What made you buy your first mac?

[edesignuk]

Had enough of windows!

I bought my first Mac a couple of years ago, a PowerMac G4 400Mhz 128Mb (Quickly upgraded to 512Mb!).
I had only really been using PC's since '96 but already windows was getting boring, a Mac was the only way to go!
I have not been dissapointed with it either, OS 9 made a welcome and more stable change to Windows, and OS X seems great so far.
I am now after 2 years upgrading to a new Dual 1Ghz PowerMac and hope that this will serve me as well as my 400Mhz G4.

Rock on Apple!

 

[menoinjun]

I have always owned pc's but always used macs in school. I got really frustrated using the pcs and decided to splurge on a mac. I was doing graphics work in school, so I got a DP 533 for photoshop and FCP. I have used OS X exclusively since March 24 2001, and only booting classic when absolutely necessary. I am still impressed with the speed of my mac, and enjoy every minute I use it.

-Pete

 

[mcrain]

Wow, am I the only "non-mac" owner. I'm waiting to buy my first mac. I'm hoping for a speed bump in the tibook, and when that happens, I'm all over it.

Why, why you ask. Couple of reasons. Wintel blue screens of death, constant crashes and reboots, "safe mode" (-> nuff said), Windoze cost, lots of weird holes and slots on the pc laptops, PC's constantly being in need of an upgrade, Gates is the devil, and, oh, apple's have a really nice stable OS that runs on really nice well thought out machines.

 

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by mcrain
Wow, am I the only "non-mac" owner. I'm waiting to buy my first mac. I'm hoping for a speed bump in the tibook, and when that happens, I'm all over it.

Why, why you ask. Couple of reasons. Wintel blue screens of death, constant crashes and reboots, "safe mode" (-> nuff said), Windoze cost, lots of weird holes and slots on the pc laptops, PC's constantly being in need of an upgrade, Gates is the devil, and, oh, apple's have a really nice stable OS that runs on really nice well thought out machines.

so u basically figured out that Windoze sucks then...is what u are saying?

 

[maclamb]

I bought my first mac while working at Applea s a contractor in 1992. It was a PB100 and I LOVED it - still think it wa sthe best thigh ever.
I was SO impressed withthe design, packaging, thoughtfulness, creativty, that when I got to the offic ethe next day I wrte an email to the group about my expereince.
Everyone came by and said "Congrats - you've been mac'ed"
Stayed that way through my first 601 based machine, then a PowerMac clone, then left apple for many years b/c NT/Win2k were more stable for what I was doing...
Came back last year for OSX (worked at NeXT and was waiting for the port to the mac) - bought an IBook - upgrade to a ti667 and recently bought a DP1G for work to replace the PMG4/400 they gave me.
must admit - OsX was designed to run on a DP.....

 

[crassusad44]

Re: Re: 1500

Originally posted by eyelikeart


thanks jef!

We're all waiting for Apple to break the 1.5 GHz barrier, but eye did it first.....

Now back to topic. I got my first Mac in '94. A Performa 450. I fell in love with Macs the year before, when playing with an LC with MacPain II and system 6.0.8...

Been addicted ever since, and now I'm roaming around with a DP 800!

 

[Biggles]

Ive grown up with Macs because my dad has always been a machead. I rarely even touched a PC before my school switched the macs to PC's (besides every once in a while at friends' houses). Well to me that was just about the worse thing they could have done. I had become so used to Mac OS that it felt like i was being infected with some disease whenever i touched those computers.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

I bought a Power Computing Power Tower Pro - does that count as a mac?

At the time it was much better than what was available from Apple. Now I'm on my 3rd machine, TiPB and I have a G4 450 Desktop (ordered one the first day they came out).

I look forward to a G5 someday....