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List Your 30 Years of Mac

If you get MacBook and you want long term, make sure you get a uni-body minimum!

The reason is, that the trackpad will last longer with uni-body. It's the clicks mainly, prior models before that don't tend to last longer than 4-5 years of use.

Good luck
 
Mine is an Amiga -> Windows -> Mac -> Windows -> Mac -> Windows story! :eek:
But I do still own an iBook :)

  • Amiga 500 (shared family PC - circa 1990)
  • Custom built PC running Win 95 (shared family PC - mid 90s)

  • A 12" HP laptop (~ 1998, first computer I owned - gift from parents for use during undergrad studies)
  • A 15" Systemax laptop (~ 2002, first computer I bought myself - used during postgrad studies)

  • Black Macbook (~2007, iPod halo effect + unreliability of system sleep on Win XP laptops)
  • Dell XPS Studio laptop (~2008, returned due to flaky Vista drivers)
  • Toshiba laptop (~2008, returned due to shocking battery life)
  • Macbook Pro (~ 2009, fed up with difficulty finding a decent Windows machine)
  • Sony Vaio laptop (~2010, returned due to loud fans)
  • iBook G4 (ebay purchase, needed to run some old Power PC applications. Still own this machine)
  • ThinkPad X220 (~ 2012, first Windows laptop I've been truly satisfied with. My current machine)
  • Macbook Air (late 2013 - seduced by the battery life - but quickly returned after confirming I'm a PC!)
 
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OK, let me see if I can recall everything:

- Apple ][c, my first real computer purchased in 1985 as I left for college. It was my primary computer until 1991.
- Quadra 650; bought in the spring of 1993, was my first Mac.
- Performa 52XX (I don't recall the exact model number since it was an "education model"- maybe a 5260?)
- Performa 6400
- Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics)
- Power Mac G5
- iMac 24" (early 2008)
- Macbook Pro 13" (mid 2010)
- iMac 27" (late 2013)

Every time I upgraded I thought I'd died and gone to heaven given the improvements in speed and performance.
 
2008 iMac Al

Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz

On it now, and still using Leopard vanilla. :D
 
It's too hard to list them all because it would require me to research to remember model names. :p Let's just say I started in 1984 with a Apple IIe, the first Mac was a Performa about 1993, and since then I've always owned an Mac and it adds up to about 10 models, the most recent in my signature.
 
mid or late 80s: Commodore 64 (parents)
early 90s: locally built PC (parents; 386 later upgraded to 486DX4-100--zoom zoom)
1996: PowerMac 5400 120MHz (college computer; hated it--I was a PC guy... grew to love it and hate PCs)
1999: AMS Tech Wintel laptop (for study abroad... POS, but PowerBooks were way too expensive)
2000: G3 iMac DV SE 500MHz (graphite)
2005: G5 iMac 2.0GHz 17-inch (wow, made this one last a long time)
2011: MacBook Pro 13-inch

18 years and only 4 Macs? Oh well. At least I've covered most of their major design phases: beige -> translucent -> white -> aluminum :D

almost forgot that I also had a pizza box Quadra (605?) for a while, which I used as a router to share dial-up among college roommates for a year
 
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Nice thread! Here's mine:

1996: 90 MHz Pentium pc (with whopping 256MB hard drive:D)
1997: 133 MHz Pentium pc, used it to play DOOM, GTA, stuff like that. Barely played the Sims back in 2000
2001: 1,4GHz AMD Athlon 2 custom built-pc (played a LOT of MS Flight Simulator on this)
2005: 3,8 GHz Dell Dimension pc (sold it a year later)
2005: PowerMac G4 400MHz (never owned but borrowed this briefly, got me hooked on Mac)
2006: iMac 17" 2,0 C2D (sold in 2010 to buy a MBP)
2007: white MacBook 1,83 CD (sold in 2008 to buy a MBP :D)
2008: MacBook Pro 15" 2,2GHz C2D (died in 2010 due to GeForce 8600 failure)
2010: MacBook Pro 13" 2,4GHz C2D :cool: still using this computer!
2010: Mac mini 2,4GHz C2D (gift from parents, basically the exact same computer as my MBP)

2014: Hopefully a Haswell i7 Quad Mac mini to get a smoother FCPX experience. My current Macs are just barely up to the task. Will probably sell the MBP and keep the old mini as a server or backup.
 
TRS-80 Model I
Apple //e
ImageWriter
Macintosh IIci
LaserWriter II
Power Macintosh 8500/120
LaserWriter Select 360
LaserWriter 16/600 PS
PowerMac G4/400 (Gigabit Ethernet)
iBook/500 (Dual USB)
PowerMac G5/Dual 2.0GHz
PowerBook G4 (12-inch 1.33GHz)
Mac Pro (Early 2008)
MacBook (13-inch Early 2008, Black)
MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013)

Not counting my eMate 300, iPods, iPhones, and iPads.
 
1985-1991 Commodore 64 (at least two)
1991-1994 Mac Classic
1994-1998 Mac IIsi,
1998-2003 Power Mac 6500
1990-2001 PowerBook 140
2001-2003 iBook G3
2003-2006 PowerBook “Pizmo"
2005-2008 iBook G4
2008-Present MacBook ’08
2009-Present MacBook '09
2012-Present MacBook ’10
 
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