Well, its kinda random, but i thought i should share with you all my Mac story, why i love them, and maybe it will inspire u to write ur story in the comments!
It all started in elementary school, back in the late 90’s, in the school library, we had old beige all-in-one macs, that ran an old system (i now know them as Performas) But i loved them, i thought they were the shiznit , fast internet, fast system, all around cool. then came the shining moment in my mac-life, one word: Clamshell! How i loved these little things, a built in handle, rugged plastic, i wanted one for so long (hell, i still want one) they were fast, wireless internet! who had heard of such a thing? it was crazy, and that was just in fifth grade. Then we moved up into middle school, we had iMacs, i loved those things so much, cool colors, cool CD drives, Mac OS 9!!! I just thought i was on top of the world. Then in Middle School, we got a new computer, the eMac, at this point, i was an emerging nerd, i spent almost all my time surfing the internet, and it was never for games, it was looking at technology, a bit of foreshadowing to my later life eh? The eMac introduced me to something that i had never seen before. Mac OS X!! Looking back i think it was 10.3 that we were running on those things. And then i found the love of my life. The Titanium Powerbook. All the teachers had one, and every chance i would get, i would look at them, and bask in the glory, i even calculated with my current allowance how long it would take to save up for one (7 years at $5 a week) I still really really really want one, the 1GHZ model is capable of running Leopard great, and thats all i need.
Into High School i went, my freshman year computer courses was divided up between a semester of Windows and a Semester of Mac. The first semester i was with Windows, to tell u the truth i loved it, at that point, i did not have a mac at home, but i did have a PC running XP, and so i knew all the little tricks and most people came to me for help (they still do) and i loved it! Then came my second semester, it was mac time, i worked on a iMac G5 for the entire span of the class, i remember the room, it was one wall of brand new G5 iMacs, a center table of iMac G4’s, and a wall of what i now know as Quicksilvers, i thought i was really lucky to be working on a G5. That room now has all Intel iMacs a few Mac Pros and a G5 Tower or two, all the iMac G5’s went to the Middle School. Anyway back to my story.
An annoucement was made that said that HHS would be starting a one to one laptop program, i was excited, kinda, remember how i said i never had a home mac? I remember myself saying when i heard we were getting iBook’s “I would have killed for a windows Laptop” I will never live down saying that, worst quote ever from me. Our school laptops are iBook G4, 1.33GHZ, 512MB Ram, 10.4.10. Not bad, but they load them with so many programs that they are really slow, it made me hate Macs, i thought all macs were slow and hard to work with. The oppurtunity came over Summer 07 for me to Purchase an ibook G4 from the Hays, KS School District for $200, i jumped on it, i got the ibook, and fell in love with it, it was snappy, fast, pretty, the perfect computer, it was running 10.3, not current by any means, but i loved it. I used the computer for a while and realized how amazing Macs really were when u could customize them to your every desire. well that ibook fell victim to a Logic Board Issue, and is now incapacitated, but before it died, i got a PowerMac G4 MDD for Xmas I LOVE THIS COMPUTER!!!!! I am typing on it right now, it is fast (except video encoding, but i don’t care). Mac OS X Leopard Rocks so much. Now that i am obsessed with macs, i have a Working: Performa 575, Wallstreet PowerBook G3, PowerMac G4, and Not Working: iBook G4, plus many working Peripherals, such as two printers, a few ipods, and random parts i pick up on craigslist and ebay and what not. Well i hope u enjoyed that, if u have a mac story u would like to share, feel free to post it in the comments, i would love to hear from u!! Later!
