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What was the first thing you liked about mac's?

c-Row said:
Is that a serious question? I mean, how could you not fall in love with something like this?

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Ah, wish I had owned one of these, but I only used it at a friend's place for a few times but was hooked instantly. After all those years with Windows, I finally sat in front of something that looked like the people behind it actually cared about their product. Being an Amiga person, it was a bit like coming home again.

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Got to admit, I am even on the look out for one now, I love them so much.
 
My best friend's father was a college professor, they had mac's in the home growing up, all borrowed from the college. When my parents went to buy our first computer, I'd already become somewhat familiar with Mac's. Mostly through playing games like Sim City 2000, Warcraft 2, and Marathon.

In 1998 my parents bought an IBM as our first family computer (I was a senior in High School), I lobbied vigorously for a Mac but they were "too expensive" I thought the IBM was a pretty good machine overall though we had some fun games and my parents bought word perfect for our school work, and essentially no internet to speak of meant that our computer kept running pretty well.

They stuck with PC's after that, and when I got married my wife and I got a really nice PC by winning an auction at a local PC builder, something that would normally retail for over $2,000 but we got it for $700. I was pretty happy with that machine overall. Then I needed a laptop so I bought a Compaq since they were cheap, that one put me off windows altogether, it didn't take much more than a year before I was so fed up with dealing with Windows performance issues that I decided to replace it and give Apple another try.

As a result of that decision, my wife and I are both using Mac, as is my mother, my sister-in-laws, and my wife's parents plan on it very soon.

I'm sold purely on the performance, and the way they continue to operate they way they are supposed to without any outside intervention necessary.

SLC
 
Windows ( Vista in particular) has so many warning dialogs, bugs, and constantly needs the Anti-virus software updating. I still can't get over how I ever put up with a Windows Pc. My friends at college all have cheap windows laptops, out of 4 windows laptops, 2 of them had crashed upon launching a application, and one had a trojan virus...

Mac is incredibly seamless and the most professional, solid and stable OS out there to me, and that is something worth paying £££s for, not to mention the gorgeous design and features.

A friend ( online chat ) had a Mac and he told me everything about them, sent me screenshots and a videos of Leopard and I couldn't believe how easy everything was to use and how ' clean ' it looked.

... Never going back to a PC !
 
Looks

I remember the first time I decided I was going to get a Mac, and that was when I laid eyes on a 12" PowerBook.

The fact that they work so well is a real bonus, but I didn't know that at the time.
 
Got given a tangerine iBook to use at school. I thought it was the most beautiful computer I'd ever seen.

Now I have a lot more reasons to stay mac, but I first bought one because 10 years ago I used to look at that iBook and think about how I'd never be able to afford one, it was pure longing :eek:
 
Heres the real big question,


would anyone go back to windows?


I know I wouldn't. :apple::apple::apple::apple::apple:
 
I have to say I'm a lucky kid. My dad has been a mac person my entire life. I'm now in college and I have never owned a windows computer.
 
In 1987 I needed my computer for desktop publishing
I got a Mac SE and a Mac II and they were miles ahead of the DOS world

Windows 3.1 didn't even come out till 1992



Woof, Woof - Dawg
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The first time I used a Mac was in elementary school (I'm 16 now). The whole county used to be all Macintosh (now they are Dell, blech) and in the library, we had bondi blue iMacs, always loved those things. The teachers had them too. In other labs, there were Power Macintosh All in ones. I didn't really like them because they weren't as pretty as the iMacs (I was in elementary school, duh). When I was in 5th grade, Baltimore County's Apple contract expired and they signed a new contract with Dell and the school library got rid of half the iMacs and put some horrible beige Dell monstrosities in there. I remember when we had to use the computers in school, everyone would call the iMacs and the kids who couldn't run as fast had to use the ugly Dells ;)

I had vascillated on Mac vs Windows in middle school (when I was pro-Windows, I think it was mostly because I was jealous ;) ) In 8th grade, I was dead set on getting a Mac, and I purchased my 900 MHz iBook (used) that summer.


So now I'm in high school and we have Dells that need to be replaced every 6 months because they are pure **** and yet the county can't grasp this concept. Oh well, I just bring my iBook to school and use it instead of their ****** computers.
 
first the looks, then the UNIX underpinnings of Mac OS X. I did not like Mac OS 9 at all.
 
They crash less than my previous Wintel machines. My workflow is faster on it somehow. A combination of the UI and the lack of crashing. :)
 
The fact that they just work.

And how they just don't slow down.

I've had my iMac G3 for about 4-5 years, installed OS X 10.1, 10.3 and now 10.4. It just got faster! Not slower like my Winblows box would have. :rolleyes:

Right now it even beats my new laptop that I've had for less than a year in performance because of Winblows slowdowns. Linux is still speedy as ever on it though ;)
I'm planning on turning my laptop into a triple-boot Hackintosh soon, just got a new 120GB HDD for it and dd'd Winblows and Linux onto it from my old HDD (oh the power of linux :D).
 
The design of these two computers
 

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aaron11193 said:
The fact that they just work.

And how they just don't slow down.

I've had my iMac G3 for about 4-5 years, installed OS X 10.1, 10.3 and now 10.4. It just got faster! Not slower like my Winblows box would have. :rolleyes:

Right now it even beats my new laptop that I've had for less than a year in performance because of Winblows slowdowns. Linux is still speedy as ever on it though ;)
I'm planning on turning my laptop into a triple-boot Hackintosh soon, just got a new 120GB HDD for it and dd'd Winblows and Linux onto it from my old HDD (oh the power of linux :D).
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I have to slightly disagree on this. My MBP didn't remove my bootcamp partition correctly, and my OSX never worked as smoothly since. But I appreciate the fact that with partition error and incorrect folder count or directory overlaps, it STILL WORKS. Now that my exams are over, I'm gonna reformat everything. :p
 
Are macs getting more popular or are they slowing down due to the credit crunch?
 
My first encountering with macs was in my friend's studio, never thought about them much then. But when i was buying a laptop for myself i was more and more interested in them. My final decision for buying a mac was an article in a computer magazine. Then i bought a used Macbook white(2,4 ghz and 2 gb ram) and was veeeery satisfied with it. I used it for everything and ditched my old pc (which is now only turned on to make music in cubase). Then i sold my old phone i got an iPhone(which i dissed really badly when i had my N95:eek:). Recently i bought aN Unibody Macbook Pro and am very satisfied with it, it shows no defects whatsoever.

Thats my story;)
 
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