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How many teenagers have their own computer?

- 12" PowerBook G4 1.5ghz, 768mb, 80gb, SuperDrive -paid $600 of it
- Dell 4550 P4/2.53GHz/512mb/30gb/DVD/CD-R/15" LCD - paid $0
- 500mhz iBook G3, 128mb, 10gb, CD-ROM (my print server) - got it for free

I also have...
Epson C86 -Free with PB
PhotoSmart 7760 - $0
LaserJet 1012 - paid for all of it
JBL Creatures -$0
21" ViewSonic CRT (not currently using due to massive size) - got for free
300gb Maxtor Ext. Hard Drive - $0
 
I have a mac mini. I paid for half of it, my parents paid for the rest as a birthday present :).
 
I didn't get my first computer until I was 22. I survived mooching off of friends and the computer science lab through college.

Hickman
 
When I was 16-17 my mother bought me an Acer 486 100mhz. Had it in my room for about a month until it was moved into the family room for everyone to use as I wasn't really interested in it (this was before we had internet).

Bought myself a Dell at 20 until I finally saw the light at 23 and bought my PowerBook. :)
 
i did -- my parents wanted my ass off their computer ( i was always scanning, editing photo, screwing around with videos) --- so he took me to the local mac dealer and told me to get what i needed

wow - looking at the current technology in the iMacs and even the Mac mini could have easily satisfied my needs back then

but getting the G4 400 with 312 megs of ram, an 18 gig scsi drive and all the little extras just so i could edit mini DV in Final cut pro 1.2 was a lot of money.

it's really an exiting time; now kids who are interested in video and photo can get a mac mini and final cut express which will blaze through that DV footage at speeds i could of only imagined at that time.

but i digress -- so yes i was a 15 year old with my own mac that was more powerful then the computers at the design consulting agency i freelanced for.

meh -- it happens
 
I have my iMac. It's supposed to be everyone's computer in the house, but they bought it mostly for me for my birthday, and I'm the only one who uses daily.
 
I think that the younger you are, the more likely you are to have had your own computer as a teenager. It seems like all of my little brother's friends have their own computers in their rooms, but when I was his age that was a little more rare. And when I think about when I was like 13 or 14, no one even seemed to think about having more than one family computer.
 
Got a 400 MHz Windows PC when I was 18 (free from parents). Didn't get my first Mac until 20 (paid for it myself).
 
16 years old - free from a family friend, Athelon 2500+ XP box w/ 512mb of RAM, 40GB hard drive...as for computers i want to use (mac) i have none that are mine ;)
 
SummerBreeze said:
I think that the younger you are, the more likely you are to have had your own computer as a teenager. It seems like all of my little brother's friends have their own computers in their rooms, but when I was his age that was a little more rare. And when I think about when I was like 13 or 14, no one even seemed to think about having more than one family computer.
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That's because computers are more widespread. Same thing with cars. Go back a hundred years, having just 1 was seen as a sign of great riches. Nowadays, not having at least one is seen as a sign of poverty
 
17 on Wednesday. At my office I use a Dual 2.5Ghz G5, pretty decked out for video editing - 900GB of storage (still need more :rolleyes: ), 1GB of RAM (another gig is on its way), Final Cut Studio. I paid for it with savings - but it quickly paid for itself thanks to the production jobs it scored me :D.

At home, school, and in general on the go I use a pretty basic iBook G4 - 1Ghz 12" model from August 2004, which I had CTO with a 60GB hard drive (again, for video editing).
 
I bought my PB in April for school and uni next year. Plus it was getting impossible to share our crappy dell family PC coz my brother and sister were always on it. I'm trying to convince them to get a Mac (hopefully an iMac)
 
my parents first bought me my own computer when i was 6 or 7, i think. Like 1996-97ish. And then a laptop when I was 11. And then from then on, I paid for part/most/all of the computers that were for me from then on. (you might consider me spoiled, but that's fine with me. my parents knew i loved computers, but they're not exactly cheap, so they'd skimp on everything else like birthday gifts and allowances to get me a computer for christmas...plus, i think they got tired of trying to figure out how to use Linux after i'd install it, hehe)

Right now my main machines are a 12" iBook (1.2ghz G4 from like a year ago), a desktop PC with gentoo linux (a64 3500+, whee! :D ), and a laptop someone gave to me a few days ago that I installed ubuntu on...it's like a 500mhz amd k6-3 or something completely insanely old that's about 2x my iBook in terms of size and weight.

most definitely waiting for intel 'Books before I buy one for uni ;) :rolleyes: :cool:
 
dubbz said:
.... Had a Intel 486DX2 66, while my friends not too much later got some Pentium 133MHz desktop.
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Nice, my first Mac was a plus, but I built a pc with this 486 with my dad. I remember going to the computer swapmeet to buy the parts. we even had Win. 3.11 (workgroups) to use on it. wow, that was a while ago.
 
Yeah. Can't count how many computers I have. Paid for the expensive ones, including this here G5, myself, and the others were acquired through a variety of means, mostly scrounging/compositing old ones.
 
Yup ive got my woderfully crappy dell pc that I fixed up from off the street that is actually pretty decent. I could afford to buy a decent mac but I could also save it and wait to get a mac for college which is what im planning on doing.
 
My first was an HP laptop at age 12, paid that one in full, then moved up to a 14" iBook G4 of the last revision. Also have a 12" iBook G3 that I paid for, and 8 or 9 PC's I've been collecting over the last few years from friends and neighbors.
 
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