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Whats the first thing that drew you to apple products?
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this isn't to flame windows or to start a thread about it, but honestly - windows is the reason i switched 7 years ago.
i started a home video transfer business and between windows and the crappy software I was using, I had crashes at both ends which really impacted my ability to get things done.
I was talking to an actor friend of mine who said that alot of folks in the industry use macs b/c "they just get things done."
Went out and bought one and have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. just ordered my 6th mac (5 for the business, 1 imac for the family) and with that purchase, windows will cease to exist in my house.
the amount of 'stuff' i've been able to throw at my macs and watch them work perfectly and without issue, has been amazing.
i started a home video transfer business and between windows and the crappy software I was using, I had crashes at both ends which really impacted my ability to get things done.
I was talking to an actor friend of mine who said that alot of folks in the industry use macs b/c "they just get things done."
Went out and bought one and have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. just ordered my 6th mac (5 for the business, 1 imac for the family) and with that purchase, windows will cease to exist in my house.
the amount of 'stuff' i've been able to throw at my macs and watch them work perfectly and without issue, has been amazing.
Noticed an article in a PC magazine about 9 years ago, about upgrades announced by Apple for the G3 iMacs. It was a very short article, but the photo with the macs caught my eye, and they were so beautiful, I became curious. I also couldn't believe they were all-in-one, that the whole computer existed inside, well, the 'monitor'; I wondered why I hadn't heard of this before, or why this detail was only casually mentioned in the article, for me this was huge.
A year later, I saw something on TV about the new G4 iMacs, which were obviously even nicer than the G3s... It rekindled my interest in Apple - I'd never heard of anything even remotely similar to that kind of design... I was on a crummy PC that crashed all the time, and I had basically no awareness of any OS except for Windows, which I started to believe was unacceptable, I had to find out more.
A few more months down the line, I had an internet connection installed, went on Apple.com, and read just about everything consumer-oriented I could find on their site, including about the then new OS X. Everything about it seemed too good to be true, especially compared to Windows, which for me was always acting up.
Until I got my iBook in 2005, I installed various skins on my Windows to emulate the look of OS X, and at one point, spent days trying to actually emulate System 7 on my PC. Now those were the days
A year later, I saw something on TV about the new G4 iMacs, which were obviously even nicer than the G3s... It rekindled my interest in Apple - I'd never heard of anything even remotely similar to that kind of design... I was on a crummy PC that crashed all the time, and I had basically no awareness of any OS except for Windows, which I started to believe was unacceptable, I had to find out more.
A few more months down the line, I had an internet connection installed, went on Apple.com, and read just about everything consumer-oriented I could find on their site, including about the then new OS X. Everything about it seemed too good to be true, especially compared to Windows, which for me was always acting up.
Until I got my iBook in 2005, I installed various skins on my Windows to emulate the look of OS X, and at one point, spent days trying to actually emulate System 7 on my PC. Now those were the days
Me too. I used my first Apple in the 80's and that's what grabbed me. They certainly weren't pretty and shiny at that point.
I was recently out of college and a loan officer said I needed to borrow some money just to prove to the bank I could pay it back. I talked my wife into thinking we needed a computer ... this would be late 1984 early 1985 ... Talked to all my friends who had computers which I should get ...
My buddy with the Kaypro said I should get a Kaypro. My buddy with an Apple IIc said it was the greatest. I might have known somebody with a PC at the time, but a bunch of clone makers had just gone out of business so the only companies left were IBM and Compaq, and they were charging a premium.
Then a guy who had an Apple IIe, who was quite happy with his machine, said I should look at a Mac, that they were way cool. He was the only guy I knew who said I should buy something other than what he had. It was the endorsement that sold me on Macs. I'm on my sixth.
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My buddy with the Kaypro said I should get a Kaypro. My buddy with an Apple IIc said it was the greatest. I might have known somebody with a PC at the time, but a bunch of clone makers had just gone out of business so the only companies left were IBM and Compaq, and they were charging a premium.
Then a guy who had an Apple IIe, who was quite happy with his machine, said I should look at a Mac, that they were way cool. He was the only guy I knew who said I should buy something other than what he had. It was the endorsement that sold me on Macs. I'm on my sixth.
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What drawn me to Apple products? I don't know, I started using my parents Macintosh Classic when I was only 3 years old...
Grew tired of windows, and looked at Linux and apple, but as I had tinkered with Linux before, dropped it in favor of apple, and began my research into it. The rest is history.
I saw a 128K Mac at work on a colleague's desk in 1985. He had brought it into the job just to show it off. Saved up my dough and plunked it down that December for the 512k. After I booted that for the first time, it was goodbye DOS / Windoze. I think most of my co-workers on that morning must have followed suit during that year. By the early 90s our whole shop was Mac. We kept bringing work in from home -- like hypercard-based prototypes that worked and could be demo'd to clients, while the DOS nerds were still writing flowcharts towards a spec for code. When XCMDs made it possible to use Hypercard with networked Oracle databases, our IT group saw the future and started buying Apple beige boxes big time.
Titanium PowerBook G4 and iMac G4 was what did it. There is just nothing attracting me to want a newer Apple computer though.
(oh yeah, The PowerBook 165 from 1993 that was working in 2005/6 not sure which.)
(oh yeah, The PowerBook 165 from 1993 that was working in 2005/6 not sure which.)
well I told myself I would never buy any apple products because I hated the fanboys and I didn't want to be part of the 'family', then one day at school I found a first gen ipod nano, and it was so much better than my current mp3 player that I could no longer hate on apple and shortly after bought a MBP..
It was 1992 and I was heading to college. Most of the computers at the university were Macs, so I got a Mac.
I was first aware of the Apple II+ and IIe as a kid but it didn't do much for me outside of playing games on it. After that I had some experiences with the PC side and thought the stuff was junk. Then I started using the original Macintosh for word processing and it was at that time that a computer really became a useful, time saving tool for me. Like many, I became a Mac addict. I used it for papers in my last year of college and it really beat all the handwritten and typed papers I had to do in the previous three years of study.
I went through a second stage again where the computer was more of a toy, due to the internet and games, but it became more of a tool again now that I started learning financial software which I can apply to my life. A lot of the cool titles on software, and web sites these days are little more than fancy games and time wasters. What would be fun is a study to see if computers make kids better students, or if computers make kids more distracted. As powerful as computers are for learning and development, it may have dumbed down the public and taken emphasis away from the three Rs.
I went through a second stage again where the computer was more of a toy, due to the internet and games, but it became more of a tool again now that I started learning financial software which I can apply to my life. A lot of the cool titles on software, and web sites these days are little more than fancy games and time wasters. What would be fun is a study to see if computers make kids better students, or if computers make kids more distracted. As powerful as computers are for learning and development, it may have dumbed down the public and taken emphasis away from the three Rs.
My friend had a IIgs with GS/OS and a bunch of games. I wanted to be able to play those games so I bought a IIvx. Then I found out there was a difference between Apples and Macs even though they were from the same company and the OS looked just the same.
Anyways I loved System 7 which seemed light years ahead of DOS 6 and Windows 3.1.
Anyways I loved System 7 which seemed light years ahead of DOS 6 and Windows 3.1.
The graphics interface that was well thought and consistent and the underlying unix. Best of both worlds.
Oh and the shiny powerbook looks of course...
Oh and the shiny powerbook looks of course...
I actually wonder how many people have switched to mac after using their iphone/ipod touch.
I used drool over the iMac g4 in John Lewis, I was stuck finishing off my MSCE for work and could not warrant the change. People had made silly comments to hard to switch. Then when I became interested in Maya I got an Intel iMac, Then one day I got a Mac Pro and a MBP. Haven't looked back since. Hopefully my new 24" LED will turn up tommorrow, Although I still haven't decided what Card with a MDP to get.