What was your first Mac?

[joeblow7777]

My first Mac is a my current one: M3 MacBook Air. 16GB of RAM. 1TB SSD.

I've been using iPhones and iPads for many years but I stuck with Windows PCs until 2024. For better or worse, I'm all in with Apple now...

 

[ARK]

My first was a Powerbook G3 Pismo/Lombard.

 

[MultiFinder17]

The first Mac that was 100% mine was a Power Mac G4/500DP. It was my primary Mac from around 2004 when I bought it off a friend that upgraded to a G5 until it was replaced with a 2009 Mac mini. I still have that machine as a PowerPC playhouse. I still have that mini in daily use 16 years later too!

 

[MrENGLISH]

My first Mac was the first gen 20" iMac G5 purchased in October of 2005.

I had been anti-mac up to that point after having a bad experience with an early version of Mac OS X and Adobe Illustrator - I hated that the window panels were just floating around with the desktop wallpaper being visible behind it.

I had graduated college in Sept 2005 and it seemed like all the design jobs near me were Mac based. So I started looking into what options were available and when I watched the iMac G5 launch video, I knew that was the Mac I wanted to buy.

Since then, I have owned several different Macs and almost all the iPhones models that have launched.

Crazy to think it has been 20 years since I made the switch to Mac.

 

[RUGERMAN]

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?

got an original Mac 128k with Mac Write&Macpaint in 1985 and stayed up all night playing with it and then had to go to work lol, but couldn't wait to get back home to it.

 

[farmboy]

A mighty Apple //c, followed by a Mac SE30--used for years, PowerBook 145, Mac ||, PowerBook G3 Pismo...and on and on. I kept them all, they all still worked except the Mac|| (ram failure), and sold all of them two years ago. Good times.

 

[ProQuiz]

My first Mac was a MacBook Pro 14" with the M2 Pro chip, 16 GB RAM, and 512 GB SSD. Three weeks after I received it, Apple announced and released the M3 versions. I called Apple to see if I could do a return and they accepted. Then I ordered a MacBook Pro 14" with the M3 Pro chip, 18 GB RAM, and 512 GB SSD for the same price.

 

[amancalledsun]

Powerbook G4 Titanium. Although my Dad borrowed an original Macintosh a few times from a friend of his when I was a kid.

 

[carapau]

First one was a Mac mini 2010 .

 

[elite953]

I had macbook 2015, 13 inch variant with 128gb storage and 8gb ram. Used it for good long 9 years before i sold it

 

[kubad]

My first Mac is 2014 Mac mini with only 4 gb of ram 🙂

 

[Populus]

As I already said on this thread, my first Mac was a 2010 13” MacBook Pro, the first to claim 10h of battery life despite still carrying a Core 2 Duo CPU…

I sold it many years ago… and you know what? I somehow regret selling it. I mean, the Mac was already very outdated when I sold it, that’s why I sold it, but it had the emotional value of being my first Mac, having accompanied me along 10 years, being used daily (no exceptions for weekends, or holidays, it was a 24/7 machine), and being the laptop that some people who are no longer here, met and saw me with… to be honest, maybe what I miss are those people and those memories…

 

[Lloigorr]

As I already said on this thread, my first Mac was a 2010 13” MacBook Pro, the first to claim 10h of battery life despite still carrying a Core 2 Duo CPU…

I sold it many years ago… and you know what? I somehow regret selling it. I mean, the Mac was already very outdated when I sold it, that’s why I sold it, but it had the emotional value of being my first Mac, having accompanied me along 10 years, being used daily (no exceptions for weekends, or holidays, it was a 24/7 machine), and being the laptop that some people who are no longer here, met and saw me with… to be honest, maybe what I miss are those people and those memories…

Yeah that’s why I couldn’t recycle my dead ‘07 MacBook yet. I had many macs throughout the last 2 decades. But this one still sits lifeless in a drawer. The memories!

 

[Luftkopf]

As I already said on this thread, my first Mac was a 2010 13” MacBook Pro, the first to claim 10h of battery life despite still carrying a Core 2 Duo CPU…

I sold it many years ago… and you know what? I somehow regret selling it. I mean, the Mac was already very outdated when I sold it, that’s why I sold it, but it had the emotional value of being my first Mac, having accompanied me along 10 years, being used daily (no exceptions for weekends, or holidays, it was a 24/7 machine), and being the laptop that some people who are no longer here, met and saw me with… to be honest, maybe what I miss are those people and those memories!

I still have my G4 ‘Sawtooth’ Power Mac that was my first Mac. I hope to see if it still boots and runs, and I can play Halo again.

I’ve never seen a better designed, laid out, and built machine than that one. It was a dream to use OS X on that, especially contrasted against Windows XP!

 

[mdcmdcmdc]

Another old-timer here! My first Mac was an original 1984 Macintosh, with 128K of RAM and a single 400K floppy disk drive, that I got when I started college in 1984. My college required all incoming freshmen in those days to have Macs, and I've been an unapologetic Apple fanboy ever since.

Here's my list over the years:

• 1984 - Original 128K Macintosh
• 1986 - Logic board upgrade to Mac Plus
• 1989 - IIcx
• 1994 - Quadra 650
• 1995 - PowerPC 601 card for the Quadra 650, essentially turning it into a Power Mac 7100/66
• 1999 - Power Mac G3 Blue & White
• 2006 - 17" Intel Core 2 Duo iMac
• 2013 - 21.5" Aluminum Unibody iMac
• 2015 - Used 13" Early 2011 MacBook Pro for traveling
• 2021 - 13" M1 MacBook Pro

I'm hoping to soon add a 2026 14" M5 Pro or Max (TBD) MBP to the list.

 

[Populus]

I still have my G4 ‘Sawtooth’ Power Mac that was my first Mac. I hope to see if it still boots and runs, and I can play Halo again.

I’ve never seen a better designed, laid out, and built machine than that one. It was a dream to use OS X on that, especially contrasted against Windows XP!

Which OS runs? Tiger? Leopard?
I guess that was the pinnacle of the PowerPC Macs

 

[Lil Chillbil]

I also had a 400MHz Sawtooth G4 than I ran on Tiger, Radeon 7000 32MB Graphics card, over a gig of RAM and two spinning discs that were somewhere between 20-80Gb. It got crushed by most tasks but I was still able to learn FCP 5 (I still use 7) on it. Going to a dual 2.0Ghz G5 and eventually a 12-Core Mac Pro taught me a lot about integrating otherwise obsolete workflows into my hobby.

 

[Luftkopf]

Which OS runs? Tiger? Leopard?
I guess that was the pinnacle of the PowerPC Macs

It was a 450 MHz G4 that I absolutely maxed out. I maxed the RAM, upgraded the GPU, and even put a Sonnet CPU upgrade card in there, I think it was 1.3 GHz!

I ran Tiger on it, as that was as far as it would go.

 

[Populus]

It was a 450 MHz G4 that I absolutely maxed out. I maxed the RAM, upgraded the GPU, and even put a Sonnet CPU upgrade card in there, I think it was 1.3 GHz!

I ran Tiger on it, as that was as far as it would go.

Oh! I didn’t know you could put “CPU expansion cards” on those computers! Interesting.

 

[splifingate]

maybe what I miss are those people and those memories…

Therein lies the ultimate essence of our attraction 🙂

 

[F1Mac]

My first one was a PowerMac 7200 in 1996, with 48 MB of ram 💪☺️ which felt like being a ninja at university.
Dark Forces was fun to play on that machine 😉

 

[rb2112]

As I already said on this thread, my first Mac was a 2010 13” MacBook Pro, the first to claim 10h of battery life despite still carrying a Core 2 Duo CPU…

THe 2010 13" MBP got me through my master's degree. 2 weeks after I finished my coursework, I had left it by an open window in the house and it got rained on and died. I thought it was a GREAT computer for my needs!

 

[mackard]

Santa rosa macbook pro. First thing i did was completely delete macos and make it a windows machine.

Not sure how many years old it was.. but macos lion was the first macos i personally thought was positive.. at a time when windows was just reskinning itself, macos was actually adding features to the concept of desktop operating systems to allow you to use them better. I respected apple so much for actually adding real computing use features.

Yeah that long stopped in macos i know. The last real feature in macos was universal control. Stage manager you can do by hand without needing a straight jacket to force you to. Or just use spaces.

 

[ClaraStahlbaum]

2023 M2 Pro 512GB SSD Mac Mini. To this day I have no idea why I sold it and got the base model M4 Mac Mini.

 

[schnaps]

THe 2010 13" ... it got rained on and died.

The collection includes a fully functional Powerbook G4 2005, which survived a fire and firefighting with the display open. This is quite impressive for a consumer product. The keyboard is water-resistant! And barriers on the vents prevent direct water splashes.