Have you Ever Owned any Apple Products?

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After years of fixing, and using PCs, I have found myself starting to lean more to the mac side of things. my favorite model of computer is the original iMac from the first time i remember seeing the ads for it, I was hooked. it was easy to see why that little system was the one that turned apple’s fortunes around. I most recently obtained a “Dead” imac DV 400mhz system, that I was able to get running again after hitting the cuda switch. I have a spare system set aside though in case the analog board craps out, (A gutted 350mhz system) otherwise it’s a great little machine.

I’ve been with PCs for over 17 years (wow! I sound old, lol), and last year I bought my first Mac. I’m barely using my PC now.

The best computer I’ve ever had is my current MacBook. The experience I have with it simply amazing.

Everything is easy, I worry a lot less about what I’m doing because I know there’s a lot chances to damage the system than on Windows. The comparison list could go on and on…

I even started a blog last week where I try to share that experience. If you wanna take a look: iswitchd.com

FANBOY !

Yes I own alot of apple products. Also I have heard of this software before but never tried it. I was trying find out some info on an old iMac g3 because i was going to try to fix it but everywhere I looked there where different specs. This program seems like it would have been a ton of help at the point but to late now. Thanks for telling us about this program.

Yeah, I’m typing this on an iMac (the first 20″ Core2Duo model). But the computer I have the fondest memory of was a no-name-brand AMD386/40 from a Mom ‘n Pop computer assembler. Sniff … good times.

You said, “…..Apple fanatics”, how about Window fanatics, can they use it? Can Apple users who aren’t “fanatics”, can they also use it?

Apple all the way. Almost four years ago I had a Sony Viao laptop and a Dell Tower, they died 6 weeks apart. That was it for me. Marched down to the apple store and I have never looked back. The price issue isn’t an issue, for a comparable machine the price is the same. Yes there is no super low end cheap Macs but I never bought the bargain barrel windows machines anyway.

The only apple product i own is an apple keyboard but ….does that really count? lol……Im about to buy an ipod so…..i will soon….:)

I can recall every pc I’ve ever owned, most of the specs…I have owned a mac in the past, two actually. One was a Powerbook G3 250…It didn’t have an optical drive or networking so it was useless to me. And the other was a Macintosh SE, which I loved to death, I used it all the time just playing with it’s text-to-speech and graphics editor. Inspite having Windows PC’s at the time that were dozens of times faster with color screens, I loved the SE.

I’ve been using Windows PC’s ever since, but I have a job this summer so I’ll be buying a Macbook at the end :D

I don’t support any of the name brand PC manufacturers, I build my own, and I’m not restricted to the list of “options” from the big brands this way.

The only time I would go with a brand name is when I’m looking at or recommending laptops, Toshiba and IBM.

Don’t know if the statistics look at the amount of PC hardware bought, would be interesting to know though.

only apple product I owned was an mp3 player and i ran that thing over on accident was a sad day for the world of me but I hear the life on those things are quite good just doesn’t count when a few tons decide to take a seat on the product.

Wow Mactracker is a very cool tool. I tried the Windows version too – and even that works nicely. Thanks for the reccommendation :)

Ben

Only apple product I’ve owned is an iPod video 30 gigs, my biggest wish is to have a mac mini and a macbook.

I agree 100% on that faster computer line lol, and I will slap someone that says that he wants a slowe computer xD.

I just bought the first generation iPhone at the end of April 2008, lucky me. Honestly though , I have a Great ISP with 8Mb download speeds and don’t really care for 3G support on my mobile device. It’s much faster at home All I do is check email and edge is fine for that. If I were to invest in a 3G device, it would be a card for the laptop mounted in my truck. More often than not, when I’m away from home, im in it.

man… every time you write or say something on your videos you show quite a bit of ignorance (and arrogancein your interviews). I don’t get what makes you so special to have people caring about what you spit.

Anyway, the operating systems don’t have chime sounds; they’re on the ROM of the hardware. Which is why each series may have a different sound.

Such kind of “database” application have existed forever (I mean, even before Mac OS 8.5).

And please, please, please… STOP calling everyone who has a mac a damn fanboy. Sure there are brainless people who buy a mac, or anything, just because it’s cool and they think that having one makes them less sad. But most people are smarter than that.

I’ve had mac for 14 years now. And for the first years not only it was not “cool” but people would think you were weird for using anything different than Windows (or they’d think u were a graphic designer, LOL).

And, contrary to windows users who usually know nothing else (perhaps Linux nowadays), mac users tend to know about windows, mac, linux, and unix, and others. Just for necessity or because they have tried other options before and have *chosen* to use macs.

Hmmm. I don’t own any Apple equipment. Then again, most of my personal machines I have built from scratch, the current Core 2 Quad, the previous 2.8GHZ P4, the previous 400MHZ P3, the previous ‘486 was a engineering sample from Tandy, the previous ‘386. Now the four laptops that I have owned were not built from scratch, but they split two manufacturers.

The now defunct GRiDs (an 8086 and a ‘386) and Dells (Inspiron 600MHZ and a 1.7ghz Pentium M).

I’ve never personally owned anything from Apple. We used Apple II and Apple IIe machines when I was going to school, and I learned Apple Basic on them. They were well built robust computers … remember the Mono-Green screens and floppy discs? I was fascinated with them, and spent as much times learning on them as I could. They were a great learning tool.

Presently, I have my machines custom built for the desktop, and have been well served by them. I do not plan on purchasing an Apple Machine or or iPhone.

I’ve never personally owned anyhing from Apple. We used Apple II and Apple IIe machines when I was going to school, and I learned Apple Basic on them. They were well built robust computers … remember the Mono-Green screens and floppy discs? I was fascinated with them, and spent as much times learning on them as I could. They were a great learning tool.

Presently, I have my machines custom built for the desptop, and have been well served by them. I do not plan on purchasing an Apple Machine or or iPhone.

After championing Windows for 10 year I switched in ‘99 – ie pre-OSX. And boy am I glad I did. Fixing Windows machines ever since is such a painful experience.

As far as I’m concerned, my waking day is with Apple tools, Macs, iPods and iPhones.

Macs, and OSX especially, are just a joy to use.

wow. this will be very very useful! I had my iPod stolen a few years ago and it was gone never to be seen again. and i was devastated and i had to buy a brand new one…i just signed up for this and put it on my iPod, Thumb Drive, and my cell. this is amazing technology and will benefit many! Thanks for sharing this. i signed up my parents and sis to and put on all there stuff!!

I have a iPod, its been amazing. Ever since i’ve got it I used iTunes, of course. And this program has been one of the easiest programs I have ever used. This programwas so easy my dad who is not a real computer user had got on and synced his own songs to his iPod. I am a PC user and and I hope that apple keeps on making itunes more efficient for everyone to use.

I remember owning one of those old macintosh’s. We were all amazed because it had a floppy disk drive, an a mouse, and a keyboard, and even a printer port!.It was great!

I think the ipod is a huge influence in why apple is getting a large market share people Buy a ipod and love the interface and the ease of use and figure “Well if the ipod is this easy the MAC OS has to be good”

yup owned the first ipod still using it at times

Man, I wish I had this when I was doing a school research project! I love how it has the startup chimes. I myself hava a macbook, and a B&W G3.

i have never owned 1 …..i didnt even no wat apple was till the ipod vid came out

Well, I’m going against the grain. I have to be 100% honest and tell you that I’ve used PC’s as long as there are PC’s. My first PC that I owned and sold as a dealer was called Polo Systems (I still have the original poster). This was Pre-Microsoft! Ran two operating systems called PC-DOS by IBM and of course CPM. It had a wooping 64K of memory and used Two 5 1/4″ Floppys. One to run the O/S and the other to run the Applications as well as storage.
Having said that…
I’m considered a computer “expert” whatever that means.
I also am on record as probably the ONLY person to have been given a Mac Book for his use at work and after working with it for over 4 months I RETURNED IT for an HP Lap Top.
The Reason, I knew how to FIX the HP when things went wrong. The Mac…was a problem due to it’s many “special” automated features that assumed you were too stupid to use a computer to begin with. They got in the way. I was pretty sick and tired of having to deal with the differences between the Mac version of Word and the PC Version that 90% of the businesses we dealt with were using. That’s just the tip of the Iceberg. I know the Mac folks like to say that the Mac’s are trouble free but that is far from true!
If I get in to the Software problems I’d be writing forever.
One thing I will mention is that I’ve owned several PC lap tops but I have never had the problem exhibited by the Mac Book Battery which was…It Damn Near Exploded!
I was flying from Green Bay Wisconsin to E-3 in San Jose with the Mac Book on my lap. It started getting hotter and hotter until I couldn’t keep it on my lab and had to pull down the seat tray. Then the unit started acting funkey and wouldn’t I noticed that it wasn’t laying flat on the tray surface any more.
The battery started to SWELL! It pushed out the bottom of the battery compartment cover and I shut the unit down right away.
I was afraid that I’d be talking to the sky marshalls about my potential exploding battery but after I shut it down it cooled off.
Needless to say the following week I gave my Mac Book to our Video Editor and we were forced to BUY a new battery!
Thank you Apple!
Nice Warrenty!
James M Murphy
Green Bay, Wisconsin.