What was your first Mac?

[arefbe]

My first Mac was a MacPlus, circa 1989. But I kept it only a few months before switching to a Mac SE, since it could house 2 floppy drives. In 1994 I had it converted into a Mac SE/30 at a local computer store, and lost one of the drives in the process.

 

[navaira]

This is the most wholesome thread I’ve ever seen on those forums. Thank you @The Cockney Rebel.

 

[Daveg6]

My first Apple computer was an Apple IIC, otherwise known as ET’s head! Then came an Apple IIGS, with Bose speakers. Translucent iMac was next, then blue and white Power Mac G3. 2009 Power Mac 350 which I used for 14 years and now a Mac Mini M2 Pro which is wonderful. I love the Apple ecosystem! 16 Pro phone, iPad Air, Apple Watch series 10.

 

[WriteNow]

few months of Windows 95 I was sick of having to fix and workaround bugs, defrag the drive, reinstall windows when things decided they no longer wanted to work for no reason etc

And I'm sure that Murphy's Law made sure that these problems would crop up the night when you needed the system 100% functional to get that important project done for the next day!

I'll never forget my first Windows 95 experience. I was given access to a PC system to use. Microsoft Publisher. (It's odd that it's odd that I was a long time Macintosh user, but my first experience using page layout software was Microsoft Publisher!) I found that the Windows 95 wasn't quite as awful as I had feared, but at the same time I found myself appreciating my Macintosh at home more. Sometimes I'd even do initial work on my Macintosh at home to bring in text files to import into Publisher. The odd thing in this was that I had an SE/30 running System 6, which means a monochrome screen and then long discontinued operating system.

A couple of years later I had a chance to play with both Windows 95 and Windows 98 on various old PCs. That experience gave me a full exposure to all the problems of Windows 95/98.

I was frankly always a little surprised whenever I would read commentary suggesting that Windows 95/98 was a step past System 7. That was never my experience. I'm sure there were ways Windows 95/98 was better, but the overall experience of the Mac of the Mac OS was better, and it caused me a lot less trouble than Windows--even though I had used some versions of System 6 and System 7 that were considered problematic.

 

[TumbleDryer]

And I'm sure that Murphy's Law made sure that these problems would crop up the night when you needed the system 100% functional to get that important project done for the next day!

Oh yes! I put my fist through my very expensive Epson printer (it was cheaper than taking a hammer to the PC) when I needed to print for a project deadline the next day. I'm the most chill person but Windows made me angry lol.

As we all know Windows and printers just don't work well together but it had been printing fine all week doing the mockups etc. Then when it came to me doing the final print Windows decided it no longer wanted to recognise the printer. Nothing at all had changed on the system, it just didn't want to work anymore. I lost my **** put my fist through the perspex lid of the giant A3 printer lid and threw it in the bin outside. I couldn't do it to the PC as it had my work on it lol so the poor printer took the heat. That was the day I made up my mind to drop £1800 on a brand new Mac set up. £1800 when I was a student in 1999. That's A LOT of money but I was determined to get away from Windows.

I didn't have a single problem with the G4 for the 5 years I had it!

 

[WriteNow]

As we all know Windows and printers just don't work well together

Now, as I think of it, I seem to recall having read somebody who worked in IT talking about the problems and hassles of dealing with printers.

I remember wondering about that at the time, thinking that printers had never been much of a problem for me. But now that you bring this up, it occurs to me that IT person probably was dealing with Windows and printers.

I fortunately never had printer problems with any of the Windows systems I had, but it probably helped that I didn't use a printer much.

And all the printers I used were so old that Windows included driver software on the Windows install disk, which could possibly have worked more reliably than driver software on a CD included with a new printer.

but it had been printing fine all week doing the mockups etc. Then when it came to me doing the final print Windows decided it no longer wanted to recognise the printer. Nothing at all had changed on the system, it just didn't want to work anymore.

It probably had lost interest in working earlier in the week, but it decided to wait for the most inconvenient possible moment to act up!

 

[IvyKing]

And all the printers I used were so old that Windows included driver software on the Windows install disk, which could possibly have worked more reliably than driver software on a CD included with a new printer.

As long as the printer is not too old, I have a Xerox Phaser 6180DN that is nicely supported by MacOS's generic Postscript driver but MS does not provide drivers with modern versions of Windows.

 

[Antares23]

Mine was an Early 2006 20" iMac with the 2.0GHz Core Duo, 2GB of RAM, and the Radeon X1600, got it back in 2015 when I was 14, Snow Leopard was still somewhat usable back in these days lol

 

[TumbleDryer]

It probably had lost interest in working earlier in the week, but it decided to wait for the most inconvenient possible moment to act up!

It's the thing I hate most about Windows. You can do the same thing over and over 100 times and then all of a sudden, for absolutely no reason at all, it does something different. You spend days finding a work around only for it to go back to normal in the future but because you've done the workaround it's now broken again. Now you have to create a workaround for the workaround even though things would be working fine without the initial workaround. Or just reinstall Windows again and hope that the bug that caused the initial workaround goes away.

It's no better on Windows 11 25 years later. I had to use it at work for a time and the printers would be all good for a month then all of a sudden nothing.

Anyhoo... im getting off topic.

 

[aakshey]

MBA 11" 2014 4gb 128gb, base model.