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Bought an iPod, then a Mac?

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Definitely me. My interest in Apple started with my iPod Mini. :)
 
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Grew up on Macs, I didnt get my first iPod until the 3rd gens after I got the chance to play with my uncle's iPod.
 
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iPod for all of us (4 of 'em), then a Mini, then a MBP & soon to be iMac for the g/f...I kind of owe her ;)

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Macs first, Plus, SE and so on and on, then iPod Mini, then 3g.
 
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Didn't get my first iPod til 5G. Now have that iPod, Black Macbook, and iPhone.
 
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I got my first Mac in 1996 - it was a Mac clone (PowerComputing PowerCenter 150 desktop). Then when it was time to upgrade (after about 6 years of use, we gave the PowerCenter away) we bought a grape iMac from a friend which didn't last 6 months even (the analog board died on us) so we bought a spankin' new 17" 800MHz G4 iMac. Then when that one became a bit of a drag to use (it was getting slow and no fun to use), we bought a 20" iMac G5.

Somewhere during 2004, I won my first iPod (3G - 15GB) in a forum raffle after thinking I'd never ever buy one or need one, it was a stoopid concept. Hah! I fell in love with it! Now I have a 60GB Video iPod. :D
 
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I used Macs at work before I was given an iPod, but I had looked at them as graphics-and-publishing-only computers.

(I so wanted to tick "I have neither, but compulsively respond to online polls")
 
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i have still yet to get an ipod... i might be getting a shuffle soon though. :)
 
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Actually I'm kinda the opposite. I got my ipod because it seamlessly integrated with OS X. So having a mac was the only reason I chose ipod over something else. But now I really like my ipod for being an ipod and not just an apple product.
 
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I bought an iPod before my MacBook. I got my 30 GB Video in late '05, and my Mac in January '07. I'd guess that if I hadn't bought my iPod, I'd probably be using a Toshiba laptop right now. Thank God for the iPod.
 
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I bought an iPod video 5G 30GB white in December 2005. March 2006 I bought an iMac.
 
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I had a Mac way back when, purchased in 1993. Bought a 4th gen iPod. Then bought an MBP a couple months ago.
 
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I went Mac in 2001, pre-iPod. I didn't see what the big deal was when SJ announced it - an MP3 player, what's the big deal, right? I thought I'd have no use for one. But after a while, my curiosity got the better of me and I got a 3G 10GB iPod . . . and fell in love. It died not long ago, so now I have my 3G 8GB Nano w/video. I love it even more. I can't believe there was a time when I thought I didn't want/need one. ^_^
 
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I bought an iPod, my old PC started acting up, and less than a week later I bought my iMac.
 

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