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What was your first Apple product?

1989 SE/30 4/40, Apple extended keyboard, Kensington trackball, Apple ImageWriter II $5,000 at the Greenwich CT Apple Store (yes Apple had actual brick and mortar stores in 1989) under the Apple Credit Plan. Cost me $7,000 with interest over 2 years.
 
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A grape iMac I got from CompUSA
 

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You guys have been at this way longer than me, but my first Apple product was a MacBook Air in 2014. I was in search of an "ultrabook," but Windows ones were so expensive that I considered the possibility that the equivalent from Apple would be a better value for me. Sure enough, it was, so I took the plunge and still see OS X Mavericks as my all-time favorite version of OS X.
 
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Power Mac G4/500DP. Got it cheap in high school from a friend of my mother’s who had just upgraded to a brand-new G5, ended up using that as my main computer from around 2004-2009 when I replaced it with an early ‘09 Mac mini. I still have that computer, and I use it for running older PowerPC games in my classroom for the kids to noodle around with.
 
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My first computer was the Commodore 64 around 1994. I kept it for about years. My first Apple device was a Mac 128K that I got from work around 1996. I also had an early Mac mini, and bought a new white polycarbonate MacBook in 2009 and have been using Apple devices ever since.

This the model, but it's not my photo (I lifted from the internet)
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Back then I didn't know what Apple was. Didn't know they had other products. Just an iPod A year later got my first MacBook 4,1.
 
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My first Apple product was a secondhand Powermac G4 Digital Audio that came from a tech startup that shut down in Atlanta. My actual first computer before that was a UMAX C600 clone with a G3 L2 upgrade card. Still have both. I remember when the hard drive crapped out under warranty on the UMAX, a tech came out to my house and replaced the drive while I waited.
 
My first Apple product was the first generation iPod Shuffle.

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I thought it was a great idea, but the earbuds were painful and iTunes sucked. It got fried by a usb speaker shortly after I got it.

I’d wanted an Apple computer since 1997 (first saw one in 1987) but they were always too expensive. They still are.

I got my first NEW Apple computer in 2013 (first used in 2011). I’ve now had 10 in total - from Apple II Plus to Mac SE, G4 to MacBook Pro
 
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A few years before my love affair with iPhone began (with the 4), I bought a 3rd gen iPod Nano. I remember the FM transmitter/adapter that I used to have to fiddle with every 20 minutes on road trips to listen to my music in the car. Oh and watching videos on that itty bitty screen. Simpler days.
 
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mathiasinthe314 said:
A few years before my love affair with iPhone began (with the 4), I bought a 3rd gen iPod Nano. I remember the FM transmitter/adapter that I used to have to fiddle with every 20 minutes on road trips to listen to my music in the car. Oh and watching videos on that itty bitty screen. Simpler days.
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I still have and use mine when I go walking or running. I love the nostalgia and quaint click wheel. Really brings back a lot of memories.

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mtbdudex said:
“What was your first Apple product”?

The first I purchased and owned myself was the original Apple Macintosh, yep good old 128k 400k floppy drive.
September 10, 1984.
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^^ That is me on it during my college years. I took a B&W photography course, that photo I developed the negative and manually exposed the image onto the paper.
I wonder who here has done same?

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My sister went to U of M, I went to Oakland University, bought the Macintosh thru her discount.

I participated in the SIG’s of the 80’s / 90’s in SE Michigan also, taught Mac specific courses there.

I’ve never owned a WinTel machine.
It’s been fun, I’m nearing retirement soon and of course now own a M3 14” MacBook Pro.

Now prior to the original Macintosh, I did use other Apple products, mostly the Apple IIe , learned 6502 assy language programming on it.

Since then I’ve owned all these Apple Products, ha probably a few more.

Q: only 1 of all these did I return for a refund, which one? Can you guess why?
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Beautiful post.
 
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