[The Mick]

So do you hate me? I also bought a 20" Cinema display along with it, put in another 512MB of RAM and AppleCare. I'm loving it so far, almost totally silent, very snappy and beautiful to look at.

[sailin74]

Congrats... Jealous here... Nice display even!

[RooneyX]

No one but an experience Maccie who has tasted less snappier versions of OSX would say 'snappy'!

[Jermsy]

OSX feels "snappy" on my PBG4 500, I still don't know what everyone has against it.

[OldManMac]

Congratulations! I'm Jealous!

[Superchicken]

just got a 900Mhz iBook... honestly I'm not jealous this thing is sweet.

[kcourt]

Your firstt Mac - I remember the day! When I get the G5, this will be my fifth one.


You'll need to come back ever so often and fill us in on how you are growing to like it more and more, day by day!


Once a Mac user, always a Mac lover!

[businezguy]

Congratulations on your first Mac!

You've definately picked a good machine and display to get started with the Mac platform. I'm sure you'll find that this will be a reliable machine for a few years.

Enjoy!

[PKRADD]

Congrats. Is it a boy or a girl? How much does he or she weigh. Have a name yet?

[Arkham_c]

Sounds like a great first Mac. I've had quite a few:

1) Mac SE
3) Classic II
2) IIsi
3) 660av
4) 7500/100 (with 604/604e upgrades at 133,150,dual 180, 200, dual 200, and 250 MHz, a G3/400 upgrade, and later a Genesis case)
5) iBook/300
6) G4/450
7) iBook/600

I've also got a salvage original Mac portable that boots but never gets to a prompt (needs a new hard drive).

I hope to add a G5 to the list before the end of the year.

[blueshift]

Me...

Apple II GS (Not Quite a Mac)

then i took an apple break....i've had many x86 PC..but I'm a unix person...and the promise of OS X plus, affordable and easy 802.11b wireless convinced me to add an

First Rev 300Mhz Blueberry iBook

and I've since sold that and own an

First Rev 500Mhz Powerbook G4

and "on or before 9/23" a

First Rev Power Mac G5 Dual 2Ghz

to match my 3Ghz Pentium4

[cambro]

Originally posted by Jermsy:
OSX feels "snappy" on my PBG4 500, I still don't know what everyone has against it.

No sh*t. Same thing here. I think it is a general mood left over from the days of pre 10.1. I fully admit that 10.0 on my 400 Mhz Pismo was darn right painful sometimes. But now, even on that same machine, 10.2 does pretty well. Put it on a more adequate machine and X is great.

Oh, and Mick, congrats!

P.S. If you have a few extra bucks sometime, slap another 512 or 256 stick of RAM in there! You won't regre it!!!

[t_hah]

Congratulations! You will love it I am sure. The G5 is an awsome machine. Enjoy!


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[Tarcat]

My first mac ever was a Classic. 2 megs of ram, 40 mb hard drive, system 6.7.

[Xtraz]

Originally posted by Jermsy:
OSX feels "snappy" on my PBG4 500, I still don't know what everyone has against it.

I have a PBG4 500 also and i agree completely. Having tried the new Ghz powerbooks mine feels just as 'snappy'.

But yeah not to veer off topic, congraduations on your first and awesome mac.

Yes, I hate you.

[slipjack]

Let's see:

0) Apple ][e

1) Japanese version 180c

2) Quadra 840av

3) 8500 tower

4) SUPERMac J740 (Clone... sweeeeet. Still have it.)

5) G4 350 Yikes

5a) Powerbook G3 400Mhz Lombard (Still use)

6) G4 1Ghz dual (current machine)

7) ????

[DP867_User]

For me it was

- Classic (I'll never forget it)
- Powerbook Duo 230 (so small and so practical)
- All-in-one 5200 (The color appeared here)
- Umax Clone (603e/200Mhz) (Good price but not really a mac)
- G3 Desktop 266Mhz (Going to the roots, wonderful piece)
- Powerbook Pismo G3 500 (My favourite mac! Why I sold it????)
- Powermac G4 400Mhz
- Powermac dual 867Mhz (the noise my friends, the noise...)
- Powerbook G4 867 12" (so small and so speedy)

Always good times with their machines, rest in peace :-)

[ebuddy]

I only hate the Mickster because I'm still on waitlist for my G5 Dually. Kidding, I don't hate Mick. Dare I say; "NICE MACHINE, CONGRATS!!!"

I also got the 20" Cinema display sitting here with thin-foam covering over it waiting on it's soulmate. It's my understanding (though I haven't read on it around here) that the 20" is the "sweetspot" monitor and is supposedly a better display than the 23" HD Cinema. Anyone else hear about this?

On or before late September....

[AssassyN]

Eh, most say the 20" is "OMGOMGBETTER!" than the 23" HD Display because the luminance is just slightly higher in the 20". The truth of the matter is that the 20" is an incredible display, but when it comes to monitors, bigger IS better, and there's no denying that. If you think the image quality/color of the 23" Display is bad, then the 20" won't impress either. It's more a sweetspot in value than in features, I still think anyone with the cash to spare should opt for the bigger screen.

[The Mick]

The 20" really is a large screen. I'm still not used to how big it is. The picture quality is just awesome.

[awcopus]

Congrats on new Mac. I agree with Assassyn about going for the 23". Have it, love the size, can't imagine having anything smaller.

I really like the fact that people are posting their history of Mac purchases. Cool to see the paths people have taken. My path...

1. Mac 128k (can you believe it, I used this think to lay out my high school's newspaper with Aldus Pagemaker)
2. SE 2/40MB
3. IIsi 17/80MB (first color Mac, Apple 13" monitor)
4. Apple Laserwriter NTR (first Apple implementation of RISC processors)
5. PowerBook 520c
6. 7300 512/4000MB
7. G3 266 512/20000MB
8. iMac 400DVSE (first slot loading Mac)
9. Apple Laserwriter 8500
10. Cube 450 1.5GB/
11. 22" Cinema Display
12. iBook 600 640/30000MB
13. Quicksilver 933 2GB/600000MB
14. MDD Dual 1.42 2GB/4x250GB HDs
15. 23" HD Cinema Display
16. 30GB iPod
17. iSight

Of these devices, none of them ever failed. Some quirky behavior from the G3/266, and a Cube Radeon card that went south, but otherwise no significant problems.

End of next year, I'm upgrading to a G5 duallie, and there's bound to be a PowerBook in my future. I hope my twentieth Mac item will be something none of us has seen yet, some crazy cool lifestyle device like sunglasses with wireless internet access running OS X that respond to my iris.

[Axel]

Originally posted by awcopus:

1. Mac 128k (can you believe it, I used this think to lay out my high school's newspaper with Aldus Pagemaker)
2. SE 2/40MB
3. IIsi 17/80MB (first color Mac, Apple 13" monitor)
4. Apple Laserwriter NTR (first Apple implementation of RISC processors)
5. PowerBook 520c
6. 7300 512/4000MB
7. G3 266 512/20000MB
8. iMac 400DVSE (first slot loading Mac)
9. Apple Laserwriter 8500
10. Cube 450 1.5GB/
11. 22" Cinema Display
12. iBook 600 640/30000MB
13. Quicksilver 933 2GB/600000MB
14. MDD Dual 1.42 2GB/4x250GB HDs
15. 23" HD Cinema Display
16. 30GB iPod
17. iSight

you're insane

[jcadam]

ay, I must post my computing history....

1) Apple ][e

2) Amiga 500

3) Amiga 1200, in denial for a while after the death of the platform, eventually had to sell to buy....

4) Dell 486SX 25Mhz

5) Pentium 120 (self built)

6) AMD K6-2 400 (self built)

7) Athlon 650 (self built)

8) Athlon 1200 (self built)

9) Beige PowerMac G3, purchased from eBay for cheap, just to mess around with (within the next year I sold my PC )

10) B&W Powermac G3 550Mhz (self built from an ATX case and parts acquired from various places including eBay)

11) iBook 600 (my first brand new mac, also my first notebook)

12) Powermac G4 Dual 867 (MDD), modified with the noise reduction kit

In a year, I'll probably add a G5.

[olePigeon]

Just don't ask Cipher to list his computers.

Me:

1) Apple //e
2) Apple IIvx (yeah yeah, I know)
3) Performa 6200 (Ok, stop laughing!)
4) PowerMac 8600/300
5) PowerMac G3/233
6) ColorClassic 68030/20

[Catfish_Man]

Quadra 605
Beige G3 233
Dual 867 MDD G4

[awcopus]

Originally posted by Axel:

you're insane

I prefer "passionate." LOL!

"Insane" would be a similar list of Wintel machines. That would be totally "lock'm up, throw away key" bonkers.

[sibellc]

Mac II- purchased with a whopping 5 megs of ram-at $500 a meg. Those where the days! Whatever happened to PAL SIMMs? Fond memories of system 6.0.7: long live Multifinder!
Quadra 700
PowerCenter 132
PowerMac 9600/350
PowerBook G3 "Firewire"
iMac G4
Expecting 2Ghz G5 twins in a month of two :-)

CBS

[daftpig]

Originally posted by The Mick:
So do you hate me? ...

I doubt anyone would hate you... Somehow mac users just rejoice when they hear of how someone gets a lovely new mac!

[MusicalTone]

Congrats Mick. You certainly racked up a lot of posts on a Mac forum without actually owning one!

My computer history over the past 15 years goes something like: PC, PC, PC, PC, PC, PC, PC, PowerBook G4 15" 1Ghz.

Havnt used a PC since I got the PB!