[Randman]

I've had to work on PCs over the course of my career, and I do have Virtual PC but I've never owned a PC, just Macs all the way.
Was wondering how many others here have a similar story.

[shmerek]

I have only had two computers in my life and both were macs (currently I have none )

[Love Calm Quiet]

When I moved up from a commode door (~1985) I got a Mac - and never looked back.

[Gankdawg]

Macs only. Wherever I've worked, I've had access to PCs so no need to buy one.

[jbartone]

I'm the loser who chose option 3.

I plan to get an iMac G5 for Christmas after I move, though

*suffering from severe case of Mac Envy*

[effgee]

Own a dellbox™ to check the look 'n feel of sites I design. At a new job a couple of years ago they gave me an HP laptop - tried it for a week, then handed it back to the IT guys and told 'em to get me a Powerbook instead - productivity went up after that. Thinking of getting a win laptop to replace the dellbox™ ... ugh ...

[Toutgood]

Have had a few pcs. My 99 Toshiba laptop was a great machine. It's still alive and running RedHat 6.2.

[Athens]

ive had about 10 PC's and 7 macs since 1997

[badidea]

LC II -> Quadra 630 -> Quadra 840av -> PowerMac 7300 -> Quicksilver G4/733(now 1.4GHz) ... hmmm ... no, can't see no PC!

[nredman]

1st - IBM Thinkpad
2nd - Powerbook G3
3rd - iMac G3 (Graphite SE)
4th - iBook G3 (Indigo)
5th - iMac G3 (Snow)
6th - iMac G4
7th - iMac G3 (Indigo - sold the G4 because i needed money)
8th - eMac
9th - iBook G4

i have had the iBook G4 for almost 2 years i believe, that is the longest i have ever held on to a mac, i used to upgrade and upgrade but i have kind of lost the buy the lastest and greatest mac that comes out addiction.

[Voch]

I've used everything under the sun. All the Windows incarnations. Macs since the Duo 230. I've even piddled with OS/2 2.0 back in the day (a nice OS for my '386/20 with 8MB of RAM). Mac OS X is, of course, the best of the bunch.

I'm debating dumping my Windows XP Athlon I keep as a file server in my spare room for a refurb G5/1.6 or something. I still need Windows for one specific thing: MAME audits with ClrMamePro (I know of MAME auditors for Mac, but MAME releases are still more frequent for Windows). I could do that with VirtualPC, though...

Other than that everthing else I do on my PC (VLC, Eudora, Firefox, MAME, Stella, DVD burning, etc) I can also do with my Mac.

Voch

[MacGorilla]

I have a PC but its never run Windows. I have a dual 1 Ghz G4 and an SGI Indigo2.

[Powaqqatsi]

Personally I have never owned a PC. I did think about buying a PC back in the day when it was going really really downhill with Apple but I never did it. Macs I have owned myself: Performa 5300 (piece of ****), PowerMac G4 400 AGP, PowerBook Ti867. We do have PC's in our household but I never touch them (well I do clean them out once in a while, viruses and spyware).

[OldManMac]

Radio Shack TRS-80
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Atari 800
Zenith 8088
Packard Bell 286
Packard Bell 386
Zeos 486
NEC Pentium 100
Quadra 660AV
G3 300 B&W
G4 400 Graphite
iMac 800 17" FP

[DeathToWindows]

I've worked on IBM boxen and custom PCs... running Debian
Never owned one

Mac II - Quadra 650 - iMac DV SE - QS733 - DP 2.0 & PB1.33

[Rolling Bones]

I've got old Mac's stacked in my closet. Currently have a Quicksilver.

But sadly my next box will be a PC. Shopping for one now.

Everyone I know has PC's.

[OldManMac]

They won't like you if you don't have a PC, or do you just follow the crowd?

Sad is the appropriate adjective.

[Mr. Blur]

never owned a pc....having to support them and work on them all day is plenty enough for me - i certainly don't need that at home too.

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by nredman:
i have had the iBook G4 for almost 2 years i believe, that is the longest i have ever held on to a mac, i used to upgrade and upgrade but i have kind of lost the buy the lastest and greatest mac that comes out addiction.

no you haven't. the g4 upgrade was last fall.

[Zimphire]

I've never OWNED a PC. Meaning I have never bought one and it was mine.

However I do have one here in my house that Bekah uses.

[wdlove]

I have consistently owned a Mac since 1983. My wife purchased one PC, that she thought it was needed for school, only owned it for about three years.

[swichd]

I've had more PC's than macs
1st: Whitebox PC, AMD 486DX4 @100 MHz, 512 MB HD, 72 MB RAM
2nd: Packard Bell 486SX @25 MHz, 107 MB HD, 20 MB RAM
3rd: Cheap Whitebox 386SX @16 MHz?, NO HD, 4 MB RAM
4th: IBM 486DX @33 MHz, 120 MB DD 8 MB RAM
5th: ""
6th: Milwaukee PC 486SX @25 MHz, 420 MB HD, 240 MB HD, 160 MB HD
7th: PowerMac 6100/60, ?? HD, 32 MB RAM
8th: PowerMac 5500/225, 2 GiB HDD, 32 MB RAM
9th: Dell D300, Pentium II @300 MHz, 10 GiB HD, 128 MB RAM
10th: PowerBook 5300cs/100, 500 MB HD,
11th: Gateway Performance, Pentium III @800 MHz, 30 GiB HD, 384 MB RAM
12th: PowerMac 5500/225, 2 GiB HD, 32 MB RAM
13th: Homebuilt AMD Athlon XP 2600+ @2.2GHz, 20 GiB HD, 256 MB RAM
14th: iBook 500, 10 GiB HD, 256 MB RAM
15th: MP286, 80286 @8MHz, 20 MB HD, 1 MB RAM
So I've had 10 PCs and 5 Macs. I only have 6 of those systems today.

[Link]

1st: Everex step 286
2nd: (a few days later) Leading edge 8088 (only because it had a working HD)
3rd: IBM Thinkpad 350 (still works)
4th: Cyrix 266 (long gone first true new computer)
5th: Pentium 750mhz (blew it out in a power supply accident -- whoops!)
6th: Pentium 75mhz toshiba laptop (kinda inherited from my dad)
7th: Pentium 166mhz (took over from my bro since it kept falling apart)
8th: G4 quicksilver DP800 (still current main machine)
9th: Celery 900 (secondary machine, eventually rebuilt it into another machine for my bro)
10th: Powerbook 180c (someone gave it to me for nothing.. now sits in garage)
11th: Pentium 133 crapbox (threw it out, was given to me for parting out)

That'd be about it

Current count: 2 macs of my own (my bro has his own imac g4) -- 1 officially in use, 3 PCs still mine (the pentium 166 rebuilt for the 4th time and the 2 laptops)...

So yeah, that still bounces around a bit from time to time This all since 1996/97.

[Evan_11]

I haven't purchased a 'new' PC in over ten years. I have an old Pentium 266 sitting in my closet that I upgraded over the years. I would like to have a PC for Windows Media encoding. I hate to say it but WM is the standard for video streaming. The occassional game would be nice too.

[RonnieoftheRose]

My list of computers is insane. I'm not going to count the Amigas, Atari STs and older tape-based computers.

1. 486SX 40Mhz
2. 486 DX4 66Mhz
3. 486 DX4 100Mhz
4. AMD 586 100Mhz
5. Pentium 133Mhz
6. Cyrix 166Mhz
7. Pentium 200Mhz
8. Pentium Pro 200Mhz
9. Dual Pentium II 266 @ 309 Mhz
10. Pentium III 550 @ 600Mhz
11. Celeron 333 @ 450Mhz
12. Pentium III 733Mhz
13. Pentium III 800Mhz
15. HP laptop 133Mhz
15. Acer laptop Pentium 266Mhz
16. Dell Inspiron 7500 Pentium II 366Mhz
17. Sony Vaio 505 333Mhz
18. Sony Vaio 505 500Mhz
19. Sony Vaio 933Mhz
20. Athlon 2000XP
21. PowerBook Lombard
22. Power Mac G4 450DP
23. PowerBook G4 400Mhz
24. PowerBook G4 550Mhz
25. iMac G4 800Mhz
26. Powerbook G4 800Mhz
27. Power Mac G4 1GhzDP
28. PowerBook Alu 17" 1Ghz
29. PowerBook Alu 12" 867Mhz

You could say I'm a shopaholic. I've slowed down in the last year due to improvements on the software end. I would like a PowerBook that could handle any HiDef video I throw at it in the future.

[Albert Pujols]

whoops, I voted 'Sadly, just a PC owned'. I've actually owned 2 Macintosh Classics. In total I have only owned 5 computers. Though I hope to get a new Powerbook this January.

[Spliff]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
I've never OWNED a PC. Meaning I have never bought one and it was mine.

However I do have one here in my house that Bekah uses.

Who's Bekah?

[SSharon]

My dad has an old zenith 286 laptop that he used until last year to program the lights in my house (with X10). Aside from that though the family went from a powermac 7100/66 to a G3/266 with some upgrades like an extra 256mb of ram and an 80gb HD instead of the stock 4gb. I personally have a DP 1ghz MDD and a G4 ibook. The family is getting a G5 iMac in the next month or two. So unless you count the old zenith its been all mac in my family since the 7100 in 1994.

[MilkmanDan]

PC means Personal Computer. I own a Powerbook, it is my Personal Computer.

This is a beef of mine. The same way some people still ask me if something is "IBM compatible."

[starman]

Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
PC means Personal Computer. I own a Powerbook, it is my Personal Computer.

This is a beef of mine. The same way some people still ask me if something is "IBM compatible."

Even Apple says "Mac or PC" in their iTunes ads.

Mike

[starman]

My list:

Atari 800
Atari 800XL
Atari ST 520
Atari ST 1040
Mac Plus
Mac IIsi
Mac IIcx
PowerMac 6100
Powerbook 100
Powerbook 145B
Powerbook 540c
Self-built 486 PC
PowerMac 7600
PowerMac 8500
iBook
iBook SE
PowerMac G4/733
PowerMac G4/1.25 GHz
TiBooks (450, 500, and 1000 MHz)
Dome iMac
Several self-built PCs over the years - pull parts from each, use in other PCs.

Current:
PowerBook Al 1.2 GHz
2 self-built PCs (2.53 GHz P4, 1.4 GHz P4)
G4 Cube
G5 Dual 2.0
G5 Single 1.6

[Cadaver]

Two PCs out of many Apple products:

-Apple ][+
-Apple //e
-Apple //gs
-Quadra 605
-PowerComputing Power 100
-PowerComputing PowerCenter Pro 180 (eventually upgraded w/ an OC'd 300MHz G3 processor)
-PowerMac G3 350MHz (blue & white)
-PowerBook G3 400MHz (Pismo)
-Dell Dimension 4100 1GHz P-III
-PowerMac G4 Dual 800MHz (Quicksilver)
-iBook G3 600MHz
-Homebuilt AMD AthlonXP 2100+ (currently has a new motherboard and a 2600+, but "same" PC)
-PowerBook G4 1GHz (Titanium)
-PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0GHz
-PowerMac G4 Dual 500MHz (which shortly became a single 1.4GHz G4 machine)
-PowerBook G4 1.33GHz (12")

Two machines have also been "donated" to me:
-Bondi Blue iMac
-Graphite iMac DV SE

Machines I still have/use:
-PowerMac G5 (see sig below; my home machine)
-PowerMac G4 1.4GHz SP (use it at the office at work)
-PowerBook G4 1.33GHz 12' (posting via this machine)
-Homebrew AthlonXP 2600+ (presently running MandrakeLinux 10.1 Community)
-iBook G3 600MHz (wife's machine)

In use by the kids:
-Blue & White G3 - now w/ a 900MHz G3 (Daughter #1's machine)
-Graphite iMac (Son's machine)
-Bondi Blue iMac (Daughter #2's machine)

[Xeo]

Technically I have a PC. It's a hand-me-down from my dad. I used to dual-boot it with Windows and Linux, and I ran the Linux most of the time. I think I ran some server stuff on it. I ended up needing Windows more often than Linux so I installed everything I had on Linux onto the Windows side and then never went back to Linux.

But now, I don't use it. It's been sitting at a friends house so his dad doesn't have to use VPC. Even at a 400 P2, it's faster than VPC.

[Bookie]

I've never bought a PC - I have a couple I recuperated from the curbside - I've bought 5 Macs though.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Spliff:
Who's Bekah?

A gal I have been seeing for awhile now.

[swichd]

Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
PC means Personal Computer. I own a Powerbook, it is my Personal Computer.

This is a beef of mine. The same way some people still ask me if something is "IBM compatible."

Actually, x86 is the "correct" term for what is commoly called "PC"

[khufuu]

Originally posted by swichd:
Actually, x86 is the "correct" term for what is commoly called "PC"

I never actually owned a PC, it owned me.

[macaddict0001]

does it count as all macs if you got one pc for free and took some of the parts and put them in your mac?

[Sage]

Originally posted by nredman:
i have had the iBook G4 for almost 2 years i believe...

Except that they've been out for like one year.

Anyway, two Macs here, no PCs (or x86s, whatever). Beige desktop G3, iBook G3. Hopefully we can add a G5 iMac into the mix sometime soonish (soon means within one year in my family).

[moonmonkey]

BBC B 32k
Apple IIe 64k
Mac II 8000k
LC475 20000k
G3266 190000k
iMac G4 700 640000k

[dodo_nutter]

And i thought i'd owned a lot of Macs!! i'm only 19 so these were bought by my parents but as a result i never used Windows until i was 15 and i never quite understood why anyone would use windows...here's my (familys) list:

1. SE/30 (i loved this little computer)
2. LC II (only non-all-in-one mac)
3. Performa 7200 (i think)
4. Performa 7600 (again i think)
5. Original Bondi iMac Rev B 233MHz
6. Another Bondi iMac Rev B 233MHz
7. 15" Flat panel iMac 800MHz
8. 15" Powerbook G4 1.5GHz (My baby, only Mac i've bought myself. Maxed out except for RAM)

No. Macs: 8
No. PCs: 0