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What version of OS X did you switch to the Mac with?

What version of OS X made you switch to the Mac?

  • 10.0

    Votes: 10 9.2%

  • 10.1

    Votes: 4 3.7%

  • 10.2

    Votes: 14 12.8%

  • 10.3

    Votes: 25 22.9%

  • 10.4

    Votes: 26 23.9%

  • 10.5

    Votes: 23 21.1%

  • 10.6

    Votes: 7 6.4%
  • Total voters
    109
I had an used PowerMac G3 (B&W) that I ran OS 9. I upgrade to Mac OS X 10.0, but still used a Windows-based computer as my primary computer. Two things made me ditch Windows completely. Jaguar (10.2) and iPod/iTunes combo. At that time the best experience using an iPod was with a Mac. Macs had a firewire port that the original iPod used as a connector. Windows was using MusicMatch (ahh...memories) at the time and you needed to install a firewire card. :eek:

After that, I stop using Windows full-time (at home). Work still use Windows, but not much I can do about that.
 
i switched to mac from Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2. the os of the day was Mac OS7.0 and it was on a Macintosh LC II.

all you recent switchers, only coming aboard with osx, shame on you, you'll never really appreciate how much of a step up it was from the classic os, which 10 years ago windows was still trying to copy, and boy was os9.2 a bad os version.

i really liked 7
 
millar876 said:
i switched to mac from Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2. the os of the day was Mac OS7.0 and it was on a Macintosh LC II.

all you recent switchers, only coming aboard with osx, shame on you, you'll never really appreciate how much of a step up it was from the classic os, which 10 years ago windows was still trying to copy, and boy was os9.2 a bad os version.

i really liked 7
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lol, shame? Some of us didn't even have computers until after OS X was out. I personally had a Windows 98 system back in 2000, but my first Mac was an iBook G4 that had Tiger on it that I bought in 2006. Upgraded every time (but now have a MacBook Pro and an iMac with a busted hard drive).
 
I'm 35, and I remember in January 1984 (8 years old for just a month) when we got our first Mac. Wish I still had it! Bought me own Mac in 1999. Grape iMac DV, 400Mhz G3, 256Mb installed (BTO) RAM, upped it to 512Gb myself, 10Gb HD, Slot load DVD player (not a burner), OS 9.04., then 9.1, 9.2, 9.2.2, was one of the lucky one's to receive OS X 10.0.0 for BETA testing. I've been a Mac fan since its release. Currently have that Grape G3 iMac, 2 17" C2D iMacs, Early 2008 15" & 17" MacBook Pros, last Black MacBook, brand new (January 2011) 13" MacBook Air w/ 2.13Ghz C2D, 256Gb SSD, 4Gb RAM. Yes, that is 7 working and functioning Macs. 2 iPhone 4's, 9 iPods, and my iPad 2 is currently (as of 10:28pm last night my time) is in Anchorage, AK with FedEx, expected delivery is Tuesday!!!!!!! http://store.apple.com/trackshipment/W245913338/468765264890
:apple:
 
Wow. This poll makes me feel old. I'm using Macs since version 7.5

We already had virtual memory, true type fonts, multithreading, aliases; we could open documents by draging them to the programm icon. It was all revolutionary back then.
 
mstrze said:
System 7 maybe?

(Flawed poll for us long-timers)
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i agree with this. i switched to os x at 10.1 i think but i have no idea the os of the first mac i used was as i have always had macs in my house. i think the first mac i had was system 7, a hand me down.
 
10.4.7 (Yes, I remember). I went from a Hewlett Packert Win98 machine to the first Intel iMac a week after its release. Haven't ever looked back. :D :apple:
 
I made the switch to mac and OS X during 2009, got a 15% educational discount around July, at the time 10.5 was being shipped on the macs but 10.6 had been announced so I got a free upgrade, all I had to pay was the p&p.

I actually switched from Ubuntu to OS X. I'd always intended to but it was a question of getting the funds together and getting away from Windows. Ubuntu was a fine OS but OS X was more seamless for my needs. I'd like to build a machine to run Ubuntu on as it's even better than when I used it at version 8.10.

I am still using my first mac, 13" Mid 2009 MBP 2.53ghz version.
 
I'd messed around with some of the classic OS versions using emulation etc, but my first real Mac was an iBook with 10.2. Would you believe that an iBook was the cheapest laptop that met my requirements? Apple's certainly changed since then :(
 
I never switched to Mac per se, I'm pure bred :p

The first OS I used would have been System 7, and I think the first version of Mac OS X would have been 10.2
 
10.6.4.

I got the 2010 iMac late december last year, and i haven't experienced updating my OS to a new 10.x yet. I'm wondering if the update is painstaking or fun..

Before I switched to OS X, i was using Windows 95, then 98, then waited a while and got XP. Then i got Vista, and hated it, so I decided to quickly switch to mac. And after using windows 7, im glad i made that switch.
 
HEB said:
10.6.4.

I got the 2010 iMac late december last year, and i haven't experienced updating my OS to a new 10.x yet. I'm wondering if the update is painstaking or fun..
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For a single 10.x upgrade it's 99% painless and takes under an hour. For bigger jumps it can become a bigger pain, but if you do each upgrade, it's easy.
 
Got a iBook G4 1.33GHz before I deployed to Iraq in late 2004. Came with 10.3 :) This was my first Mac.

I was not a switcher then, I strictly wanted to try something different so I bought the Mac.

I went fully to Mac when they made the Intel Switch and bought an 2GHz Core Duo iMac to replace my desktop. Came with 10.4
 
8.6 "with Sherlock 2"

Poll fail.



Also, shouldn't some people be saying iPhone OS versions, since it is technically the same OS X kernel?
 
Cinematographer said:
Wow. This poll makes me feel old. I'm using Macs since version 7.5

We already had virtual memory, true type fonts, multithreading, aliases; we could open documents by draging them to the programm icon. It was all revolutionary back then.
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System 7.5? Hold on newbie. We have had TrueType fonts since System 6.0.7. Our OS has been 32-bit since about that same time. Of the major innovations in System 7.5 were QuickDraw GX and its accompanying font technology, TrueType GX.
 
System 7?

Began with System 7.5.3 on a used Powermac 7500/100 which was a great Mac, then bought a used 6500/250 which had a G3 upgrade, then talked my parents into getting a family Mac (they were PC users) and we got a Power Mac G5 (Dual 2GHz) with Panther which I later upgraded to Leopard, a few years later the G5 suffered from mother board problems and we got a early 2009 Intel iMac to replace it, soon after I bought my first own new mac which was a mid 2009 17' MBP, both that one and the iMac came with Leopard, with mine being upgraded to Snow Leopard right when I was released. Being in IT now and putting up with Windows all day it is nice to come home to a computer which works, dose not crash, and is of quality construction.
 
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