I don't have the depth of mac history as a lot of you do... I've really only owned 4 macs.

- Original 128k Mac, later upgraded to Fat Mac and then Mac Plus.

- G4 Mac Mini

- Core Duo Mac Mini

- MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz (15")


My family also had Apple II systems while I was growing up. Specifically, my brother did. He used to let me use his computer if I typed in enough code from Byte magazine for him. I think the goal was that I'd absorb some of it, but sadly I learned very little and didn't learn programming until much later.

The Mac 128k was purchased not long after the Macs came out. It was a huge sacrifice for my parents at the time... thinking back now, I'm amazed they managed to afford it. My dad also got one. We both upgraded to Fat Macs and then Mac Plus configurations as those became available. We then added SuperMac 20 megabyte SCSI hard drives which were around $700 apiece at the time, IIRC.

Unfortunately I went the PC route for many years. Let's face it, for a time Windows 95 was more compelling than the Mac OS, but mostly it was because I could get PC's cheap through work, and my Mac was really struggling at that point. If only I'd kept that Mac though... /me weeps.

My first Mac since was a G4 Mac Mini, purchased in Nov of 2005. I then moved on to a Core Duo Mini in March or April of 2006. Finally, I picked up a Macbook Pro in late November, early December time frame of 2006.

I'm not a novice computer user by any means, and I've learned a lot about OS X, but of course I'm still learning all the time.

I also have a 30 gig iPod "video" and now a 16 gig iPod Touch.

Hmmm, let's see...

Mac 512 -> Mac Plus -> 4 MB -> Brainstorm Accelerator Plus

Quadra 605 -> Macintosh Processor Upgrade (50 MHz) -> DayStar Digital PowerCard 601 (100 MHz)

Performa 6300CD -> Apple TV/Video System

Power Mac G4 (450 MHz) -> Dual 500 MHz G4 (Gigabit) 2 GB

Power Mac G4 (533 MHz Digital Audio) -> FastMac G4 1.47 GHz 1.5 GB

iMac G3 (Lime 400 MHz) 1 GB
iMac G3 (Grape 400 MHz) 1 GB

iMac G5 17" 1.8 GHz 2 GB

MacBook 13" 2 GHz 2 GB

And I did use a Mac SE (Levco '020), Mac SE 30, and Mac II when I used to work at SuperMac Technology.

I've just added...

Power Mac G4 MDD (FW800) Dual 1.25 GHz 2 GB

24" iMac 2.4 GHz 2 GB

As for other Apple products, I also have an Apple TV, AirPort Extreme (802.11g), 2 AirPort Expresses (802.11g), and an AirPort Extreme (802.11n Fast Ethernet).

As for iPods, we got a 2G iPod, iPod Photo (60 GB), video iPod (30 GB), iPod Shuffle (1 GB), 2 iPod Nanos (2 GB), iPod Nano (4 GB), and an iPhone (8 GB).

Latest update...

I just picked up a Power Mac G5 (Late 2005). Dual-core 2.0 GHz.

scottaw, r8ders2k,

Welcome to the club. Great bunch of people here that usually know what's up with that Mac. If not, they know where to find out.

My Mac experience is probably a bit less in-depth than either of you, but I've learned a lot since hanging round here.

Be seeing you around,
Chris

i knew someone that had a G5, so i got to use that. Then i got a iMac g3 bondi blue. Then now i have a used iMac G4 15' 1GHz

I have a mac mini, My first mac about 1 1/2 years now intel based.It is great love ilife and imovie.

Hello everyone:
I'm macGrandpa from NC, USA.
I'm currently using...
Model: Power Mac G4
CPU-type: PowerPC G4 (3.3)
Antal processorer: 1
CPU-hastighed: 1.25 GHz
L2-buffer (pr. CPU): 256 K
L3-buffer (pr. CPU): 1 MB
Hukommelse: 768 MB
Bushastighed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM-version: 4.4.8f2

Running Os 9.2.2 and OS X 10.3.9

I also own a still fuctioning G-3. the last true desktop model.
I use it to output via appletalk to my Mac Laserprinter.

I started using apple 2's and Mac 512K's in my job in 1985 or 86.
My first purchased Mac was a Plus in 1987 with which I started a Desktop Publishing business.

My second was a use SE
then a used II ci then my G-3.
I have owned my G-4 since 2002, I believe.

I am Mac all the way. I have Windows XP on my G-4 but only use it for games!

The new OS X packages are nice, but I miss the old OS's and still use 9.2.2 often. I understand it and can find everything in it.

My dream is to own a top of the line powerbook with all the bells and whistles.

macGrandpa is not just for my age but because I have 2 grandsons ages 9 and 5.

New Mac user as of

7/12/07(Got SICK AND TIRED OF WINDOWS)!!!!!!

MacBook(White)2.0GHz,1GB Ram,80GB HD,GMA950



And I love it.........

Stick around. It only gets better. We have a great community here

Welcome to the group applerulz. Nice start you have on YouTube there.

http://www.youtube.com/user/applerulz

Who-whee! Just got my second Mac!

http://home.earthlink.net/~alpinequeen/id48.html

And this is the first one.

http://home.earthlink.net/~alpinequeen/id27.html

I got the G5 three years ago from Amazon with a $100 rebate which made the price $1399. The Macbook was $1299 at the new Apple store in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Nice rigs, alpinequeen. Congrats on the new notebook.

The first computer we had was the Apple II Gs. That was when the internet was pretty much just bullentin boards. Looking back, I can't remeber every having problems with that machine.
Growing up my best friends family owned a graphic design shop. My friends father always had the lastest and greastest Mac. I remeber the first time he showed me a cd burner, it cost him like $500 or close to that.
The mac I'm using now I got by trading with a friend. I gave her a windows pc with like 2 or 3 times the hardware. But the great thing is that, in my opinion, the mac is faster.
I am a A+ certified PC technician. All my training and learning about windows has only made me more of a Mac fan. I like to create, be it music, surf videos, and other a/v type arts. Goes with out saying I've never been happier with a computer then I currently am. Saving up to get an intel mac with more hardware.

Greetings all!

Here is the history:

•Started using Macs in H.S. (some type of IIe "portables" I think?) They had the floppy drive built right into the unit under the keyboard with the "green screen". I'm sure I'm not describing it correctly.) I looked for it on MacTracker but couldn't find it. Perhaps someone can clue me in on that.

•College use was SE/SEs, IIx w/laserwriters, SE30s, IIcx and the LCII with personal Laserwriters

•After college on to the 5300CD

•Currently using 12" PWRBK 1Ghz 512 running Leopard

•2 400 Mhz DV iMacs for my kids to play Command and Conquer on during family "Game Nights"

•1 slot loading 350 Mhz Blueberry for same as above

•1 slot loading 500 Mhz Dalmatian for use as family jukebox piped to a stereo sending music to the finished basement and kitchen area/controllable via Leopard laptop screen share

•1 1.83 Ghz Mac Mini

•2 Power Computing-PowerTowers 400 Mhz

•1 Power Computing-PowerCenter

•various work Macs serving students' needs: Quadra 950, LC5260s, LC5400s, various PowerMac twrs, many many DV iMacs, Graphite iMacs, 1 Ghz eMacs, G4 PowerMacs + DP Macs (retired servers now serving kids)

•G4 Xserve I purchased off eBay (replaced all 4 hard drives and had it put in as server for K-2 Primary Center)

•16 G3 and G4 iBooks on wireless cart serving Grades 3-5 Elementary building

And that I think is all the Macs I own and work with.... Oh... and ONE eMate

•1 original 5GB iPod

•1 current version of iPod shuffle 1GB (for landscaping and mowing the lawn)

Nice to meet everyone and enjoyed reading all of your experiences out there in Mac land.

All started a fair time ago when I sold my Atari 520ST and bought -

Performa 400 - Used an SE30 at Uni and this made a lot of sense.
Powerbook 520c - Excellent machine, dual monitor support!!
Powermac 9200 - 90MHz of raw power (still in use by my brothers kids)
PowerMac G3 400MHz - Blue and White some issues with modems. Power supply died this year (replaced with a G4 400MHz from e:bay but transfered the blue and white panels !!! memory, HDD, video card etc...)
IBM 240z laptop (500MHz P3) (What can I say, I needed a Windoze machine to run some data logging software) still used.

PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5GHz - Dog of a machine, nothing but trouble so far.

All in all I'm a real Mac fan - At some point I want MacBook, but waiting for a small format (could give-in at any moment though!!)

My current machine is the G5 which had seemingly random shutdowns that were explained as "possible software conflicts, have I upgraded to the latest OS?" by the Apple help lines. And just after it went out of warranty I diagnosed them as the dreaded "thermal runaway" errors from CPU B reaching >103°C and forcing a sleep. So with occasional sleeps, noisy fans, 2 dead hard drives, 2 dead graphics cards (Because these were ATI X800XT's there were no replacements and I'm now using the older Radeon 9600 type) and an inability to restart the machine without thoroughly cooling it for 10mins with a desk fan first. I'm a bit fed up with it.

So much so that I have bought Dell machines running XP Pro for my office - not great but they will do until I can be sure these issues are solved. I must admit there were other factors here, but if my G5 had been good I would have forced my colleagues to go Mac !!!

Currently looking at a Mac mini for a media server to join my Airport extreme + express wireless. But as I want to play networked games as well, I'm waiting until the graphics options improve. Or I could buy AppleTV and buy a MacBook for the gaming/work stuff - Choices ... choices ... hmmm

Hope this was of interest to someone

T

Toasted, glad you joined our group. Great bunch of Mac lovin' folk here.

Have you thought about the new iMac for your next upgrade? The 24" model with up to 3.06 GHz C2D, larger HD storage, improved graphics (NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS, 512MB) and 802.11n wireless technology built-in - would run circles round the Mac Mini.

You could have your cake and eat it too!