What's Your Mac Story?

shawnj

My mom was a graphic designer in the 70's and 80's. Then she taught in college in the mass communications department, so she was preparing students for careers in the print and broadcast industries. Naturally, those industries were Mac-centric back then. So she brought our first Mac home in the late 80's and I've been using them ever since. I don't remember our first, but later we had a IIcx, a PowerMac #s, and a PowerMac G3 B+W. My first was a PowerBook G4, and now I'm using a MacBook Pro.



So what's your Mac story?

-nova-

In high school, I had a Communications and Technology Class. I observed the Mac videos online to see what it could do, and I was amazed. So voila, here I am.

yvon

I am a new mac user after 15 years on windows and linux.

I've been thinking about getting a mac for years. And lately I was looking at the online. Last week we where at future shop and we looked at the macbook. They where nice, and y wife and thought that maybe next year we will change our computer for 2 macbook. We where in the parking lot getting back to the car and we where talking about how nice it would be, we could get ride of my desktop in the living room etc...



She turned around and said: Let's go get them



I sold her dell laptop and my desktop. And now we are windows free.

ireland

I bought an iMac and I liked it. That's mine.

shawnj

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Originally Posted by Yvon


I am a new mac user after 15 years on windows and linux.

I've been thinking about getting a mac for years. And lately I was looking at the online. Last week we where at future shop and we looked at the macbook. They where nice, and y wife and thought that maybe next year we will change our computer for 2 macbook. We where in the parking lot getting back to the car and we where talking about how nice it would be, we could get ride of my desktop in the living room etc...



She turned around and said: Let's go get them



I sold her dell laptop and my desktop. And now we are windows free.

Last week? Good job!

mydo

My father worked for major defense contractor back in the day. Pre Windows 3.0. He had a Mac that he lugged around. He never left Macs for home use after that.

j120387

hmm lets see.... my dad decided he wanted to try out mac since we didnt have a family computer at the time: it was a power macintosh (http://www.maccollector.com/images/C...osh6300120.jpg) and then after a few years the family computer converted to windows. i finally came back to the mac side about two years ago with when i bought own notebook computer (my macbook) and i just recently sold it and now have a macbook pro.

tonton

I first used a Mac in an extracurricular computer class when the 512k was the new model. We did some programming in Logo but all I can remember is playing Lode Runner.



I next used a Mac in high school. I went to a pretty exclusive California boarding school, and we had plenty of classmates with money. I used my friends' Macs occasionally, both for some work as well as playing Rogue, and later Arkanoid. I myself, having been a C64 user, settled for an Amiga 1000, which a the time was far advanced in graphics and sound compared to the Mac Plus of the time, but was cheaper and had less professional support.



I bought my first Mac, a Performa 450 (LCIII without the FPU) when I got my first credit card -- a Sears card -- my first year in College. Never left the Mac fold from there.



I used PC's plenty of times, notably in high school for AP Comp Science class, but I was always amazed at how primitive Windows 3.1 was compared to the Mac OS. I wondered how people could put up with that kind of an interface.

bspears

Programmed an Apple II in electrophysiology lab in 1981/82. Bought my first Mac in 1987 as an intern and have never looked back.

shawnj

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Originally Posted by bspears


Programmed an Apple II in electrophysiology lab in 1981/82. Bought my first Mac in 1987 as an intern and have never looked back.

Happy belated 20 years!