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What convinced you to Apple?

Ive always loathed windows, but cost was stopping me from getting a Mac. Yes, pound for pound a Mac is a much better deal, but the windows machines get you because they offer their crappy sub-$500 machines, which is hard for most people to resist.

I finally made the jump when I got an expense account with free reign. Ive never looked back!
 
I was convinced at a young age when my brother brought home our first computer, an Apple //e in 1983. Growing up with Apple machines in the house (later he upgraded to an SE/30) pretty much sold me from the get-go. After he moved out I built my own PC and used that for a while, but happily returned to the Mac world with my G4 iMac which served me extremely well up until I sold it and bought a new 24" iMac in December. :cool:
 
Not too long after the switch to Intel. By that time I was just bored with Windows and was looking for something fresh. When I found out that Macs could also run Windows, it was really a no brainer. I'm glad I made the switch.
 
Grasbak said:
When we first started getting computers in school we have BBC Micros then BBC Archithingies ... - we also had 1 mac! For people like me we wanted Amigas - i had the 500 then the 1200.
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We had Archimedes at school too. God they were crap! :D

Nice to meet another (ex) Amiga fan too. I had a 500+ and then a 1200 purely for games. God I loved those machines.
 
I remember looking for a new iPod at the Apple website, and then seeing on Apple's home page: "Watch Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone at Macworld San Fransisco". After watching that keynote, I fell in love with the Apple brand. Everything Apple just looked so amazing. I watched the Summer August Mac event last year, and I really found iWork and iLife incredible. A bit later, I fell in love with the iPod Touch after watching the September iPod keynote. It was so easy to access Youtube on it, I found myself watching dozens of clips from Apple keynotes and then Steve Jobs and his keynotes tempted me to wanting one sooo badly. I couldn't really just tell me parents I wanted a new computer though. They'd obviously say no. It wasn't until my parents told me that my sister would need my laptop for university that I had an excuse to buy one. :D
 
For me I was on a dell dimension desktop. I was on MSN and got in contact with a guy who loved Macs very much. He introduced me to Apple and Macs. I never knew they existed. Ever. So then when he showed me Tiger I flipped and said I HAVE TO HAVE IT! So.... I switched May 24, 2006 at around lunch time. :D Best day ever.
 
I was convinced to return to Apple on the day they announced the release of the Intel iMac, knowing that the day when I could run the Windows apps that I require was a short time away.

Beautiful. Quiet. Powerful. The serenity of OS X versus the pinball-machine like environment afforded by Windows.
 
I ran Windows ME on a old Compaq tower for a few years. So I had to switch or else I would just go insane.
 
The iPod Touch was my first Apple product.

As for computers, I always liked HP, then I got an Acer. I upgraded from Windows XP to Vista. Didn't have hardly any problems with Vista. The computer was very slow in starting up, but that's Windows. LoL

But I made the switch to my 24" iMac back in June. It was a scary one since I had no clue on the Mac, but I won't go back to PC. Never!

I love my :apple:
 
I got an ipod and it completely blew me away. I always felt like you had to compromise when dealing with gadgets and computers so the ipod "whole/fully satisfying" experience rocked the foundation i had based my electronic life on. Then vista just solidified that i was still living in the in the rock ages and that i didnt have to put up with this- i had a choice. Got the latest imac and haven't made a smarter choice since.
 
I was sold at the Apple II. I used it in the mid-90s because my school was too poor and could only afford 15 Apple IIs and 15 of those all-in-one PowerMacs.

Of course, I never got one until I got an iBook three years ago as part of a contest. After doing maintenance work on iMacs from the early 2000s, I'm glad I waited so long to get a Mac--those old Macs are quite awful. Two years ago, in that same contest, I got a MacBook and I've been satisfied ever since.

I'm not sure I would buy a new Mac though; may of them are overpriced and underpowered (ahem Macbook cough).
 
back in 1996 or so, my parents wanted to get a computer... my uncle recommended apple, and a performa 6400 is how I got started
 
I was bored with Windows XP and I wanted a new toy.

Vista was launched devoid of they promised killer features.

Mac switched to Intel, added BootCamp and Parallels came out, making for a risk free switch.

OS X Leopard promised everything I wanted in an OS.

So I switched, spending far more money than I should have :) on a high-end laptop, new wireless route, WinXP (yep, Mac got me to pay for Windows) and Parallels.

It's been fun and games ever since. Keynote is outstanding; I've enjoyed using that in my Toastmasters club. Numbers is great for modest personal tasks. iLife 08 is also fun to dabble with. And Parallels / BootCamp fills in the gaps (like VPN connection to work, personal finance, and games)
 
The straw that broke the camels back for me was the fact that I work with Windows XP all day long. My end users, in spite of my best efforts manage to get spyware and virus' on the workstations. While I never have this problem myself with Windows XP, smart browsing, the use of firefox and whatnot I decided why bother even being at risk.

Combined with Apple's move to Intel architecture sealed the deal.
 
Apple didn't convince me as much as Vista repelled me. When my old cheap laptop broke down it was either get a new laptop and trash the OS and get a Linux distro, or give Apple a try, and I chose apple. I'm glad I did, I'm extremely satisfied so far, it suits my needs perfectly.
 
I was going into college, and didn't need a specific type of OS for my program. (Motive Power Service Management). So basically i just needed a laptop for personal use and word processing for school. Was looking at a vaio, but then stumbled onto apple.com while updating my iPod nano.

I was intrigued by the macbook pro, but I definatly couldn't afford it. I had never used a mac before..and just figured it was time for something new. :)
As long as it would work with my iPod (no surprise there) I was happy.
 
I really wanted a G3 iMac and the original 5GB iPod, and later the G4 iMac. I was 13 at the time though, and my dad wouldn't let me get a Mac--he said it wouldn't be compatible with anything. Instead, I wound up spending all of my savings ($1000) on building my own PC. After 2 years, the PC was already falling apart. It was loud, unreliable, and needed 3 reformats in 2 years using Win2K. And the most ironic thing was, Win2K wasn't compatible with a LOT of programs anyways!

My dad's own Dell laptop (which he spent $1800 on!) needed 3 new hard drives, a new keyboard, and yearly reformats. The other Dells in his lab were also terrible and constantly breaking.

My dad eventually realized how much trouble I was having with Wintel and bought me a 12" Powerbook after I worked for him for a summer after my sophomore year of high school. I haven't gone back since, and the PB is still my main machine. I bring it back and forth to my internship every day and do a huge amount of work on it, and at school I'm always using it to take lecture notes (using OmniOutliner), write papers, etc.

I actually just acquired a G3 Snow iMac identical to the one I originally wanted to buy over 6 years ago. I'm writing this on the iMac right now, in OS9 :D
 
Nothing. Nada. Back in 1985 I found myself using a Macintosh at school (yep floppy boot n all) and I was hooked.

I had a Mac IIci in 1990 but I had to get a PC for uni/work.... spent many unhappy years beating my head against the window ;) then this year, I finally had enough and went back full throttle.

Happy now - thanks Steve.
 
Reading what I could find on the apple website, talking to the people at the store (charlotte) and reading what you all have written here on macrumors.

I haven't regretted it and yesterday standing in line in Charleston I changed someone elses mind on getting mac versus another windows pc. :D
 
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