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OH god, i'm addicted!!
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I love the flower power iMacs
I would *love* to see a MacBook flower power one
I loved the old Mac's, they were so fun, now they're just boring like all the other PC's out there
Gotta love 
It's my mom's fault. She was an art teacher and would bring home her old macs.
Had IIsi, Quadra, bondi Blue iMac, Indigo iMac, and my current Al. iMac. I swear there was one before the IIsi but I was too young to know.
All of them still work except for the bondi blue iMac as the CRT died about 7 years ago. We gave away the IIsi a while ago to charity.
Talk about reliable machines. I haven't had a problem with the indigo iMac and it was used heavily for 7 years. It's my mom's machine now. I think we put our mac repair man out of business. No more norton utilities.
It's my mom's fault. She was an art teacher and would bring home her old macs.
Had IIsi, Quadra, bondi Blue iMac, Indigo iMac, and my current Al. iMac. I swear there was one before the IIsi but I was too young to know.
All of them still work except for the bondi blue iMac as the CRT died about 7 years ago. We gave away the IIsi a while ago to charity.
Talk about reliable machines. I haven't had a problem with the indigo iMac and it was used heavily for 7 years. It's my mom's machine now. I think we put our mac repair man out of business. No more norton utilities.
i wish my mbp was that reliable
i have a 3 1/2 month old macbook pro
first, the keyboard and tackpad died
then isight stopped working (loose connection, not yet bothered to get fixed)
and now the case has started electrocuting me
but id rather live with that than go back to pcs
for example, i have a vista desktop. i turned it on, and logged on
just after i had logged on and waiting for it to load, i turned on my mac
the mac loaded, i logged on and was using safari before the vista pc had even finished loading my user account!!!
shutting down is even worse, i can shutdown and startup my Al-imac24 into Leopard in the same time, the same machine running bootcamp takes to shutdown from XP.
as to the actual topic in hand, im in the same boat as everyone else, the insiduous Apple technology just seems to proliferate like a *gasp* virus. I mean 4 years ago, i had 4 Wintel machines... and a very nice lady whom I shall forever be grateful gave me a brand new iBook as she was such an advocate of Apple.
Now I own that original iBook G4, a MacBook, a 24" Al-iMac, and iPod 3G, and an iPhone. So there's only one Wintel machine in the house belonging to my nearest and dearest and she loves the iMac so much it's only a matter of time before that gets replaced.
To me there is no contest.
This about sums it up for me, anyone who approaches a Mac with an open mind, just gets it once the overwhelming urge to do things the Microshaft way is overcome (perhaps I should coin a phrase here, Microshaft-Apple Switchover Inertia (tm)). Once the hard part of un-learning the MS-isms is overingrained after years of futile clicking and waiting is achieved and the Apple koolaid is drunk, there's no turning back.
In my experience, switchers seem to realise how much of their life was spent just nurse maiding windows systems and not getting work/play things done. My macs have more than repaid their costs in terms of hours not being spent fixing the windows systems they replaced. Even the iPhone has made my life so much easier, and the best is still yet to come from Apple on that front.
Namaste Steve.
The only way to go...as I am getting ready to paypal out of mine for a used 80 gb Ipod classic I found on the Market Place!!
Turn your whole house into a museum of apple
I'd go! lol
Great idea! I think I might!! Here's a cool shot of where I keep my new Mac mini!
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I found this for you in https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/193491/I would *love* to see a MacBook flower power one
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He he he I can't work out why people gave it a hard time on the linked thread - it isn't as thought its any worse than the gaudy white which is a smudge magnet.
I've been a huge fan of Apple products for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, I have not owned Macs for long.
I bought my first Mac about 6 years ago (I'm currently 23), and it was a G3 400MHz Blue iMac, but sold it quite soon after becuase I didn't feel it was for me. I'd still always had this burning desire to buy another mac.
Then about 2 years ago (just as the intel iMac's came out), I bought a G5 20" iMac and loved it. I couldn't believe how much better they are than I ever expected. Unfortunately, I had to sell it again because I was offered a place at university on an IT degree so needed a PC.
I bought a G4 Powerbook last summer and again, loved it and used it none stop (til my girlfriend started drooling over it and pinched it) and, then she had an accident with it before christmas and my insurance company have today replaced it with a 2.2GHz MBP.
In addition, I own a silver 80GB iPod Classic and a 16GB iPod Touch.
I'm also waiting anxiously to see what's released at MacWorld and if any significant changes are made to the MBP, I will be selling my new one and buying the updated model. I am also looking to replace my Windoze PC with a mac desktop (but can't decide between an iMac or a Mac Pro)
Apple products are so addictive, purely because they are so well made, well designed, and SO SEXY!
I bought my first Mac about 6 years ago (I'm currently 23), and it was a G3 400MHz Blue iMac, but sold it quite soon after becuase I didn't feel it was for me. I'd still always had this burning desire to buy another mac.
Then about 2 years ago (just as the intel iMac's came out), I bought a G5 20" iMac and loved it. I couldn't believe how much better they are than I ever expected. Unfortunately, I had to sell it again because I was offered a place at university on an IT degree so needed a PC.
I bought a G4 Powerbook last summer and again, loved it and used it none stop (til my girlfriend started drooling over it and pinched it) and, then she had an accident with it before christmas and my insurance company have today replaced it with a 2.2GHz MBP.
In addition, I own a silver 80GB iPod Classic and a 16GB iPod Touch.
I'm also waiting anxiously to see what's released at MacWorld and if any significant changes are made to the MBP, I will be selling my new one and buying the updated model. I am also looking to replace my Windoze PC with a mac desktop (but can't decide between an iMac or a Mac Pro)
Apple products are so addictive, purely because they are so well made, well designed, and SO SEXY!
Don't even get me started...
I'm a high school student that has been blessed with apple products since I was 3 years old. Here's what my family and I had from when I was 3 on:
--macintosh ll
--macintosh classic
--powerbook 100
--Macintosh Quadra 800
--Power Macintosh 7600
--(2) PowerBook g3 Series (rev. 2) -- I believe this was called the wallstreet edition
--(2) imac g3's
--powermac g3
--(3) powermac g4's (my first computer that I could call my own)
--Sold mine to get the quicksilver g4, dad sold his g4 and his wallstreet to get a powerbook g4 1.33 GHz and a 1G ipod
--Dad sold his stuff to get a 1.67 GHz powerbook g4 w/ an ipod photo, then a 5G ipod. Sold those to finally get a 2.33 GHz mbp c2d and a 160GB ipod classic.
--Sold my comp to get a nice toy to play with -- a compaq presario
--Quickly sold that off, went without a comp for a bit, then finally raised enough cash a little over a year ago from my after-school job to buy a 2.16 mbp c2d and a 5.5G 30GB ipod, which is my current setup, and what I expect to be my setup for another 3 years or so (until they release the 3G iphone, that is).
How's that for an love story?
I'm a high school student that has been blessed with apple products since I was 3 years old. Here's what my family and I had from when I was 3 on:
--macintosh ll
--macintosh classic
--powerbook 100
--Macintosh Quadra 800
--Power Macintosh 7600
--(2) PowerBook g3 Series (rev. 2) -- I believe this was called the wallstreet edition
--(2) imac g3's
--powermac g3
--(3) powermac g4's (my first computer that I could call my own
)--Sold mine to get the quicksilver g4, dad sold his g4 and his wallstreet to get a powerbook g4 1.33 GHz and a 1G ipod
--Dad sold his stuff to get a 1.67 GHz powerbook g4 w/ an ipod photo, then a 5G ipod. Sold those to finally get a 2.33 GHz mbp c2d and a 160GB ipod classic.
--Sold my comp to get a nice toy to play with -- a compaq presario
--Quickly sold that off, went without a comp for a bit, then finally raised enough cash a little over a year ago from my after-school job to buy a 2.16 mbp c2d and a 5.5G 30GB ipod, which is my current setup, and what I expect to be my setup for another 3 years or so (until they release the 3G iphone, that is
).How's that for an
love story? 
My problem is, I don't like keeping my computers for that long. I usually keep them for a year and then sell them and replace them (although, I have had my Windoze PC for over a year now and just upgraded a few parts).
My aim for the next few months is to find a desktop that I can keep for years and use as my main system for most of it's time and then maybe 3 years down the road, buy a replacement and use the 3yr old desktop as a spare or as a server
My aim for the next few months is to find a desktop that I can keep for years and use as my main system for most of it's time and then maybe 3 years down the road, buy a replacement and use the 3yr old desktop as a spare or as a server
I have worked on PC's since I was about 9 or 10, and by work. I mean I helped my Dad build them. He trained me to become a PC programer just like him. He was so proud the day I wrote my first C program. So needless to say he cried a little the day I came home with my macbook pro. To see us sitting there, it was hard for him. I know in time he will adjust though. I am his son after all, and hell give me a year and I will have him and my mom working on an iMac.
All i can say is, I have never found a company that puts so much thought into a product. If you want to read a good book about this devotion, read Options by Fake Steve Jobs. It chronicles some of the intensive devotion that went into the creation of the greatest thing that has ever come earth, the iPhone. (No really, that book is hilarious and a must read for any mac fan)
-Josh
(Happily Addicted to Technology Despite many of Girlfriends' Protests since I first touched a computer!... Happily Addicted to Apple since I first used my friends G4 iMac in 2002)
All i can say is, I have never found a company that puts so much thought into a product. If you want to read a good book about this devotion, read Options by Fake Steve Jobs. It chronicles some of the intensive devotion that went into the creation of the greatest thing that has ever come earth, the iPhone. (No really, that book is hilarious and a must read for any mac fan)
-Josh
(Happily Addicted to Technology Despite many of Girlfriends' Protests since I first touched a computer!... Happily Addicted to Apple since I first used my friends G4 iMac in 2002)
i know how you feel mr. silbeej. i just got my Touch 2 weeks ago. got my macbook 2 days ago. apple is the sheeiit! i have to force myself to go to sleep by downing a bunch of antihistamine....it's great! goodbye i say, goodbye to PCs forever.
I still remember the 1st Macintosh I used, nothing like it when it came out, still get a buzz with products.
Roll on MWSF08 and hopefully a new MBP
products.Roll on MWSF08 and hopefully a new MBP
It's quite alarming that I remember seeing one of those machines screan when I was shopping with my Nan (it was when I was about 13 which was 10 years ago). It's alarming how far mac's have come since then.
Man, I wish I wasn't such a poor student. Every time I think about the new iMacs I start lusting after one. I got my first mac about 7 or 8 months ago and I love it more every day.
I can't believe I used to mock my dad for using macs (he has a couple of power macs still).
I can't believe I used to mock my dad for using macs (he has a couple of power macs still).
Like many other people, the iPod was my first encounter with Apple. My friend had a 3rd gen one and I was jealous beyond words. I remember the sheer amazement at just how nice the packaging was when I got my very own one. After using the iPod (a G5) I started to surf eBay for an old iMac G3. I had that for about 6 weeks but with the lack of easy availability of an AirPort card it was soon sent to relatives for a better home
At the start of this year I bought a 1.42GHz eMac from eBay again and was amazed at how much better it was than the G3. It was like a G3 Snow (which I loved the look of) on steroids.
In the November of this year got my first *new* Mac, a SR MacBook; and I love it. It is easily the best and most powerful computer I've ever used. And for Christmas I recieved an 8GB iPod touch. So for now my Apple set is complete and if I could only shift this eMac I could put the money toward an iBook or Mac mini to replace it as the torrent box, which, if any of you have an old computer lying around, is fabulous to have
At the start of this year I bought a 1.42GHz eMac from eBay again and was amazed at how much better it was than the G3. It was like a G3 Snow (which I loved the look of) on steroids.
In the November of this year got my first *new* Mac, a SR MacBook; and I love it. It is easily the best and most powerful computer I've ever used. And for Christmas I recieved an 8GB iPod touch. So for now my Apple set is complete and if I could only shift this eMac I could put the money toward an iBook or Mac mini to replace it as the torrent box, which, if any of you have an old computer lying around, is fabulous to have