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Well, I hope this is in the right area, but I have an interest in Mac computers as well, not at much of a fascination as vacuum cleaners are, but still there. Just wondered if anyone else out there finds them as interesting as I do.

I don't have too many at this point, and none that run OS 9 or older yet, but what I have so far for the PowerPc Macs are a PowerMac G5 late 2005 2.3GHz, a PowerBook 12in DVI 2004 and a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 2001 with a 1.8GHz upgrade. I also have an iMac G5 of some sort that needs a new power supply.

Anyway, hopefully this thread finds some interest!
 
Oh I think it will, but hopefully unlike the last thread on Macs, people won't be so nasty about them. Still have my 2008 Macbook 4.1 It is beginning to act like a home computer now despite the fact I have a "virgin" Mac Mini that should act as the home computer lol. Also have a Macbook 11 which I use for travelling with. Super designs, super quality and just super for me.
 
I have a few Macs

and they are my computer of choice. I am currently using a 2006 Mac Pro running OS X Lion as the main OS (replaced the Power Mac G5), and I have a Mac Book Pro running OS X Mavericks for on the go computing. I also run Windows on both from a Boot Camp partition on both and in a VM under Parallels (Mac Pro) and VMware Fusion (MacBook Pro). I no longer own any dedicated Windows hardware. I feel I have the best of both worlds on whichever Mac I am using.

I also have:

iMac G4 running OS X Tiger
iMac Core Duo running OS X Snow Leopard
iBook G4 running Leopard

I also run Windows on the iMac Core Duo, but the G4 machines cannot run it because they are Power PC based.

Joe
 
I do have some windows machines as well. I might make a separate thread for that. I have Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit on Bootcamp on my MacBook and XP in VirtualBox. The Vista is there because I bought it right before 7 came out and it included a free 7 copy once it came out. So 7 Ultimate 64 is on my custom built tower, has an Asus board with a 3GHz Core 2 Duo. I also have had Snow Leopard running on it at one time before I bought the Mini. I'd love one of the big aluminum case Mac Pros tho.
 
I love my Mac Pro

It's the best machine I've ever had. It has two dual core Xeon processors, 16 GB of RAM, one 250 GB HDD one 1 TB HDD, and one 128 GB SSD. I installed the OS on the SSD and it runs so fast it is scary. 2008 Mac Pros are going for cheap on eBay right now. I'd love to buy one of the new ones but I can't justify it because this one runs so well.

Joe
 
Not Windows, Not Mac!

But I.B.M, D.0.S!


I have a 1986 I.B.M computer that supposedly runs D.0.S, but the thing needs a new power supply!
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Really old! lol Hopefully you can find one soon so you can play with it!

I'm editing a short video on the G5 now, I use it because it doesn't take much longer to do than on the Mini and it has so much more drive space that I don't want to fill up the tiny drive that came in my Mini, although I'm nearing the point of replacing that drive with a bigger one.
 
Great thread!!

I love Macs! I have two iMacs, three MacBook Pros, a MacBook Air, two iPads, two iPods, an iPhone, and an Apple Hi-Fi speaker in the gym. There's an Apple device or three with me at all times. I absolutely love how all my data can be entered on any device and follow me everywhere. I'll put up pics if anyone's interested. My first Mac was a IIVX in undergrad, followed by a PowerBook 5300c. Then I developed a crush on the Dell dude and switched to Dell for a while. But I returned to Apple and don't plan on leaving at this point.
 
I had a Mac Performa 630cd until recently. We never used it so it got donated. It was from 1994. Honestly it wasn't a bad computer. I used to play a lot of games on it back in the day. I saw an iMac DV at the flea market the other day and one day I might get one of them to have a Mac again.
 
Mac's

Since the Macintosh turned 30 years old on the 24th January, I thought I might as well list mine, most of them are not from new, and have tried putting them in age order. 


 


1993 PowerBook Duo 270c (not working)


1995 PowerMacintoch 7200/90 (working)


1999 iMac G3 Blueberry (partly working)


1999 iBook Clamshell (not working)


1999 PowerMac G3 B&W (working)


2000 iMac G3 DV Indigo (works - great music centre!)


2002 PowerMac G4 (works par loud noise)


2002 iMac G4 15" (works)


2003 PowerMac G5 (works- the main image/video/music computer and server)


2004 iBook G4 (no longer works)


2010 iMac 24" Dual Core 2 (main computer)


2013 MacBook Pro 13" (main laptop, replacement for the iBook G4)


 


Was once a Mac collected but the passion for collecting them has gone. Still use most of the working ones as often as possible.


 
 
Macs ...

I've been using Macs since the "Macintosh Classic" in the mid-'80s (office computer). I thought I was really hot stuff when I upgraded to the "Macintosh SE" (also office computer).

I bought my very first personal computer in 1997 ... one of those snazzy teal-colored Apple iMacs. It was an exciting time to get a new computer; going "online" on the Internet was still a new thing for me. Loved the design (except the awkward mouse). I try not to get attached to *things*, but it made me sad the day I set my trusty iMac -- after its motherboard had fried -- on the curb of my Brooklyn street on a rainy night. :(

I upgraded in 2000 to a 15-inch titanium PowerBook. That served me until 2006, when I got my current 24" iMac.
 
I have a crapton of Macs... I love them all.

Mac Plus
Mac SE (In Box)
Mac Classic II (Bad caps)
Powerbook 160 (The adhesive in the screen dried up and split :/)
Performa 630CD
PowerBook 1400c
2 Tray loading Blueberry iMac G3s
2 Orange slot loading iMac G3s
1 Graphite iMac G3
Blueberry iBook G3
PowerMac G3
12in 1ghz PowerBook G4
PowerMac G4 450mhz dual (Gigabit Ethernet)
PowerBook 15in 1.5ghz
Late-2006/Early 2007 Core 2 Duo iMac (20in)
Mid - 2011 21.5in iMac (Core i5 2.7ghz, 12gb RAM, 6770M - Daily Driver)
Late - 2011 15in MacBook Pro (2.6ghz i7, 8gb RAM, 6750M - Daily Driver)

Yeah... I'm a bit of a Mac fan but I love Windows just as much and Linux fairly well. It's just easier and more rewarding to collect macs.
 
Is it a clamshell model? Those a dream to run OS9 on. I took mine apart and put a 20gb 7200rpm drive in it with 576mb of RAM. My favourite model to run OS9 on. So fast.
 
No, it's a newer white one. Looks identical to a iBook G4. 7 or 800MHz I believe. 20GB drive and 256mb of ram. Going to max out the ram immediately. It has 10.3 installed, I think I'm going to either completely erase the drive, or at least divide it so I can install 9.2. I I so when it was new it had OS X and 9 both installed out of the box, so I kinda want to do that but leave 9 as the default boot OS.
 
I find OSX to be pretty terrible on any G3 machines (besides the PowerMac G3. That thing is a beast.)

I would recommend OS 9. It's rare to have such a beautiful UI on such a beautiful machine. Platinum sounds reminds me of my 2nd grade typing class so it's very nostalgic for me.

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That one looks like its in such good shape too! I just couldn't find the clamshell type in decent shape for the price I wanted to pay. I looked at the listing again and I believe I have a 2001 version, so the first of the newer style, and I have a 600MHz CPU. It came with both OS 9.2.1 and OS 10.1, and mine is coming with 10.3.2 on it. It is supposed to be able to run 10.4, but I'm not sure I'll push it that far...

I made a video of my G5 but its taking forever to export, its a 22min video and I had to render it for 5 hours and now export it for what it claims will be another 4, but might be less. In the meantime however, here is a video of my MacBook, I didn't edit it at all so I was able to just upload it.

 
Awesome! I cannot find a G5 at a decent price for the life of me. I kinda want a snow iBook but I can't think of paying for one. Oh well.

The Clamshell in is great condition. It seems like it sat on a desk for it's entire life. (And considering the teacher applications that were originally installed on it, I'd say it sat on the teacher's desk.)

I only paid $35 for mine on eBay. The RAM was $6 and the hard drive was $11. I think I got a pretty good deal.
 
If I could have found a clamshell like yours for that price I'd have one, but I can't find a deal that good.

I bought the G5 in late 2008 for $500, and until I bought my Mini the G5 was the desktop I used for everything. like I said in the video, I still use it for idea editing, tho I'm still playing with various codecs to see if I can speed up the rendering and exporting time. Any thoughts? I know a converter called MPEG-Streamclip is going to be part of the answer to the problem.
 
I actually just changed from HP Windows to over to a new IMac and I love it!!! I never really wanted to work with Mac until started using one at work and I would it to be very nice and when I saw how well they work with data base programs I completely changed my mind. 
 
When w first got a computer it was a Windows 95 machine a cousin built from fairly recent (at the time, 96-ish) used parts. I barely understood it but could do what I needed it to do, that was replaced in 2001 with a fairly well loaded Sony Vaio desktop that I still have, complete with all the manuals and disks and original accessories. I kinda knew how to use Windows enough to do it and I wasn't good with computers much at all. I should get the Sony all together and make a video of it, would be interesting, we really did do well on that purchase. But anyway, at that point in my life I didn't care for Macs simply because I felt so lost when I was trying to use them. This was still in the time os OS9. Later on in high school I had a class that I had to use an eMac for, we all did in that class, we were assigned a seat at a computer desk. They started growing on me at that point, running probably OS 10.3, I remember when they were upgrading the macs to 10.4. We didn't have any Intel Macs when I was in HS, as they were brand new my senior year, we had some iMac G3s, tons of eMacs, and I know in the yearbook room the teacher had a PowerMac G5, everyone else used eMacs, I had a friend that was in the class. The first computer I had tat was all one to myself was a Compaq laptop, and even though I kept a decent antivirus on it and all the stuff you are supposed to do, it was never as stable and reliable as I'd like, so that I think is what really pushed me to try a Mac.
 
My "work horse" is a late-2010 MacPro2 running OSX10.6.8 (I haven't upgraded OS yet under the advice of my computer consultant) with:

- 8Ghz quad processor

- 8gb ram

- 27" LED Cinema Display

- two 2gb hard drives (one of which serves as Timeline backup)

- Adobe Creative Suite 5 Premium (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash Catalyst, Fireworks, Bridge & Acrobat Pro), QuarkXPress 8.5.1, and the complete Adobe font library plus a zillion other misc. fonts

I have a really nice Samsung 15" laptop that Arlee is currently using, and a fairly crummy HP 13" PC laptop that I use down at the church (connected to their wireless network) and when traveling. (I bought the two laptops in 2010 when I got my new Mac.)

I've been a diehard Mac enthusiast ever since the first time I laid hands on a Quadra 900 in 1991, at the printing company where I worked at the time. I admire the strengths of the Microsoft platform but have never been able to warm up to its "geek" aesthetic which still underscores all its products.
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My first!

Was a 486 (I forget the name) but I think it just had "PC Systems" on the case, it was running DOS, and a friend of ours installed Windows 3.1 on it. Then I got my first Macintosh, my aunt found out I liked Macs, so she gave me her Performa 575 all in one. I really liked that machine, but it died, just wouldn't turn on anymore, by that time we had already gotten an AMD with Windows 98 as my first online computer. We found a Mac Performa 637CD to replace the 575 with though. After the AMD, I had gotten an HP Pavillion desktop with Windows XP in 2003. It worked pretty well but the Celeron processor started getting really slow running online and new programs. So last year I had an AMD based gaming PC built and running Windows 7. It's the fastest I've had!

I might eventually get an older Mac, probably an iMac, so that I can play old games on it.
 
I forgot...

There were a lot of them in school when I was a kid. Elementary school had lots of LC 575 and LC 5200 all in one units and color StyleWriter and ImageWriter printers. The computer lab had all Apple IIgs with color monitors and 3.5" external disk drives. The computer teacher had a PowerPC G3 all in one plus one more off to the side. The last year I was there, the Apple IIgs were replaced by the first iMac G3 in blueberry and there were iMac posters on the walls showing all five colors. I thought that was really cool.

The middle school too had LC 575 and LC 5200, most of the teachers had Dells though. There was one teacher who still used an LC 575 and a blue G3 tower. There were a few LC III+ and Quadra 660 as well, but they weren't often used. The LC 575 and LC 5200 were still being used daily when I left middle school. The high school didn't have any Macs that I can recall, all Dells.
 
I have a Mac Pro also

and it is a powerhouse for sure.  Mine has dual 2 dual core Xeon processors, 16 GB RAM, and 4.5 TB of disk.  I'm currently running OS X 10.7.5 on it as the  host OS only because I can't upgrade any higher because Apple limited what model machines can run newer versions. Not because the machine is incapable of running it.  Worse is that when Apple releases a new OS version (be it iOS or OS X) they drop all support for previous versions.  They don't even provide security updates.  That means unless you are running a good virus detector, you are vulnerable.  However with the magic of VMware, I CAN and do run the newer versions in a VM (and you'd never know it was running in a VM). 
 
I definitely want a Mac Pro, I'm planning on saving up for one soon.

You can get a newer OS than 10.7 to install and run fine on the older Mac Pros. There's no real technical reason they can't other than Apple trying to outdated them.
 

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