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<blockquote data-quote="chronogoof89" data-source="post: 41615"><p>When I was 6 or 7 I guess, my mom was a computer teacher. Over the summer she brought home a (somewhat out of date) Apple IIe to mess around with. I guess like the next summer she brought home an early Macintosh desktop comp. So those were the first computers I used. Then the dark ages.... My family's first computer was a Compaq Presario something or other. 100mhz. It ran ok for like 1 year. Of course I was happy with it, I could play games! Then it had a bunch of problems. It got fixed, but after another year it was just too slow for the average software at the time. After a year or so of that we got a top-of-the-line Gateway tower Select 1000 I think it was, with Windows 98 (not SE). It was 1ghz, 256mb RAM, later upgraded to 512mb (didn't do crap). It was good for the rare game I played. By this time it was used mostly for the internet, and I guess all the spyware, adware, virii, etc - bogged it down. It was never right now matter how many ReFormats. It was **** to get any USB device to work. It was **** to get any hardware to work. It was slower and slower. Constantly locking up for no reason. It took forever to start because it had like a zillion programs set to run on startup, and I didn't know what they were, and it was impossible to get rid of all of them. At this point my mom brought home (from a different school) an (old) iMac. It was nice. It had a clean HD, as it was already re-formatted for the next year, so it was like brand new. Despite the processor speed being far slower than the Gateway it was way faster at everything. the Cable modem and all the stuff I had to mess with drivers with for the PC was all 1second plug and go. It was trendy, simple, easy to use, and pretty powerful! struggled with the Gateway for another year until the HDD crashed with 4-5GB of my music on it. So, I worked from an old PC laptop that was my dad's old one at 100mhz. It sucked. I;m not even addressing it it wa so bad. Time came for me to get a college computer. I saved up and bought a Powerbook G4. 15in 1.25Ghz, 512mb RAM, Superdrive. Its so flawless and awesome, so fast, simple, and sexy (espeically with my new wallpaper <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /> Tara Reid). Anway, I guess mostly I was sick and tired of PCs, but if it wasn't for a combination of the other things I would have just tried to deal with it....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chronogoof89, post: 41615"] When I was 6 or 7 I guess, my mom was a computer teacher. Over the summer she brought home a (somewhat out of date) Apple IIe to mess around with. I guess like the next summer she brought home an early Macintosh desktop comp. So those were the first computers I used. Then the dark ages.... My family's first computer was a Compaq Presario something or other. 100mhz. It ran ok for like 1 year. Of course I was happy with it, I could play games! Then it had a bunch of problems. It got fixed, but after another year it was just too slow for the average software at the time. After a year or so of that we got a top-of-the-line Gateway tower Select 1000 I think it was, with Windows 98 (not SE). It was 1ghz, 256mb RAM, later upgraded to 512mb (didn't do crap). It was good for the rare game I played. By this time it was used mostly for the internet, and I guess all the spyware, adware, virii, etc - bogged it down. It was never right now matter how many ReFormats. It was **** to get any USB device to work. It was **** to get any hardware to work. It was slower and slower. Constantly locking up for no reason. It took forever to start because it had like a zillion programs set to run on startup, and I didn't know what they were, and it was impossible to get rid of all of them. At this point my mom brought home (from a different school) an (old) iMac. It was nice. It had a clean HD, as it was already re-formatted for the next year, so it was like brand new. Despite the processor speed being far slower than the Gateway it was way faster at everything. the Cable modem and all the stuff I had to mess with drivers with for the PC was all 1second plug and go. It was trendy, simple, easy to use, and pretty powerful! struggled with the Gateway for another year until the HDD crashed with 4-5GB of my music on it. So, I worked from an old PC laptop that was my dad's old one at 100mhz. It sucked. I;m not even addressing it it wa so bad. Time came for me to get a college computer. I saved up and bought a Powerbook G4. 15in 1.25Ghz, 512mb RAM, Superdrive. Its so flawless and awesome, so fast, simple, and sexy (espeically with my new wallpaper :eek: Tara Reid). Anway, I guess mostly I was sick and tired of PCs, but if it wasn't for a combination of the other things I would have just tried to deal with it.... [/QUOTE]
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