When Did You Take A Bite Of The Apple?
55% of you visit RagamuffinSoul.com on a Mac.
42% of you visit on a not a Mac.
I remember when I first took a bite of the apple.
It was 2002 and I bought a 12″ Powerbook. I took it to Częstochowa, Poland.
I walked around the city streets with my 12″ of LCD looking for a wifi signal to steal.
I was forever changed.
So when was it for you?
When did you bite the apple?
And if you haven’t…
Why?
Los
RAIN IT DOWN
I chomped into the apple 3 years ago and I haven't looked back yet!!!
2005 my family got a iMac g5
june 2007 i got my very own MacBook Pro.
haven't looked back since. love my apple
My first Apple was an Apple IIc – I think it was 1979 when I bought that little gem. Today I use a basic Macbook – it’s everything I need for everything I do. Jim
My family has used Apple computers since the Apple II! My first apple personally was a 15 inch MacBook for college, and I’ve wanted to buy every new model since . . . But have not upgraded that often
I’m totally a Mac.
When I first started dating my now husband, I walked into his living room to see a GREEN computer! I was a bit skeptical, however once I sat down, and took hold of the round one button mouse, I was hooked
2005 got a macbook and I will never ever go back.
Now I have my whole family using macs.
iBook G4 in 2005. I had used Macs before but never made the jump to owning one until then.
Although technically, my first computer was an Apple. When I was 4 my mother bought a Apple IIc. Funny thing was, she bought it in 1986, so she could’ve bought a Mac.
When I was a Junior in High School, I'm 23 now. My youth minister got me hooked. My first was an ibook G3.
This past Christmas… PC laptop that I got in 2006 had always taken about 20 minutes to finally run properly… then, a light shined down…
I got hooked on using one two years ago through the library (my work place) at my university. Unfortunately, I'm just a poor starving grad student, so I'll be using my sad little pc until a) I move to South Korea next year to start teaching (and making money!) or b) someone feels really generous and donates one to me!
i was force fed the apple – a macbook pro about a year and a half ago. now i can't believe i ever resisted it. i'd never go back.
I’m the lucky one. I grew up on Macs. The high school I went to is still all mac in their labs. My mom worked at the school and in the summers they let her bring home her old school desktop 10″ monitor with 5.5″ floppy drive built into it… had that locking click switch to access the drive. Glorious.
I tried to make the switch to PC in college and hated every minute of it.
Two weeks ago. The church bought me a MacBook. It's temporary…I'm getting a MacBook Pro in a couple of months. So far, so good…
I have already had a macbook and now I am on the Macbook Pro train and not looking back!!!!! We als have an iMac at home. There is nothing finer
This past April. I got a White 13 inch Standard MB and an 8 GB iPhone 3G in the same month. Never looked back for fear of turning into a pillar of salt.
I was a mac lab assistant in high school but I didn't really bite the apple til 1999 when Mac OS X first got announced. I bought an iNdigo clamshell iBook (still have it) as soon as I could get my hands on it. I've been living in the orchard ever since and will continue to do so until they pry the one button mouse from my cold dead fingers!
august 06 when i realized final cut pro was phenomenal. 17'' macbook pro
Just think of how many children in third-world countries could have been fed with the amount that you overpaid for a Mac!
OK. I thought about it. Thanks.
3 years ago. I got a macbook pro. Now that I’m Mac I will never go back.
Think of how many children in third-world countries could have been fed with how much you overpaid for a Mac.
Nothing is overpaid in a Mac. I would NEVER buy windows no matter how "cheap" it is, including free.
Oh come now. I own 3 Macs and even I know that's not true. Dollar-for-dollar and app-for-app, Apple computers have a higher TCO.
A budget-conscious ministry has no business being a 100% mac-only shop. Should the media team have macs? Sure. Should the secretaries? Absolutely not.
peace | dewde
Amen!
6 years ago started using a 15" Powerbook G4 for church as a volunteer. Moved onto a 15" Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo 2 1/2 years ago. Owned iMac in 07 and wife has a 13in Alum Macbook. And have the pleasure of using 2 Mac Pro towers at work
i bought a macbook in 2008 and now i think i’m so much better than all the PC users in the world. when i’m kinda not, well now that i think about it………
I switched almost 7 months ago… And I haven't regretted it since! I don't know what I was thinking before
My husband got me my first MAC (MacBook Pro) for my birthday this year. Why can’t everything be Mac?
Between us we have 2 iPhones, 1 iMac, and 2 MacBook Pros.
I got my first Mac in the fall of 1997. My college was a Mac campus when I first went there so I bought a Power Macintosh 8600 I think (it’s been too long…). Fast forward to now and my wife and I have two Macbook Pros and an iMac and can’t imagine having anything but a Mac.
summer of 2001…it was given to me for a work computer…12 inch laptop…changed my life…never gone back…and why would I?
rhett
Been using Apple since 1991. I never used a PC (and God willing never will). Went from a Commodore 64 to an Apple.
when the 30gb iPod video came out, totally felt like the people in the ads rocking out to theirs.
in 2004….. I too had a 12" PowerBook that has been handed down to my teenage half sister, and it's still going strong. From teaching high school for a living, to now preaching for a living, my Mac has been by my side. (new 13" macbook pro arriving any day…. going back to my small screen roots:)
June 2008, got my iMac and never looked back. Got a 13′ MacBook as well.
Apple IIc and Apple IIGs were the first. My family has been using Apple for most of the past 25 years.
12 inch powerbook g4 got it used from a friend for $900 because I needed a laptop and really wanted to work with my own personal copy of GarageBand. (I'd been borrowing a dorm-mates for far too long) I fell in love immediately.
I'm currently running a black Macbook and working towards a possible upgrade to the new Macbook Pro.
I drool a lot. Sometimes it's just because and not related to how much I love my Apple at all. : )
1999 I got an iBook G3 Blueberry. My kids were still using it in 2007, when I sold it on eBay. The bidding went to over $400. It’s been 10 years and I have never lost any data – not even in The Orange Juice Incident of 2004.
bought a used sawtooth g4 for school in 2002. Bought an ibook the same year. It died last year. I spent an agonizing year on a windows laptop. I've had this macbook since Feb. I'll never ever go back! Ever. Unless I have no choice… I also have had multple ipods, now a touch… and when the iphone for verizon makes its appearance… yep.
Beginning of July 2009. I bought a MacBook Pro 15in for myself and found $$$ in my budget for a 24" iMac and 2 mac mini's for work. I've built 2 PC's in my life… I thought I'd be a PC forever… but dang if I don't love my moonfruit!
As Los said… this is a great group hug everyone… but could someone release? It's getting harder and harder to breathe!
I had a PowerMac back in the mid 90s. It died and I used a PC through college. Just got a new MacBook Pro last month. I'm so glad to be back.
About a year ago I switched my office computer from a Dell **shudder** to a Mac Mini. Then an iMac at home. Now saving up for a MBP. Unless somebody out there's feeling generous????
1990- Mac Classic. Loved that thing and so did my entire floor of my Freshman dorm at Baylor University!! The printer took up most of my room!
Dabbled with PC's for awhile but have been faithful ever since.
I had a computer class in KINDERGARTEN in 1986. No joke, I've been using Mac since I was 5. I'll never own a different OS. Ever. I'm a die hard.
August of 2005! It's been four bissful years and counting. I can't believe I ever hesitated to switch. Now I feel so dirty when I'm forced to touch one of those plastic PCs.
3 years ago. bought a macbook pro and will never go back to that Gates guy
Originally, it all began with an Apple II GS back in elementary school. I played Odell Lake and Oregon trail on that thing. In Middle School and high school the Apples went away and my parents bought a PC. I had no choice. In 1999/2000, I was reintroduced to an Apple in the form of an iMac at my university's art school computer lab. I was hooked again and back on track. Started with OS9 and moved onto OSX shortly thereafter with my own Pixar lamp looking iMac in 02.
Good times ever since.
I have 15+ Systems Admin in experience in Mac, Windows and Linux systems.
I like to get work done and fast. Hence, I am on a Mac.
Started on a Mac Plus with external 20 meg hard drive back in 1991'ish. Stayed Mac until 2002'ish for a couple of years. Got addicted to computer games and was working in a PC based company. Switched back in 2007. I'm certainly much happier on a Mac. I do still have a desktop PC just because. Even though it now has Windows 7, it mostly collects dust.
i got a laptop for college two years ago and chose mac for the free printer and ipod deal… i LOVE my mac… and now im an iphone owner too… i will NEVER go back to PC land… even though it makes things slightly more difficult for school as far as some compatibility for projects and stuff, but it is still worth it.
i got my apple about 3 years ago….13" white macbook. love it.
Finally took a bite two weeks ago and had been waiting for years to do it.
Feels so good to say goodbye to the clunky DELL. WiIl never go that route again.
Apple is the way to go on so many accounts.
I bit it at the beginning of this year with a unibody MacBook. So easy to use. I just get more done. The software out there for web design is way better for Mac, too. I used to be a big hater on the Apple, now I realize I was just pretending. And… no… I will address the trolls…
1984
a year this past April. my pc was kicking the bucket, or maybe it was my hope that it really was, b/c my sister has it now and it works fine. I had a need for a new one, but couldn't stand the thought of windows vista (yuck, really, did they really think THAT was a good idea??) so i jumped ship and will stay here forever! it was the best decision that i have made!
i've taken two bites in my life… my dad bought our family the original 1984 mac along with the wide carriage imagewriter… dang… it was amazing. we upgraded and upgraded every version to the mac LCII. when I was in college i switched to PC… mac had lost its way in those days and i could not afford the one I really wanted. i lived and breathed pc for the better part of 10 years
My family has had a Mac in the house (and ONLY a Mac… NO PCs!) since the early 1990's.. so I've been Mac my whole life. I've never owned a PC except for the HP Netbook I bought last spring and hacked to run Mac OSX. I HATE Windows and PCs, seriously can't stand it.
My dad bought me a mac book pro in 2008 after graduating bible college, oh how i wish i had it during the school year, haha.
one month and one week ago :] finally had the money to take the leap! and soo sooo glad!! been wanting to make the switch since just after I graduated from college! That was a loong wait!
Apple II Plus growing up in the 80s. (My parents just recently gave it too me.)
2005 – iBook G4 14"
2006 – MacBook Pro 17"
2007 – iBook G3 12"
sad 2 say at this time cant afford an mac:(
I was 5 & I remember playing on my aunt’s 1984 Macintosh 128k for a few years. I never touched the fruit again till 2003. I used a Power Mac G4 and an iMac that was from 1999 for a design class. In 2004 I started using a PowerBook G3 and a Power Mac G5 for a job I took while in college. I purchased an iPod in 2005. I finally purchased my very own MacBook Pro in 2006. Since then, I bought the iPhone 3G a year ago and just recently upgraded my MBP to SL. I get the shakes and hives when I have to touch a PC.
started using macs for production / post production in 2006-2007. Introduced macs at my new job when I arrived in 2007. Still have a completely worthless vista machine at home, but looking forward to switching soon. I’ll never waste money on a windows machine again.
It was 2000. I had just enrolled in college to study graphic design. The last Windows version I ever used was ME. That left a bad impression and I've never ever returned.
3 years ago bought a used G4 PB and 2 years ago gave that to the fam and bought a MacBook Pro…
Once you go Mac you never go back!!
1996 was first mac (Performa…when they were still beige) Then came the wilderness years (couldn’t afford another mac…inherited and bought Dells and Toshibas. Now have MacBook which I covet (I know I shouldn’t and it’s just a computer….), however, my wife has discovered the joy of the apple, so we may have to get his and hers….
2006, got the 1st gen MacBook the day after it was released… Had been eyeing up a mac for a while though…
I got a used macbook this year and have been "sober" ever since.
I haven't bitten the Apple, and don't plan to anytime soon. The exorbitant cost of Apple's products just isn't good financial stewardship presently for me. Especially not when I can get a PC with 6gb of ram and a 450gb hard drive for less than $600 (recently purchased). The PC does everything I need it to do. I don't edit much video, and I don't mix music. Picassa does great for fixing up pictures I take. I prefer my Zune to any ipod I've ever owned.
When an Macbook is as affordable as a PC I will be first in line to purchase one, Until then, I'm a PC.
I have bad news: A Mac will NEVER be as affordable as a comparable PC (I use that term loosely because there will never be a PC that is comparable to a Mac). Congratulations on your RAM and 450GB, but you will never have the same flawless product quality, FREE face-to-face customer service (rarely needed), and all-around phenomenal user experience that Mac owners enjoy every time they turn on their machines. Consider this, of the five people living with me right now, four have recently deceased Windows machines (myself included). $600 isn't a lot until you factor in longevity and replacement costs. I paid a lot for my 17" Macbook Pro and would have paid a great deal more had I known how amazing it was. Now, when I am forced to use Windows on machines at work, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard. For a few hundred dollars more than what you paid you could have been in a Macbook Pro. When you finally give in, you will NEVER look back. Read every other response to this blog post. It should be apparent.
First Mac was a Mac SE – 1 meg memory, 20 meg internal hard drive. Was working for Sparrow engraving lead sheets and orchestrations, so I needed this computer to do the job. Year? 1987. Price? $2699 for the computer alone. Times have changed!
1984 – have had some sort of mac since they came out. Have had many DOS and Windows machines in that time, too. Now, it's OSX and Linux. I do run windows XP under VMWare Fusion when I need to test something about once a month or so.
oops, delete all those by 'stv' above – hit the enter key a few times, sorry 'bout that.
1984 … Apple IIe
1986 … Apple Macintosh SE (our school had 50 of these in the computer lab !!)
…then a sad period of PC-dom with university…
2007 iMac
2009 MacBook Pro
…and right now, I’m on a Fujitsu laptop that belongs to my employer and I’d rather I wasn’t…
Last year when we started our new church we decided from the start to go Mac and bought 1 tower and 3 MacbookPros. It was my first time ever using a Mac and I LOVED it. Every dollar more that it costs is worth it because this computer works every time I get on it and I'll never have to watch the screen go crazy and lose all my info because of some freaky virus (happened to my husband's PC 2 wks ago).
I remember first using the Apple when I was in the first grade. The REAL floppy disk that you had to insert to start up! I have personal owned mac's for about 4 or 5 years now.
Grew up using Macs at school. Reluctantly went PC during my 1st yr of college in '94. I remember looking at them like, what *are* these machines and why are they so hard to use? Went back to Macs in '04 with an iBook and currently use a MacBook. Hoping to upgrade to MBP next year.
Haven't done it yet. Main reason? It's cost prohibitive. The lowest price Mac (outside of the Mac Mini) is $1000. That's a pretty big chunk of change. I can buy two pretty well loaded notebook PC's for that amount of money.
I like the Mac and would love to own one but I can't justify that kind of expense and my wife and I swore off holding any consumer debt so getting one on credit is not an option either.
Sorry, but this mac love and the photo icons of the comments reminded me of this epic blog post..
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/30/39-app...
You are my hero.
well, my first bite was in high school..learning to program on an apple 2C. Later in 1996 I bought a Performa 6116 CD. You can checkout this sweet machine here: http://www.429bauhaus.no-ip.com/Apple/Performa611...
I'm on my 8th apple now.
Well it actually was my FIRST legit "church-staff" position. I was a long time intern for Woodside Bible Church (awesome place) for years and brought on full time. The position of Student Min. "worship director" was created FOR me (I was the first at wbc) and I had no budget for tech or anything…someone donated about $35,000 to be used as my budget for much needed audio, lighting, video system upgrades… which was a blast for me.
i've never owned my own computer… always been at the mercy my employer. simply waiting for my first apple computer. this finally came to fruition 2.5 years ago when i got my macbook pro. joy. pure joy.
My first Apple was a Classic back in 1990. Yep…the dark ages of computer technology!
I've always used a Mac, since 1993. I had to use a PC at work for report writing and I was always so confused, that I wanted to throw it out the window. I never had to learn anything on the Mac, it just makes total common sense. My hubbie is a Mac evangelist, but he works in a recording studio…
My dad owned a newspaper when I was growing up, so we've always had apple. I mean always. I had 80s apples. That probably cost thousands of dollars and had a harddrive with less memory than you can buy for $9.99 on a flash drive now.
Christmas 2004.
My folks got me an iBook G4.
It made me a "computer person".
I now have 3 macs and will never look back.
2002. Just married. My laptop from college kicked the bucket and we needed something. We were young, we were reckless, we went for it. We set up our MacBook Pro and never looked back.
I tasted the apple back in like 2000 or something with one of those green G3s. I spit it out.
I try to be a better steward of my resources now.
2004 for me… Since then I've purchased 3 MacBooks, 2 iPods, and 3 iPhones.
I originally fell in love playing Oregon Trail and Fraction Munchers on my Apple IIE, and we rekindled our relationship in 2005 when I got a 12" Powerbook G4… followed by a 15" MacBookPro in '08. He's orange. His name is Maddox. Maddox the Macintosh.
I’ve never owned anything else, unless you count the Brother word processor I had in college. I got my first mac (iMac snow) in 2000. Next was eMac. Then PowerBook. Next was mac book pro. Just this year got big 24 inch iMac. Can’t imagine being on the other side.
March 3rd 2005 – 15" Powerbook G4 but I upgraded to a macbook in April 2008.
Seriously could never go back to PC… & I convinced most of my friends to switch over to Mac! heh
In college – graphic design/photography major – lab full of apples – spent a lot of my hours in there.
I guess it was November of 2006. I got an iMac. January of '08 I got my MacBook Pro
The year was 1989. The journalism teacher took a young bright-eyed kid to be on the yearbook staff. I couldn't take the class because I was too young…. oh, to be a freshman again. I was so young then… things were different. But my love of tiny little screen and the apple with a rainbow inside of it never waned. It looked like this: http://eliphoto.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/macin... Sigh. My first love.
I designed the page layout for that yearbook, and my first bite of the apple was so sweet I've never purchased anything else.
i'd love to have one…someday…
I've resisted. I've never felt limited in my creative efforts by a PC, and then there's the research I do for work and school that would bring the available apple software to it's knees. Just no beating the customization that a PC allows for building a purpose built data crunching rock star.
So that's why I don't go there, but it's also always seemed too trendy. Like a product for the label slaves, desperate to look cool so they spend twice as much money. That said my wife has an iphone and I have to say it's an excellent product.
We bought a mac mini in 2005 after having to completely reload (I'm sure that's not the correct computer term but whatever) our PC for what seemed like the hundredth time in 3 years. A computer smart friend (who actually had been the one to fix our PC repeatedly) suggested it and we fell in love! We now have a newer macbook but the mini is still working great, too! LOVE 'em!
1984 was the date for me. Apple IIc sported the tiniest green monochrome screen in history. I used to get into arguments with my friend over whose computer was better. Commodore 64 or the IIc. Traded in my Atari ST in Fall of 91 and got my first mac to score music and program MIDI. Good times.
I even owned a Mac Clone (Power Computing) in the early 90s.
Been all PC until last year when I started working in a Mac office. Ah, my first bite. OSX is a nifty and pretty OS, and I've gotten the hang of it.
But XP has done everything I've ever needed it to. I love all of the freeware and options for customizing available to me. By God's grace, I've never had a PC die on me. I just upgraded when I needed to.
I'll probably stay PC at home unless someone gives me a Mac.
Dang, are there any PC's responding to this?? I'm a PC because that's what my workplace handed me!! It would be too much hassle for me to use two machines when my work laptop comes home with me anyway. I am all about machine uniformity across the environments in my life. It's one machine for me: the free one.
2001 iBook G3/Now on a 2.8GHZ Macbook Pro
back in 2000-2001. needed a laptop so we got one from a european company called Tiny. the lappy had windoze ME & it crashed in a few weeks. in that time, Tiny went out of business in the US so we lost all support. our replacement was a cheap eMac. been a mac head since.
Officially…February 2008.
And now I work for Apple.
And I love it.
1986: Macintosh Plus, with a 20MB (yup..livin large in those days!) external drive. Never stopped biting since….
2005 I bought a 14″ ibook. I remember the exact moment I decided to buy a mac. I was on my hands and knees, leaning down trying to put a jump drive into my PC Tower’s usb port that was ANGLED UP and near impossible to work, without getting on the floor. In that moment I thought, “Apple deserves my money.” I’ve never looked back. Now have a 15″ macbook aluma-pro from 2009. wicked machine.