What was your first Mac?

[spyderx]

Performa / Power Mac 6100 series (mid 90s) was the first I owned. Then I went on hiatus with windows/pcs and on a whim bought a G4 iBook at the Apple Store in Cambridge ma, and have been Mac-only since then, dozens of models and devices owned. What got me back into Mac was the original iPod. Was traveling a ton for work and that 1000's of songs in my pocket was a life saver.

I still have that iBook and it STILL WORKS!

Showed my kid nephew and he was fascinated by it hahaha.

 

[BruiserB]

Mac SE in 1987. I was so nervous driving home from the store with my $2900 computer in my $700 car.

 

[Project Alice]

Mine was a 333MHz Grape iMac G3 running Mac OS 8.6. Funny enough this was probably CIRCA 2006. I didn't know anything about Macs back then, but it sent me down a rabbit hole. My next Mac was either an Indigo iMac G3 running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, or my white 500MHz iBook G3 also running Tiger. I got those two around the same time, and I still have them. Don't have the grape one anymore, unfortunately.

 

[mike0000]

1987 Macintosh SE
20 MB hard drive!


Before the Mac I was rocking a Commodore 64

 

[Majestic9660]

7100 PowerPC 66mHz in 1995
then...
Power Macintosh 8600/300MHz 604e
PowerBook G3 500 (Pismo)
Power Mac G4, 867 (Quicksilver)
Power Mac G4 dual 1GHz, Mirrored Drive Door
Mac Pro Xeon four core 2.26GHz, then updated to a Xeon 6 core 3.33GHz
MacBook Pro G4 15 inch
Mac Pro Xeon 8 core 3.0GHz (Trash can)
iMac Pro Xeon 10 core 3.0GHz
MacBook Pro 15 inch Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz
MacBook Pro 15 inch i9 6 core 2.9GHz (Touch Bar)
Mac mini M1
Mac Studio M2 Ultra

 

[Edward Taggart]

Mac 512ke (Mac plus ROMS but only 512K Ram)

I added a Dove Computer upgrade to get to a full 1MB and add SCSI..

Fun times!

 

[BDee]

I picked up a used Apple II in 1984 here in Sweden and later traded it in for a Macintosh 512 in 1987. I just kept upgrading after that and kept the Macs as long as I could until the OS was just not working for me anymore. I now have an M1 MacBook Air from 2020 that still runs well and a MacMini M4 basic model for my studio computer. I have had many Macs, iBooks, and MacBooks...

 

[S.B.G]

I had a 2006 MacBook Pro as my first Mac.

 

[Pecka]

Macintosh SE 2,5/20 later upgraded to 4 MB RAM.

It was my fathers work computer but he let me use it after he switched to workstations from Sun.

It was good to learn on but very slow with System 7, but it was a 4 year old model when that OS version came out.

After that I got a LC 630 which of course was light years better than the SE.

Then I used PCs until I bought a MBP 15" 2013 and have used Macs ever since.

 

[EdwardC]

Performa 640CD. Had both 68k and 486 CPU and ran System 7 as well as Windows 3.1

 

[0423MAC]

Tangerine iMac G3

Heavy, bulky and slow, but we loved it.

 

[karatekidk]

This Powerbook 3400c bought for work in 1998. I was ecstatic, but, man, it was expensive!

 

[Christine1234]

Mine was a second hand eMac G4 that I bought because a friend kept telling me how much better Apple is than Windows. I switched to Mac and never looked back.

But my oldest is a 1986 SE. Somebody had it in a box of garbage to be thrown out, and I could not permit that sacrilege. I took it home. It was still working perfectly the last time it was powered up, but it's been at least 5 years since then.

 

[Devvy]

2011 mini Server with 8GB RAM. It took me some time before I realized the power cable was unreliable (and not the mini). The weak igpu was an issue.
I am not particularly fond of MacOS, but the integration with the iPhone and iPad is great; so I still have a mini (the M1 now)

 

[Alpha Centauri]

A 20" G5 iMac that was constantly hungry and gobbled up CD's

 

[Atomic1977]

My first experience with a Mac was the Macintosh Classic 2 it was colorless and kinda boring.

 

[Sital]

Macintosh 128K

 

[skottichan]

The first in my household was my dad's Apple IIc, amusingly I came about around 8 months before he got it. We kept it after he passed in 1990, still wish I had it.

My first Mac I ever personally received was a G4 iBook my ex-fiancé gave me when she upgraded to a Maacbook. First one I bought was a G5 iMac.

Amusingly, I was pretty anti-Mac when my ex gave me her iBook. Took less than a year for me to fully move over to Macs exclusively.



Looking at the IIc, and I still get hit with nostalgia. Would love to get one and put a Mini's guts in it.

 

[OldGuyInTheClub]

2012 Macbook Pro, I think with one of the first-generation Retina displays. Worked great until last year when the display suddenly conked out. Fortunately I was able to get data off the disk with some effort thanks to a second Mac, a Thunderbolt cable, and Target Disk mode. It might still work if I had an external display. I think the innards are mostly all right.

I was a PC user for years before that, not wanting to pay the Apple premium but in the end, 12+ years speaks volumes about the build quality. My Sonys and IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads had to be replaced every three or so years.

If the build quality of recent Macbook Pros are comparable, my current M3 MBP may outlive me.

 

[ApplePu]

Macinstosh Performa 475 in 1994

 

[Silvestru Hosszu]

The first Intel Mac Pro circa 2007.
It was such a revelation after many beige windows boxes and a dream for photo editing.

 

[Cheffy Dave]

My first Mac was the 12” Black Plastic Mac Book. I bought 2 refurbs, one each for my wife and I. it’s always been our first and favorite Mac

 

[boswald]

A 2018 Mac mini with minimal specs. It was weak but I loved it.

 

[GylesM]

Mine was a 24” 2008 iMac.

Top spec, at the time.

Such a lovely, lovely machine. It was actually this Mac that got me into photography.

What about you?

Mac Plus in 1986

 

[DaniTheFox]

512K -> Plus (MacDraw)
II -> IIx (Illustrator, FreeHand)
…
15“ MBP -> 12.9“ iPad Pro M1 (Safari for Aha!, Confluence, Kayako, Citrix, SAP…)