never owned anything but Mac since my parents were married.
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Part of the reason I've always and probably always will use Macs is because every computer in my house was a Mac my whole life, and still is.
 
I don't know how old I was but I think I was in my mid to late 20s and got a Mac Se hand me down from my father-in-law.
 
My first Mac was a PowerMac 120. Got it in '96. Used an LC II before that. My first Apple Computer was the Apple IIE at the school I taught at. That was 1980 something. I've never owned a Windows PC.

Dale
 
My first computer was an old Mac (sometime in the early 1990's) then our family bought PC'S after that.

Then we got one of the first iMacs (2000). For the years following I was still switching between Mac and PC. In 2007 I switched completely over to Mac. No turning back!
 
Since about July 2009 my old emac. Then I got my iMac last September which was a nice boost in speed.
 
Merthyrboy said:
Since about July 2009 my old emac. Then I got my iMac last September which was a nice boost in speed.
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I still have an old eMac that runs, I can't believe I used that thing, it is cool to have still but I hope I never have to use it again.
 
As an owner, only two years. My current iMac is the first Mac I bought after 16 yrs with Windows. However, I learned how to use computers as a kid on old Macintosh Classics and other assorted Mac computers (Performa, Apple IIe and tangerine orange iMac G3s in high school).
 
My first Mac, an iMac 24" Alu, was purchased at the young age of 68.

HAL just turned 3 in February, and I'm typing on his little chicklets right now.

Damn, you kids is ****ing young. :D
 
Used the old Apple II's in grade school. My mother worked for Digital so got us a hookup on a cheap Windows boxes for the home and was using those machines until college when I bought my first mac. Haven't looked back.
 
Fall of 1997 - I started Grad School and the whole department was Mac. I replaced my trusty Compaq Contura Aero 25/4 (yes, that 25 Mhz/4 MB of RAM) with a PowerBook G3 266 Wallstreet. Love that laptop. In fact, it's sitting right here. I use it every once in a while to access some older files I need.
 
About 22 years ago, I got a Macintosh Plus 512K in around 1989 and was that the coolest toy around. I opened it up for some reason and the inside of the case was signed by all the people who were involved in its creation.
 
First used a Mac at school in 1994. I later bought an old 68K machine but my first real, up-to-date Mac was an iBook in 2003.
 
Saw and used a Mac for the first time in 1985, daily use in 1986 in my first job.

T'was a "fat Mac" with 512k (yep not even a meg!) of RAM, and a super-sweet external floppy drive... Hard drives for the Mac didn't show up at the workplace until... 1987?

Saving "long" documents (25-40 pages) could take minutes.

Fun times, but I don't miss them much.
 
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