How did you get into Mac?

[fridayxiii]

My first Apple product was an iPod Nano I got for Christmas '08. Up to that point I thought iPod's were somewhat overhyped, but when experiencing the ease-of-use, how well-made the HW is, and how smart the UI is, I knew the rave reviews were all true.

July 1 '09, after a few months of ogling a co-worker's iPhone 3G, I opted out of my Sprint contract early just to get an iPhone 3GS. Same feeling as w/the iPod Nano, x10.

I work in IT, and we have an iMac in our PC lab. After falling for the Nano & 3GS, and playing w/the iMac, I knew what my next computer would be. Then, mid-January this year, my XP desktop died. I knew I wanted a Mac, and that a laptop made the most sense for me, and voila, my MacBook came home!

Save for working on a WinXP laptop at work, or helping friends & family w/their PC's, I know I'm a Mac user for life.

 

[Printerman]

Being heavily into porn a macs the only safe way to go ;D

Sorry to spoil your thought, but Macs can get trojans, which are spread by porn sites and illegal downloads

 

[Mac SK]

Back in the old days...if you wanted to do real graphics a Mac was the only way. The first Intel logo commercials where made on a Mac. We fought the war against big PC. They call us Macheads.

 

[KBJ]

Along time ago my family had a 386-DX then a 486 and somewhere in there a Macintosh SE. I always thought the SE was wayyyy cooler. Then somewhere around 1996-97 my friend talked me into building a PC. I thought it was pretty cool tinkering with it (constantly) and always upgrading it. Of course back then most people wouldn't consider cracking open the case on a computer.

I learned AutoCAD to advance in my profession so a PC was really my only option. I wanted another Apple, but didn't get one until the Blue/White G3 came out. From that point on I had a PC to do AutoCAD and other "Work" stuff and a Mac for everything else. During that time I also had a couple PC notebooks, that cost a fortune back then! My Gateway and Dell were both over $3000 and they just sucked! The Gateway was always a piece of Junk. At least Dell would fix the constant problems I had (hardware failure, not software). It seemed like I was constantly upgrading the PC's to keep them technologically relevant.

Once the Intel Mac's came out I bought one immediately and have been sooooo much happier. I run Parallels for Windows for AutoCAD and that's it! It's was so nice to only support one computer platform. I do admit the Motorola chips in Pre Intel Mac's were really pretty sweet for their time.

The other nice things I've always loved about my Mac's is their resale value, and not needing the constant upgrades to keep them relevant. I just realized that my MacPro is like 3 years old, and aside from some more RAM and Bigger drives, I've just never felt the urge to Upgrade. It does everything I need still and it still smokes!!!

My retired and passed on Mac's:
G3, G4 (regular and Mirror Door), G5, pismo G3, Titanium G4 notebook, 1st gen MBP.

Current: MacPro (1st Gen), Macbook Pro (pre-unibody), MacMini (media center), iPhone 3gs, ........ and soon to come an iPad 3g (if they'd just release the **** thing!)

I help to support my Girls parent's PC's..... and every time I have to help them, I'm more grateful for being part of the Apple Clan!!!

 

[in00b]

well , its because my new pc ( mid 2009) could support osx , so i just gave myself the challenge and then i just.......... fell in love ( hope its ok to talk about it)

 

[blackmac11]

well , its because my new pc ( mid 2009) could support osx , so i just gave myself the challenge and then i just.......... fell in love ( hope its ok to talk about it)

Technically, no.

 

[6string]

well , its because my new pc ( mid 2009) could support osx , so i just gave myself the challenge and then i just.......... fell in love ( hope its ok to talk about it)

That's a +1 to the No!
It is called Hackintosh, and you should (and probably do) know better, and if not, you will find it in the forum guidelines.
If I were you, I would delete your post (edit) and put something along the lines of I tried it, and fell in love with it, before the moderators do delete your post, or worse perhaps.
Adding to that, get yourself a Mac, or stop using OS X.

 

[Mac23]

My first computer was a Compaq desktop that obviously ran windows.. Throughout school (elementary through high school) was all windows as well.. I started college in 2005 and bought a brand new Toshiba Satellite that lasted about 1 year..

After loving my iPod and hearing so many great things about Apple's line of products, I decided to save up and bite the bullet and bought a brand new 13.3" Whitebook with a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 1 GB RAM in 2007

That is still my main machine today. I hope to upgrade next year, but really, I don't have much ambition to as long as this beauty is working fine.

I've upgraded the HDD and the RAM, it runs better than most of my friends brand new laptops, I still get great battery life and overall, this computer has paid for itself.

I'll probably end up upgrading to Snow Leopard from Leopard within the next month as well.. I honestly couldn't have asked for a more reliable machine.

I'll be Mac for life, and with the latest announcements from Valve/STEAM, I have absolutely no reason to use a Windows machine. All the programs I use are Mac Friendly and I've even talked a few of my friends into getting Macs because they've been pretty impressed with the quality of the machine and it's OS.

 

[martyp]

Being heavily into porn a macs the only safe way to go ;D

LMFAO. +Rep!! That made my day.


For me it was partly due to my work. At school I loved the PM G5 for is design and also always wanted to run a UNIX® OS. Although I stuck with Windows and its numerous problems.

When I started work and delt with those problems on a daily basis and came home to more I just go tired of it all and bought myself a G5 to try out OS X. Needless to say the rest is history - I'm living the dream.

 

[vansmith]

Unix + everyday usability = computer for me. It does what I wanted in my old computer where I dual booted Windows and Linux.

 

[87vert]

I had always used windows pc's until about 5-6 years ago when I started dabbling in some Linux OS's but as of last year my employer asked me if I would be willing to support macs so I said yes and now I pretty much use mac's exclusively.

 

[macgaming]

My family actualy used to use Dell, but we kept getting viruses, they made a lot of noise, and they loaded really slowly, so one christmas my grandpa sent us our yearly money gift to use as we pleased, so we got a mac. I have to say I really like it, but gaming can be a little obnoxious.

 

[iBeldar]

My family always were, and still are PC users. I was at school, in maybe 4th grade when the G3 iMacs first came out. My teacher got one for the classroom. It looked so cool! I finally got a chance to play with it, and I just got a good vibe from the "bong" noise that this was an awesome computer. Ever since, I had always wanted a Mac. Finally when I was old enough to get a job, I saved up a little bit and bought my first mac, a Dual G4 DigiAudio Powermac.

I was amazed that a Dual 533mhz machine with 768MB RAM did my normal computing just as fast as my modern PC(at the time) with 2GHZ Single Core and 1GB RAM. I was hooked ever since.

Side note: Technically my first Apple was an iBook G4. The operating system wouldn't load; I traded my spare PC straight across for it. HD was bad, luckily I had a spare laptop drive. Problem was, I had no money or job at that time so I had to load Linux on it. Never got to put OSX on it, so I won't count that as my first Mac.

 

[SweetCosmicPope]

A history lesson:
I learned about computers, running purely through DOS, on an IBM XT 286. Used that until about 1991, when my gramps brought home some NEC with Windows 3.0 that he needed to use for his consulting business.
Then we upgraded to a lightning fast Quantex, running the then-new Windows 95 and a 233 mhz processor with all the bells and whistles (gramps spent about 5 grand on that setup). Went through several versions of windows and hardware upgrades on this computer.
Then went to my compaq laptop, which lasted about 3 years before it kicked the bucket, then my e-machines which is still running today in a state of confusion...

Over all of that, though, one thing I could never get over was how frustrating windows was. Another option never occurred to me, though, until I went to Lamar University and one of my new friends had an eMac for video editing (film major). I loved how OSX ran on it. Crisp and clean, and yes, very sexy.

Since then I'd been pining for one, for a very long time. Going so far as to use them exclusively when working in the computer labs at school. Finally made the jump to mac in February, and I haven't looked back. Haven't touched my other PC tower since (HP HTPC). I have used my wife's laptop, which is less than a year old, and I don't know how I survived this long. You can go make a pot of coffee in the time it takes to come out of sleep mode.

 

[clonehappy]

I've always known about them, but my sweety got me hooked once we met on match.com hehe. The rest is history as they say. iphone, imac, mac book, ipod, hoping for ipad and eventually maybe the new iphone with the new OS (wow that looked awesome) cause my iphone as wonderful as it is it a first gen and I know it'll eventually give up the ghost <3 me some macs

 

[iBeldar]

You can go make a pot of coffee in the time it takes to come out of sleep mode.

Sounds like my friend's Asus G71. Top of the line gaming laptop, slow as molasses thanks to Vista. Thats why I like my Macbook, the desktop is already up before I can get the screen open all the way.

 

[BogBeast]

I used to run a typesetting/art studio when it was all done the old way - galleys of photo typesetting and lick and stick using cow gum for artwork (yes I am old!). Bought a Mac so I could start out-putting repro quality bromide and film from customers floppy disks that they were producing in early Page Make-up and drawing programs and it went from there. Very quickly the traditional methods were replaced by the new technology so I dumped the old Linotronics and kept buying Macs.

 

[Honkong]

there are almost no viruses on mac...

 

[6string]

there are almost no viruses on mac...

Make that "no viruses"

 

[mrplow]

Been using PC's since the 286 days. Been building, using and supporting them since 1987 and still do to this day.

2007 decided i wanted a < 15" screened laptop for portability. Looked all over for something half decent but, at the time, the only half-decent specced 12/13" PC laptops were £1100+ So, for once, a Mac was the cheaper option.

Got myself a 2.16ghz C2D white Macbook. Never had much interest in Macs prior to this. Nothing against them just not really looked at them much.

Absolutely loved OSX (Tiger at the time), upgraded to Leopard. Never looked back. Through myself into the Mac world and have learned loads courtesy of this forum in the main. Hopefully I've given a fair bit back too.

My daughter now has the White Macbook, I replaced it with a Alu Unibody Macbook and have, in the last few weeks taken delivery of an i7 iMac which is stunning.

Still have a myriad of PCs in the house. Still build them and support them and Macs now.