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What was your first Apple Laptop?

I had wanted to buy a mac laptop for years, but never got around to it until last year. Finally got myself the last pre-unibody edition of the Macbook Pro and haven't looked back since. The hardware is nice sure, but it is mainly the OS that is the real winner....
 
2.4GHz aluminum MacBook

I just made the switch from PC to Mac last week and bought a 2.4GHz MacBook. I needed to replace my aging/dying laptop and I also needed something that would be able to edit HD videos.

So far I'm loving it!
 
Powerbook 100 (a great little computer that i still have and it still works), and I bought a Mac Portable at work when it came out (not my money LOL).
 
iBook G3 Clamshell (Graphite SE)---> iBook G4 1.42GHz (last model)---> MacBook 2.16GHz (white)---> Present Day: MacBook Pro 2.2GHz and Mac Mini 1.83GHz.
 
Mine was an iBook G4 800mhz.

It was a great computer but just got a little too slow over the years. Last week I bought a 13" Macbook Alu 2.4ghz and its a screamer :) Love it!
 
My first apple laptop was an old 2001 iBook. I had a G4 cube and was comparing the two. it was a bit slower then the G4, but being a laptop, it gave me the mobility I needed.

Since then, I've owned a G4 ALU Powerbook, a core duo MacBook and C2D MacBook Pro and now finally a unibody MacBook Pro. The time span between the C2D MBP and the unibody MBP is rather short, so much so, that I'll probably be keeping this one a lot longer then I typically keep my computers.

Of course I say that now... :D
 
2010 MacBook Pro 2.66ghz

2012 MacBook Air i5 13" - still perfectly fine by battery health down to about 80%

2014 MacBook Air I7 13" - excellent performer.

2016 MacBook 12" M5 1.2 ghz - only had a month but very impressed so far.
 
My first Mac was a 2011 11" MacBook Air, core i7. Loved that machine, was my main and only computer for 5 years, the longest I've ever kept a computer.

Just upgraded to the 2016 retina MacBook, m7 and loving this one too, but doesn't give me the same sense of awe my 2011 model did.
 
My first Apple was a HP desktop that I had running 10.4.6.

Then I had a Dell desktop I got running 10.4.11.

I ended up building a tower that I ran all the way to 10.7.5.

I then decided to go all Apple and had several iBooks and PowerBooks.

My first Intel Mac was a MB 2,1 and I currently use a MB 5,2.
 
Mine was a 2009 13" MacBook Pro, which I still have and is still in working condition.
 
I like revisted threads so ...

Late 2009 15" MacBook Pro 2.66Ghz C2D in Nov '09.

It's still being used and on 24/7 at work as a workstation at the office with an external monitor connected.
The only thing I've done to it was upgrade RAM to 6GB and installed an SSD about 5 years ago.
 
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My first Mac was a mid-2007 white MacBook that I got in June 2007 after I graduated high school. I used it as my one and only computer for over 6 years until it was replaced by a mid-2010 MacBook; afterwards I kept it as a secondary computer until I had it recycled last year (it was literally falling apart and had been repaired several times over the years).
 
2007 MacBook Pro 15" with the Santa Rose chipset. That's when I found MacRumors- I was looking for information on when Apple would update their MBP and behold found this site.

It was such a beautiful machine and I hated having to turn it in for a replacement of the unibody when the graphics card kept going.
 
In late 2005, I purchased my first Mac, the G5 rev B iMac. That hooked me, right then and there.....and shortly after that, since I was about to do some traveling I realized that if I didn't want to use Windows at home any more and acknowledged that I really rather disliked the cheap little laptop I had, why ever would I want to take it on a trip? OK, it was time to buy an Apple Powerbook! So I did..... G4. Loved it, took it with me when I traveled.....and a few months later sold it in order to buy my first Intel-based Apple laptop, a 15" MBP. Have had various ones around here ever since. Right now, a 13" rMBP and a 15" rMBP......
 
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12" powerbook G4, ironically almost the same size as my current Macbook; although the thickness and profile is night and day.
 
Mid-2010 white MacBook that I inherited from a relative who said it was dying when they upgraded to a newer Apple system. I fixed it by buying a replacement for a missing key on the keyboard and DIY-replacing the hard drive (took minutes). Used it as backup for my 2011 iMac for three years.

When I killed my 2011 iMac this spring trying to replace the original hard drive with an SSD, I DIY-upgraded the 2010 MacBook's RAM to 16 Gb and installed a new SSD drive to use that "old" MacBook as a primary home office system while waiting for new iMacs or Mac Minis to come out. I run it with a hi res 27" monitor using Apple's dual link DVI-miniDP/USB cable, and a powered external USB multi port bus in the remaining USB port in the MacBook. It feels like the 2011 iMac, just slower to wak from sleep.

I can hot swap the big external monitor from that MacBook to my work Windows laptop by unplugging the dual link from the MacBook and plugging the monitor's VGA cable into the Windows laptop, or vice-versa. I keep a wired mouse and wireless Windows keyboard connected the work laptop and a wireless Apple keyboard and wireless trackpad connected to the MacBook, so it takes seconds to switch from one compact system to the other.

I am very pleasantly surprised with this "old" macbook's performance. Even the speed running external hard drives through USB 2 isn't that bad. Has me rethinking the whole iMac thing, but I worry about cost, limited ports and lack of DIY upgradability of the newer Apple laptops.
 
My first Apple laptop was a black MacBook 2007, Core2Duo. I've got great memories of that machine... It worked great until Lion, the Vista for OS X. I sold it and bought a 13" MacBook Pro. Four years later I changed it for a 15" rMBP, and now I'm waiting for my m5 rMB to arrive.
Almost ten years using Mac and I think it was the best decision I've ever made.
 
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