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Who Here Has NEVER Bought A PC Computer?

bobber205

bobber205

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I've seen alot of users have in their sigs that they've lately (in the last year or so) switched to macs...

So. Who here has never had to SWITCH to macs? Who knows the "horrors" ;) of the PC world only through computers that you didn'y pay for (thank god).

:D
 
I have only used PC at my parents (and through different jobs and internett cafes).

I lived with two graphic designers when I studied in London, they (luckily) got me into Macs. I went out and bought a Performa 5400, ALL black with matching keyboard and mouse. It had a TV tuner as well. I thought it was amazing
 
The only time there has ever been a non-apple computer in my house is when I got an old one for free that someone was going to through away. Played with it for a month and then took it to a computer recycling place.
 
I had an Acorn Electron then an Arcimedes then an Atari STFM.
Then a long gap and finally a 7500/100.
 
The first computer for our family was an IBM Aptiva 486 DX4 100mhz with 8 MB of ram and an 80 MB HD. My first computer though was a Powermac G4 Quicksilver 733 mhz. I now have a PowerMac G5 dual 2.5 Ghz. Go Mac! :)
 
Only ever used PCs at work. Been using Macs at home since 1990. Who'd want an ugly PC box in their home?
 
Well, I'm affraid that I can make no such claim of cherishing my mac from the very beginning...

My first (as pictured) PC was a Packard Bell 75Mhz Intel Pentium running Windows 95 with 1.5 G Hard Drive...the fun! I had to reformat that thing at least 8 times a year. Oh the joy.

still, in September 2003 I switched to my Ti Powerbook, and have never looked back. For some reason, I have an uncontrollable urge to Buy An eMac, A Mac mini, An ibook and a Powermac since that date.

The wallet has since told me I cannot sustain that amount of purchasing...
 

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I've only owned apple computers (about 15yrs; been using them since birth?) and use other PCs when I don't have a choice (...at school, friend's house etc). Everybody in my family own Macs.
 
Maxiseller said:
Well, I'm affraid that I can make no such claim of cherishing my mac from the very beginning...

My first (as pictured) PC was a Packard Bell 75Mhz Intel Pentium running Windows 95 with 1.5 G Hard Drive...the fun! I had to reformat that thing at least 8 times a year. Oh the joy.

still, in September 2003 I switched to my Ti Powerbook, and have never looked back. For some reason, I have an uncontrollable urge to Buy An eMac, A Mac mini, An ibook and a Powermac since that date.

The wallet has since told me I cannot sustain that amount of purchasing...
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HAHA! We used to have that exact same computer!

We had all PC's until 4 years ago, when my parents bought an eMac. They also bought an iMac G5 last year.
 
Raised on Apples. First an Apple IIc, then the LC II (68040) with a special math coprocessor, replaced by a Performa 6320CD during Apple's dark age of the mid-90s, this machine was booted by a 733 Mhz Rev. A PowerMac Quicksilver which the family still uses as the primary machine. I got a Rev. A 15" 1.25 Ghz Alu PowerBook. I have also got an old Ruby iMac that works as a media server/BitTorrent machine, and I recently got an old Pismo for when I need a long battery, but not much power on the go (with a high capacity battery an a decent standard battery I can get 10-15 hours of battery life).

I'm highly anticipating the intel iBook, and unless it has integrated graphics I'm very likely to get one.
 
I have never purchased a Windows PC, nor have I ever had to live in a house with a Windows PC... until I got married. My wife has one to use some programs for law school. Fortunately, I will be able to avoid a similar fate provided they release the Intel iBooks before I start!
 
My family had an old IBM before we brought a PowerMac(one of the grey ones). Since then we have only had macs, had to use PC's in school, which reminded me why we kept using macs.....
 
Huh.. I have to use PCs in my business -- it's got to the point where it is cheaper to buy a new machine for $480 than it is to troubleshoot why the CD burner isn't working in a 3 year old one.

Literally -- I found two staff members spending all day trying to fix a machine -- I dropped a new HP Sempron in front of them and told them to get back to work -- they had burned up more billable time in labour than the cost of the new machine....

Welcome to the age of the disposable computer.
 
I got given one. Does that count?

It was a crappy Toshiba Satellite Pro with a whopping 32MB RAM, but I could cart it round to clients with all my documentation and tools on (it was quite a bit lighter than my iMac G3). The screen went funny on it in the end, every time you moved the hinge you would lose the bottom quarter, and the battery life was down to about five minutes. By that time though the first 12" PowerBooks were out so I got one of those :)

Ugh. I've just remembered it had Windows 98 Second Edition on it. :eek: That lovely blue screen you got when a resource went unavailable PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE. :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
bobber205 said:
So. Who here has never had to SWITCH to macs?
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First computer I ever had at home was a 'mac plus'

second was a mac LC 475

the first computer I ever bought was in 2001:
AMD 1000
128mb SDRAM
GeForce2 MX
30GB HDD
Gigabyte Mobo etc...

was running fine up until a power surge last november, no viriuses no spyware, no add ware, etc...

now running:
PIII 600MHz, 100Mhz FSB
384mb SDRAM PC133
2GB HDD (Just enough to install windows XP, but am borrowing an 80GB externald drive)
Voodoo5 5500 dualcore craphhics card (just because it's cool)
some rat **** mobo, with a USB2 and IEEE 1394 card

Never had any software issues as I've only ever run XP, just when powwer surges have struck

Takumi

P.S: notes current complet eurgonomic nightmare, including Left hand mouse usage, right hand joystick, playing games and computing looking over the right sholder
 

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Duff-Man says.....I have only ever owned Macs. I work all day supporting a windoze network - that's enough of that world for me.....oh yeah!
 
stoid said:
Raised on Apples. First an Apple IIc, then the LC II (68040) with a special math coprocessor, replaced by a Performa 6320CD during Apple's dark age of the mid-90s, this machine was booted by a 733 Mhz Rev. A PowerMac Quicksilver which the family still uses as the primary machine. I got a Rev. A 15" 1.25 Ghz Alu PowerBook. I have also got an old Ruby iMac that works as a media server/BitTorrent machine, and I recently got an old Pismo for when I need a long battery, but not much power on the go (with a high capacity battery an a decent standard battery I can get 10-15 hours of battery life).

I'm highly anticipating the intel iBook, and unless it has integrated graphics I'm very likely to get one.
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Mine is the same for the bold part.
We just got a Macintosh SE with a whoppin' 1 Mb RAM and two 800 k drives for $5 at a garage sale, my dad said it doesn't work, I have not tried it yet.
 
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