First computer was a mac, then a total of 4 windows computers....
First mac: very early 90s....pre 1994. dont really remember what it even looked like! Probably a performa 68k, possibly the early all in one version.
Then to PC...ugh.
First, and most reliable out of all of them was my Compaq Presario desktop, late 1996. Intel Pentium (no numbers) at 166-200MHz. Windows 95.
My first laptop came in 1999, and holds a place in my heart my MBP can never quite fill the same way- you never forget your first. Compaq Presario 15" notebook, black with blue lid, 6GB HD, Pentium III 700MHz, I think it had 128 or 256 RAM. DVD player too about a year before the PS2 brought DVDs into more households
The thing it had, besides the best latching mech of any laptop i had or saw until the MBP and the best styling too, was a killer advantage i've never seen equaled on *any* laptop i've used since.
That was its speakers. I wish the MBP had them- it would be 150% PERFECT then. They were JBL Pro speakers, huge....covering a lot of the palm rest, but the killer was on the front were two small subwoofers. if you were playing a DVD cover one up and you'd see just how much they really did. Wow. I have never had that quality of sound again in a portable device.
That one lasted me from late 1999 to i'd say late 2002.
During the time period from 1996 when I got my first PC, to 2001, I was still able to use mac at school- first on the edu versions of the Performa 5200 series, later on the first iMacs- blueberry, then indigo. teacher had a PM G3 with studio display, then PM G4 Sawtooth or Gb Ethernet, and finally a G4 cube, with an array of studio displays. They were gorgeous and I never forgot them.
When that died, I got a much worse Toshiba with a 2.4GHz P4. Yuck. Hated it. Windows XP up from 98. Disaster. That died twice and became so unusable that after a year and a half I dumped it and got an HP with a 3.2GHz P4 and 15" widescreen. that one lasted me from 9/04 to 4/06. It was a monster- about 10 pounds, sans power adapter. Most of that poor computer's life was spent with store.apple.com on the links bar, visited regularly. As soon as the MBP was announced its life was essentially over.
And since April I have had my soul saved once again. I don't regret it for an instant, nearly 5 months in and i'm running OS X more productively than I ever ran windows.
