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When and why did you get your first Mac? (I'm a proud Mac user!)

  • Barefoot Michael

    The first Mac that I remember having was an LC back in my high school days, circa 1996. My older brother managed to pick one up for our family from somewhere and I used it for designing Hypercard stacks (remember those, anyone?), playing with digital pictures and eventually even connecting to the Internet. It had a WHOPPING 4 MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive that eventually got so full with *compressed* files that I later upgraded it to an 850MB drive. I remember thinking that I would NEVER come close to filling it.

    Since then we've used/I've owned a PowerMac 7300, Powerbook G3 (400Mhz "Pismo"), Powerbook G4 (1.25 Ghz aluminum - still have, bad hard drive), iMac G4 (800Mhz "sunflower") and Power Mac G5 (Dual proc 2.0Ghz - currently use).

    Our next buys will likely be a new hard drive for the Powerbook G4 and eventually a MacBook Pro.

    Thanks for the great question!

  • Barefoot Michael