March 01, 2006
Tales of a Convert
Authored by Aaron Freedman at 9:07 AM
Category | Hardware » My First Mac
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I have to admit, I wasn’t always a Mac user. I used PCs for almost all my life. I was brought into the computer world on a Gateway running Windows 95. But how did I become a Mac user, you may ask? Well, let me tell you.
It all started in Elementary School in 2nd grade when I discovered the Mac. My school was blessed enough to run on Macs, so when I first came there in 2nd grade, my computer classes were held in a lab filled with iMac G3s. They ran on OS 8 or 9, and they really didn”t show much appeal to me. Yet. Fast-forward a year or two and the school gets OS X. I play around with the OS, and, being in my pre-geek days, didn”t do much more with it. Then, when the iMac G4 came in, I got really interested.
The sleek, smooth white design was like nothing that I had ever seen before. I was getting pretty interested. But the big breakthrough for me was my friend Gabe, who showed the full wonders of the Mac.
By 6th grade, I’d blossomed into a decent junior-geek, knowing vastly more than my peers in everything there is to know about computers. At the time my experiences were on a Dell Dimension desktop (typical PC clone) running Windows XP. Around this time, my huge breakthrough occurred. My Bar Mitzvah was fast approaching in a little over a year, and I know that my present had to be a laptop. Originally, I had my eyes on the Sony VAIOs, but for some abrupt reason (I honestly forget), I had a change of mind. I realized, for the very first time in my life, that i wanted a Mac.
By February 2005, my Bar Mitzvah was less than a month away, and I had almost come to a conclusion for my laptop. I originally had my eyes set on a 14” iBook G4, but then the new Powerbooks were released, I immediately persuaded my Dad to get one for me. The PB G4 was most appealing for me because of its included iLife ‘05 which had just come out at Macworld 2005, its faster processor, and its sleek appeal. It was love at first sight.
That March, I had just come home after a long Bar Mitzvah/Birthday party, and I was a little tired, but one thing kept me going. The Mac. I approached the package, opened it up, and there it was, a beautiful Powerbook on my lap.
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I don't know why is this story is so important to be mentioned, many of us switched from PC to Mac, so what, I really don't get it.
Posted by: omar | March 1, 2006 04:20 PM
I completely agree. I'm afraid many of this new poster's post have not been helpful at all so far.
And for some reason, no offense meant to the poster, I'm turned off from the fact that I'm getting my mac news from someone who is in middle school.
I'm suprised MacUser accepted him as a poster.
Posted by: Lee | March 1, 2006 06:19 PM
iMac's at school? How old must you be?
My school's state of the art computer lab had 40 LC's. And I was still running my old but fast SE/30.
Could someone who first saw a Mac when it was in 'MacOS 8/9' have a deep basis for comparison?
Come from System 6 and see the view from up here.
Posted by: Isaac M | May 19, 2006 06:31 PM
Oh shut up. Leave him alone. Just because you're a bunch of forty year old men that have nothing better to do than pick on someone younger than them on the internet and tell them they aren't qualified because they weren't born 30 years earlier doesn't make you any better.
We are the ones that will take care of you when you're old and decrepit and reek of dying flesh in your beds so be nice.
Posted by: Dan | May 20, 2006 01:36 PM
I am a new MAC user. I'm an IT Professional and have never before used a MAC. i love it! I switched because I have had it with Microsoft! I fight with them in corporate America in large development efforts and don't care to at home!
Posted by: Steve Abbott | May 23, 2006 05:43 AM