When did you switch to Mac OS

[steinlager]

November 2007

 

[Cloudane]

I've never really "switched" as such, as I still use a PC for gaming. Yes I can dual boot the Mac, but meh, it's a fart on (and the graphics aren't as good). Until they write the same standard of online games for OS X (or even the XBox 360), and Apple reciprocate with better graphics cards, I will always be PC dependent to some extent.

However since getting my iMac last month, my PC has spent most of its time switched off, so I'm as close to "switched" as I can get.

First time I used a Mac was in Year 7 of school (age 11-12), so 1993 I think. It's the classic Apple story... it was technically a bit of a rubbish machine compared to the Amiga I had at home (especially the older 9" mono floppy-only models we were restricted to most of the time), but it was very neat and had a certain lovable charm that kept you going back for more. It was also far better at serious stuff than the 'miggy.

First time I owned a Mac was the Powerbook G4 12" I bought in 2004. Fell in love with it, got the iMac finally last month and here I am

 

[Shadow]

July 2006. Never going back

 

[dukebound85]

August 2003. Before that used os9 os 8, os 7 and whatever was on a macplus circa 1988 lol

 

[acxz]

2 days ago Before that when I had my PC I ran Linux (Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Fedora Core) for five months, and before that Windows XP. I can't see me ever going back to Windows. Maybe Linux if this Mac gets out of date but I can't see that happening for a good few years.

 

[eric55lv]

July 2006. Never going back

im never going back to windows before i switched i had windows 95 but was right windows sucks

 

[Slip]

Not actually a direct answer to the question in, ehh, question, this list takes me back to the times when owning a computer was still a little bit special.

October 1980, Sinclair ZX-80
April 1981, ‘upgraded’ the Sinclair with a ZX-81 ROM and stick-on new keyboard template
Mid 1981, attached a ‘real’, external keyboard to the Sinclair, added a RAM module (which became so hot you could fry an egg on it) and added a little switch so that you could reverse the image
End of 1981, sold the whole shebang and bought a Commodore VIC-20
Early 1982, added an external floppy drive an expansion chassis and an 80 column display card
End of 1982, sold the VIC and bought a second hand Apple ][ Europlus with two floppy disk drives and an ‘amber’ Wang monitor on a special stand
End of 1983, sold everything for the same price I bought it for and stopped with computers all together
End of 1989, was able to participate in a PC buying scheme with interest free loan and tax write-off (our government wanted to stimulate PC use among the ‘unwashed masses’). It became a Commodore PC40-III with VGA monitor and an OKI 24 pin matrix printer with sheetfeeder
After the PC40-III I owned a string of home grown PC’s until I participated in another PC buying scheme, this time an HP Pavilion with an HP DeskJet (don’t remember the type)
As you could buy a PC every 3 years, by this time from overtime hours and/or spare vacation days (we have a lot of those days here) I bought another PC, a Packard Bell iXtreme Duo 4 years ago and also bought a new HP PhotoSmart and a HP scanner.

And earlier this year I began contemplating in buying an iMac. I had literally seen it all and I needed a change. Besides that, my wild days of tuning and upgrading were over, I had become a middle aged man

And so, on 23 October last, I took delivery of a 20”, 2.4 GHz. iMac with 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, iWork ’08, wireless alu keyboard, wireless MM and APEB. Added two external 500 GB HDDs earlier this month.

Overall contentment on a 1 to 10 scale: 8.5
On whish list: iPhone and yet to be announced and already mythical Ultra Portable

Duff Man says: “Oh Yeah!”

So why only the 8.5?

And as many people have said, I'd been lurking here for a few months before taking the plunge

 

[DesignerOnMac]

Macintosh II, and system 5 back in 1988.

 

[GuntherS]

December 2006 when I bought my first Mac.
I love it!!