Mac Specs: 2000 Power Mac G4 "Sawtooth" w/ Mac OS X 10.4; 500mHz
My first computer was a custom built computer running Windows 95. Other than the fact that the only game I played on it was called "Catz", I don't remember much about it. I think one day it started giving "Illegal Operation" errors and my Dad built me a new one that lasted for a few years. It ran Windows 98, then later, 2000. It was sooner replaced with a more modern computer running XP, and then another XP machine (with Windows Media Center) after that. The WMC machine now sits broken on my desktop, with a Power Mac G4 sitting on top of it. Boo-yah!
I've also had a string of laptops, starting with a Compaq Presario, which ran Windows 98, then shortly after it died, Dad got an HP Pavilion with Windows XP, and that one has been wiped so many times. It's also had its entire board replaced since sautering the power port to the board only worked about 25% of the time. HP sent a new one in for around $600, and we upgraded the RAM on it to 4 gigs. Still good for about 6 years old, though it's a heavyweight. Shortly after, he obtained a Toshiba Satellite display model, with Vista and only 1 gig of RAM (though it came with an AMD Athlon X2 running about 1.8gHz). He left town and forgot it, so he bought a Dell Studio 15 with Vista. No problems with it as of yet, but in between the time he left town w/o the Toshiba and when he first got the Toshiba, he bought me another Compaq, this one was a Presario with the bare minimums for Windows Vista. I hated it. It overheated on more than one occasion and the sound quality was crap. As was the trackpad (or lack there of) and the battery life. When came back home with a Dell, I got the Toshiba, my grandmother got the Compaq. She doesn't use it. Ever. Ha! (I asked for a MacBook as soon as he got the Toshiba, and I ended up getting a cruddy Compaq. YUCK). About 6 months after I got the Tosh, Mom purchased a blue Acer Aspire One netbook. I wanted one, so she purchased a white one. She liked the white one better. She's crashed it twice, and we've had to carefully wipe it and reinstall Windows XP. Then my Dad wanted one, so he got a Lenovo IdeaPad that doesn't keep time.
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Vista? Zune? Microsoft Store? Who the heck thought up those? FAIL!
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” -Steve Jobs
Mac Specs: 2000 Power Mac G4 "Sawtooth" w/ Mac OS X 10.4; 500mHz
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Originally Posted by milessthomas
Packard Bell Legend
Surprisingly didn't have all the issues that most people had with the American version of these computers.
Remember playing Freddy the Fish on this after school all the time.
My grandpa has this same computer. He doesn't use it very often though.
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Vista? Zune? Microsoft Store? Who the heck thought up those? FAIL!
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” -Steve Jobs
Owned or used? The first computers I used were Apple II and IIc then original Macintosh - they were my step dad's...first one that was MY own was in 1989-90ish and it was some PC thing....ugh...
First REAL computer I bought with my own money was the G4 iMac in 2001.
Mac Specs: Macbook 1.83ghz 2gig Ram, 320GB 7200rpm HDD, 8GB 3G iPhone, 4GB Mini, 2GB Nano, 30GB Video
My first was a Packard Bell 286 CPU with PREFACE (non-os) and had a 20 meg hard drive. Second was a 55 mhz Compaq, then the jump to a 66mhz COMPUDYNE (now known as ACER). Followed by a COMPUSA branded 700mhz P3 PC (which i still have today) and then my First Laptop a 1.2ghz Toshiba, then came the MacMini 1.42ghz G4 and my Current 1.83GHZ Macbook1.
My first computer was Franklin clone of the Apple II. I had a choice of a green or amber screen, I took the green. No harddrive, but it did have two 5.25 floppy drives. I also had an Epson dot matrix printer. I felt like I was in High Cotton.
In my case, after the Commodore 64 I also got a Commodore 128 and Atari 130XE. Went to an Atari ST and used the Atari 130XE as my BBS computer. Then moved over to an Amiga 500 and used the Atari ST for the BBS computer. There was also an Amiga 2000 and 3000. I still have the 500 and 3000. Never got a 4000 but saw one at my Amiga Computer Club I hung out at every Wednesday evening.
Mac Specs: 13 inch alMacBook 2GHz 2GB, 1.25GHz G4 eMac
Alright, so if we're going with "owned" in a loose sense, like as in, what your family had and you grew up using...
1986's Macintosh Plus
Minimum OS: System 3.0/Finder 5.1
Maximum OS: 7.5.5
Introduced: January 1986
Terminated: October 1990
Processor
CPU: Motorola MC68000
CPU Speed: 8 MHz
FPU: none
Bus Speed: 8 MHz
Data Path Width: 16 bit
Address Width: 16 bit
ROM: 128 kB
RAM Type: 30 pin SIMM
Minimum RAM Speed: 150 ns
Onboard RAM: 0 MB
RAM slots: 4
Maximum RAM: 4 MB
Level 1 Cache: 0.5 kB
Video
Monitor: 9" built-in
Max Resolution: 1 bit 512x342
Storage
Floppy Drive: 3.5" 800 kB
$2600 price tag.
Blazing fast!
Many a day spent playing Arkanoid on that old machine, then my dad got a Mac Classic... same fast 8MHz processor and bus, but this time it had a 40MB hard drive! How could anyone fill up 40MB?! And 1MB of on board RAM!
My mind is the weapon. Everything else is merely an accessory.
