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How many teenagers have their own computer?

The Performa 550 was the family computer bought in the mid 90's. The iMac is also a family computer bought in '99. I was the main user besides my late mother. Tried to teach my father about Mac OS. No go there. My very own computer, the PB, was not purchased until I was 22. Probably still considered a teenager in some people's minds.
 
i've had 3 laptops since I was 11
first was a hp laptop then my mom spilled tea on it, I was so devasted that I cried for 2 weeks because I paid 3/4 of it from doing car washes in my neighborhood and it took a long time haha

then since my mom felt kind of bad she went out and bought me a compaq presairo which I had for 3 years then it got really slow for some reason and so I stopped using it and used my parent's computers which pissed them off so they said they would buy me a powerbook for chirstmas :) and they did :)
but they said this is my last computer for a VERY LONG TIME lol
 
I do.

1. iBook G4 1.42GHz 1.5GB 80GB 14" Screen - Main - Laptop - Tiger
2. iBook G4 1.42GHz 512MB 80GB 14" Broken Screen - Server - Don't ask why it broke. - Tiger
3. iMac G5 1.9GHz 512 (soon to be 1.5GB) 160GB 17" - Main - Powerhouse :D - Tiger
4. iMac G3 500MHz 256MB 80GB - Backup - Panther - Graphite
5. iBook G3 300MHz 160MB - OS 9.2 Machine - a hand me down :eek: - Classic - Tangerine
6. Compaq Pressario SR1010v 2.7GHz (celeron) 1.5GB 80GB - Win XP Pro SP2

Paid for EVERYTHING except for number 5. I used to have a PC (athlon xp 3200+, 1gb, 200gb but my mom took it away and gave me 500 bucks - the PC that I bought was worth 1,300 bucks - i basically got ripped off - anyway, that's how i got the imac)

1. is a replacement for the one that my step mom broke. Here is how.
2. Old ibook
3. Already explained
4. bought off eBay for 80 bucks :D
5. hand me down
6. My PC that i got for 400 - then i got upgrades - ram, graphics, etc

How did I pay for them? MOWING. :D

EDIT: oh yeah, pics of the entire setup is in my sig - "Picture of my Setup and Server"
 
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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I think that's very true. I'm 18 now, and from what I recall when I was in 7th and 8th grade (damn that was a long time ago...), everyone had a family computer in their living room or kitchen...I can't think of any of my friends who had their own computer at that point, but now it seems that everyone has their own computer.

Ah well, times change.
 
I have a dual 2.0ghz with 2gb ram, 2 17" LCDs, bluetooth mouse and keyboard, logitech 2.1 speakers, radeon 9800 pro...

I'm 16, the pmac and ram I paid for, the rest I got from my parents
 
20rogersc said:
When I first read it, I thought you had 17 computers :eek:

Trying to find a cheap powermac to add to my iBook at the moment.

::20ROGERSC::
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Actually, (in addition to having turned 17 yesterday :D) I probably do have 17 computers - but most of them are old, "museum" pieces. It seems whenever anyone around town gets rid of a Mac, it somehow ends up at my house. I'm pretty well known around town as the mac guy - but keep in mind this is a small town. :) Most of those macs are are old, though - 80s and early 90s models.

The only systems I really use, though, are my iBook and G5. The older macs are more collectors items than anything else.
 
I've got a 12 inch Powerbook 1.33 GHz 1.256 GB RAM, and my family recently got a quad 2.5GHz Powermac, but nobody else hardly uses it other than me, so its mainly mine!
 
Got an Bondi Blue iMac that was "mine" (in name only). Upgraded it, placed it in my room running Panther. Not that great for my uses. About to buy a Mac Mini as soon as an updates comes and when I have money! Perhaps a G5 if my parents really decided to give me an extra $500 when I buy my machine.

17 years old over here.
 
I have a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 PC with an overclocked Geforce FX 5200 (128 MB VRAM) and 512 MB of system RAM. 120 GB hard drive, DVD-RW.

My laptop is a Pismo running Panther. I use it for college.

I'm 17. I'm planning to buy a Mac Mini next year and if it has a decent GPU and the drivers can be written so that I can install Windows and use the GPU, it'll replace my current PC.
 
I got a computer when I was 17, of course it was already 6 and a half years old, so count me out of the spoiled group. Although, my parents did buy me a $25 Kmart desk for it....
 
AP_piano295 said:
i do paid fore my ibook all by myself i dont even have allowance
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Wow, the spelling and grammar police would have a field day with that post... :p ;)

I think this is a good point though - many teenagers who are spoiled get whatever they want from their parents and do not respect the value of money and of expensive devices like this. I think it's great for teenagers to buy items like this with their own money to truly appreciate the value of a dollar, and their own money in general, not someone else's. Far too many kids have it to easy these days, and they'll pay for it later on in life. :cool:
 
lilstewart92 said:
I do.

1. iBook G4 1.42GHz 1.5GB 80GB 14" Screen - Main - Laptop - Tiger
2. iBook G4 1.42GHz 512MB 80GB 14" Broken Screen - Server - Don't ask why it broke. - Tiger
3. iMac G5 1.9GHz 512 (soon to be 1.5GB) 160GB 17" - Main - Powerhouse :D - Tiger
4. iMac G3 500MHz 256MB 80GB - Backup - Panther - Graphite
5. iBook G3 300MHz 160MB - OS 9.2 Machine - a hand me down :eek: - Classic - Tangerine
6. Compaq Pressario SR1010v 2.7GHz (celeron) 1.5GB 80GB - Win XP Pro SP2

Paid for EVERYTHING except for number 5. I used to have a PC (athlon xp 3200+, 1gb, 200gb but my mom took it away and gave me 500 bucks - the PC that I bought was worth 1,300 bucks - i basically got ripped off - anyway, that's how i got the imac)

1. is a replacement for the one that my step mom broke. Here is how.
2. Old ibook
3. Already explained
4. bought off eBay for 80 bucks :D
5. hand me down
6. My PC that i got for 400 - then i got upgrades - ram, graphics, etc

How did I pay for them? MOWING. :D

EDIT: oh yeah, pics of the entire setup is in my sig - "Picture of my Setup and Server"
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I didn't break it. The parent did.
 
runninmac said:
Ahh.... wow it is to late at night... i can't read worth crap. But I must say she must have been pretty T.O.ed
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All i'm going to say is some people have good side effects of alcohol, while others have bad. Doesn't matter the ammount in this case.
 
Well I'm not a teenager anymore (23 and in grad school). Lets take a trip down memory lane:

133 cyrix
first computer i remember using.

HP 333 mhz AMD K6-2 w/3d now!
8th or 9th grade, I cant remember which, was around the time of the Quake 2. I picked up an 8 mb Diamond Monster Voodoo2 shortly after(they had just came out)

Generic 600 mhz Athlon SLOT 1 prebuilt machine
had to be in the 10th grade. Moved the voodoo2 to it.

Compaq 733 mhz Pentium 3(most reliable machine to this day!)
11th or 12th grade. built in everything.

*some point between these times I went thru a Voodoo 5 5500 and a Geforce 2 GTS*

1st summer after college.
Home built 1.4 athlon socket, Prophet II Geforce 3 64 mb, 512 pc2600 i think ram. Had a hydraulic case which were what the alienwares were using at the time.
I had to go outt to the mall to buy the video card at the last minute to make it to a lan party that night.

2nd summer of college
Picked up a 2.4 ghz p4 compaq

3rd summer of college
picked up another 2.4 ghz p4 compaq
dell c610 laptop

4th summer of college
picked up a sony vaio laptop 1.5 ghz Pentium M

December of 5th year
Picked up a 1.5 ghz powerbook 1 gb ram. bluetooth, 128 mb ati.
January of 5th year
Sold it.

Summer before 6th year
Picked up Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC, 2 gb of ram, 2 ghz pentium M, bluetooth, 8x superdrive

November of this year(6th year)
Sold it to roomate

December of this year
Came into Quad 2.5 :)

Ah man, that was fun. Oh yea and at some point I came into possession of this Sony Vaio Imac looking thing. No idea when but it makes a great clock.
 
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