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mrsir2009

macrumors 604
Original poster
Sep 17, 2009
7,505
156
Melbourne, Australia
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?
 

benhollberg

macrumors 68020
Mar 8, 2010
2,170
7
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.
 

Hellhammer

Moderator emeritus
Dec 10, 2008
22,164
582
Finland
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.
 

mrsir2009

macrumors 604
Original poster
Sep 17, 2009
7,505
156
Melbourne, Australia
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.

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.
 

maflynn

macrumors Haswell
May 3, 2009
73,419
43,307
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.
 

Designer Dale

macrumors 68040
Mar 25, 2009
3,950
100
Folding space
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
 

okrelayer

macrumors 6502a
May 25, 2008
983
4
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!
 

Merthyrboy

macrumors 6502
Jul 21, 2008
490
3
Since about July 2009 my old emac. Then I got my iMac last September which was a nice boost in speed.
 

benhollberg

macrumors 68020
Mar 8, 2010
2,170
7
Since about July 2009 my old emac. Then I got my iMac last September which was a nice boost in speed.

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.
 

Reventon

macrumors 6502
Jan 31, 2009
490
0
Toronto, ON
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).
 

iJohnHenry

macrumors P6
Mar 22, 2008
16,530
30
On tenterhooks
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
 

gameface

macrumors 6502
Sep 11, 2010
472
0
Boston, MA
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.
 

ejb190

macrumors 65816
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.
 

PigDog

macrumors member
Jul 18, 2002
69
0
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.
 

Nermal

Moderator
Staff member
Dec 7, 2002
20,595
3,936
New Zealand
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.
 

smithrh

macrumors 68030
Feb 28, 2009
2,722
1,730
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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