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What was your first apple product?
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Performa 400 for me way back in 92 4mb ram 40 mb hd 2.5" floppy. I remember a friend telling me i'll never need more than 4mb of ram, his machine had 512k ram i think.
I've since had performa 630
Beige G3 tower
imac special edition graphite
ibook g3 500mhz
ibook g4 800mhz
white macbook c2d 2.2ghz
ipod 1st gen
ipod mini
ipod shuffle
iphone
airport extreme
man i've spent a lot of money on apple, and that isn't counting software, upgrades and repairs.
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A PowerBook 150 w. a Personal Laser Writer 300, then nothing after it died until the original Bondi iMac, then that became an indigo iMac, along w. an iBook G3 700Mhz, then a 15" AlBook, then the C2D iMac in the sig and the MBP in the sig.
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15" MacBook Pro 2.0GHz i7 4GB RAM 6490M 120GB OWC 6G SSD 500GB HD
15" MacBook Pro 2.4GHz C2D 2GB RAM 8600M GT 200GB HD
17" C2D iMac 2.0GHz 2GB RAM x1600 500GB HD
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1989: Used Macintosh SE, 1MB RAM / 20MB Seagate Hard drive / 800k floppy drive / Apple Extended Keyboard.
Came with an ImageWriter II with Sheet Feeder.
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My first Apple items were a PowerMac Dual 1.8GHz G5 and a 23" ACD.
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Macintosh SE FDHD. Eventually got a hard drive for it. I had an Imagewriter II with it.
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8 Core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro/GF8800/2 23" Cinema Displays, 3.06 ghz Macbook Pro
Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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Mac Classic II was my first.
Dozens have since followed, but my favorites are the G4 Sawtooth and Xeon Quad.
Least favorite is my MBP rev 2 - poor thing can't handle rough travel and tends bend to a bit too easily, though it is a little speed demon.
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"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
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1987: Mac Plus/2.5MB RAM/20MB Apple external hard drive/ImageWriter II
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I am stupidest when I try to be funny.
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'89 Mac Plus. I had a 40 MB SCSI external drive that I used with my Atari ST that cost me $750 and the Mac Plus wouldn't see it because it had to be formatted with a third party app which the store I got it from was happy to help with, and let me keep.
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Performa 575 with 250mb hard drive,33mhz processor, 5mb RAM, and 256K video ram
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Mac Portable (1989)
I had been using Macs in school for a few years prior, but this was the first Mac we had in our home.
I still have it.
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Apple //e Platinum:
Dual Floppy
Color CRT
128K RAM upgrade
80-column card
3x Serial Cards
Mouse
2x Joysticks
Printer
300 baud coupler
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Do you mean personally owned or first used? The first Apple product I used was an Apple IIe in a school computer lab in the first grade.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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What can you actually DO with that?
Originally Posted by ::maroma::
Mac Portable (1989)
I had been using Macs in school for a few years prior, but this was the first Mac we had in our home.
I still have it.
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Macintosh IIx (or something like it)
Performa 475 25Mhz
PowerMac 7200 (or something like it)
PowerMac 8200 120Mhz
PowerMac 4400 166Mhz
iBook G4 1.2Ghz
iBook G3 500Mhz
Classic 2
PowerMac G3 350Mhz x 2
PowerBook G4 12" 1.33Ghz
iBook G3 900Mhz
PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 733Mhz
MacBook C2D 2Ghz
Performa 475 and one of the PowerMac G3s are all I have left.
Refurbed MacBook arrived yesterday
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Ha!
Apple ][ plus.
Eat it young'uns
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Owned
PowerMac 6100/60
PowerMac 8500/120
PowerMac G3 (blue/white) 400
PowerMac Dual 500
PowerMac 733 (Quicksilver)
PowerBook 5300c
PowerBook G4 500 (Titanium)
PowerBook G4 1.25 (Aluminum)
MacBook Pro 1.8CD
Used
Apple I
Apple II
Mac Plus
Mac Classic
Mac Performa
Never bothered with a Mac earlier because, I was an Amiga (500 and 2000) guy till Commodore went under so the 6100 was my first owned Mac.
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Originally Posted by subego
Apple ][ plus.
same here
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one post closer to five stars
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My first apple was probably a Granny Smith, sometime in 1979 or 79.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
My first apple was probably a Granny Smith, sometime in 1979 or 79.
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1979 or 79?
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Originally Posted by residentEvil
1979 or 79?
You're right, it might have been 1979 instead
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Powerbook Wallstreet
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"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's."
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Originally Posted by starman
What can you actually DO with that?
Take pictures of it and post them on internet forums.
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Originally Posted by starman
What can you actually DO with that?
Sit-ups.
First Apple product: the G4 PowerBook that’s currently sitting unused on my desk, waiting for me to clean out the HD, so I can sell it and get a bit of money out of it.
Makes me sad to have to sell it, but I really have no use for it anymore with both a MacBook and a Mac Pro as its replacement.
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What I've owned and where they are now, in order.
Apple //c - Parents' house
Apple IIgs - My house
Power Macintosh 7600/120 - My house
Lombard Powerbook G3/400 MHz - Brother owns it
QuickSilver Power Mac G4/867 MHz - Brother owns it
Titanium PowerBook G4/1 GHz - My house
Power Mac G5 dual 2.0 GHz - My house
17" iMac Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz - My office at work
15" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz - My house
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iBook G4 1 GHz, 256MB RAM, 30 GB HD, OS X 10.3
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512k. i remember the shuffle to make sure that the disk you were putting in there had a system folder on it.
while we're at it, what's the oldest file on your computer?
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Professional Poster
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The first Mac we had was an SE/30 with the SuperDrive... the ORIGINAL superdrive.
My first computer that was mine and mine alone was a Lime rev3 iMac. For graduation.
The first computer that I bought on my own was a PowerMac G4 (Sawtooth, 400mhz). I still have it, and it's been upgraded quite a bit. My wife says if I can provide half the cash (on my own, not coming from my regular job), we'll cover the rest for a new iMac.
My history:
SE/30
IIci
PM 6100
iMac 333
--- After this line, I still have this stuff ---
PowerMac G4
Lombard - broken
Pismo - needs a power inverter board
Wallstreet - works great.
PowerMac 466 I'm trying to sell.
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
8gb iPhone on Tmobile
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Mac Plus, Performa, eMac, iMac G5, MacBook, iMac 17", iMac 20", iMac 20" Aluminum, another MacBook.
In order.
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Originally Posted by starman
What can you actually DO with that?
These days, nothing. But back then, I remember making a sweet animation in a drawing program we had. Also made a comic strip for a class I was taking. Its good memories.
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iMac Rev. A.
I pre-ordered it without having seen it except for vague pictures in a magazine a friend had. I remember picking it up on release day Aug 15th, 1998.
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Apple ][gs (unless you count my dad's 128k Mac, but I was pretty small then, the ][gs was my first Apple product)
After that, I think it was a Macintosh IIsi. Then a LC II. Then... uh... I guess the PowerComputing something or other which wasn't really an Apple product, then a PoweMac G3, then a Pismo, then a PowerMac G5, then a MacBook, now an iMac.
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• Classic II
• LC 475
• PowerBook 5300cs
• iMac DV+
• iBook 500
• iBook 800
• iMac G5
• Aluminum iMac
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If we're talking Apple products, then it was the iPod shuffle my ex bought me for my birthday in 2006. I remember I almost got myself killed by loudly complaining a few days later that I didn't want it because "there are coloured ones now. I want a coloured one." I was kidding, but she was outraged nonetheless (and she put up with a lot, poor girl).
If we're talking computers, then it was the 20" iMac G4--best computer Apple ever made. Then came the 466 Graphite Clamshell, followed by a Cube with a 22" ADC Cinema Display. And, as of yesterday, a 366 Lime Clamshell. I think I have a problem. That said, looking around this thread, I'm not the only one at least.
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Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n
512k. i remember the shuffle to make sure that the disk you were putting in there had a system folder on it.
Likewise, I started out with a Mac 512k, and soon afterwards went to a Mac Plus. The endless floppy disk swapping between the system disk and the application/documents disk(s) was very painful when there was something that couldn't fit all on one floppy.
Didn't take long before I plugged an external floppy drive into the Mac Plus so that I could leave the system disk in the built in drive permanently, and use the external for applications and documents.
After that, a Mac Classic, an LC II, a 6400 A/V (that was the best machine I've ever had for it's time), an iBook Graphite SE, aluminium 12" G4 PowerBook, and now and 13" MacBook.
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This is the first Apple product I ever bought. It was another 3 years before I could afford to get a Mac of my own.
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performa 6400 w/ 15" apple crt display and apple stylus writer printer
180 mhz!
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Oh yeah, I had a MessagePad 100, a gaggle of iPods, and now an iPhone as well. Plus a bunch of Apple software...
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The iMac rev A
The first Mac I ever worked on was an Apple ][e
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Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n
while we're at it, what's the oldest file on your computer?
Old phone numbers from college.
PHONE.DOC - Oct. 20, 1987
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Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n
while we're at it, what's the oldest file on your computer?
Ooh, good question. It appears that I have a many-way tie as I apparently still have an electronic copy of a particular book which is frequently stolen from libraries with each of the chapters as a separate SimpleText file...
The files date to Nov. 20 '85.
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First Apple: Used 20GB iPod
First Mac: 1.8Ghz/64GB MacBook Air
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That's pretty surprising mduell.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Wife's Family: 1980s, Apple IIe
Wife: 1997 PM 7300, 200MHz 604e
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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Power Mac G4 Cube 450
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For me personally, it was a 266MHz Tangerine iMac.
My first experience was on an Apple IIe in elementary school I believe. I became convinced that I needed one at home from recording with a friend using Opcode's Studio Vision on a quadra.
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iBook G3 800 running 10.2
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If we could have afforded it, a Mac SE in early 1988. As it turns out, we got our first Apple product in 2003-an 800MHz G4 iBook. Then came iPods, my MBP, and latest my iMac this past fall.
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Apple IIgs around 1986-7.
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