Apple Addict

Brando

Brando

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It started with my first ipod back in 2004 :D, then I foolishly waited for Leopard to get an iMac. Now i have procured macbook. Where will it end, how did I become such an apple fanboy.

It was a bargin to be fair.

£380 delivered for a 2.0 dual core white mb with 60gig hdd and a gig of ram (boxed with case and bt might mouse).

Then £107 spent @ ocuk:

Toshiba 250GB 5400RPM SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (MK2546GSX)
Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C5 200-Pin SODIMM Dual Channel Kit (CT2KIT12864AC667)


= ideal travel mate/travel dev machine for me :D

Anyone else bought one and realised it's the tip of the iceburg?

(Must resit a mac mini now :D)
 
Always wanted a Mac, but was stuck with PC for too long and finally converted. Anyway:

iPod
Started with an iPod Mini, then sold that to buy a 60GB iPod Photo. Sold that and bought a 5th generation iPod Video, then currently an iPod Classic.

iPhone
Bought an iPhone in December.

Macs
Bought a MacBook Pro (2.4Ghz Santa Rosa) the day they were released, OS X Leopard and iLife '08 the day they were released.

Also ordered a Time Capsule when it was released, but cancelled the order because I'm too impatient to wait for delivery.

And been to Regent Street and Bluewater Apple Stores about 100 times...
 
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iPod history
- iPod 1st-gen (5GB) with mechanical scroll wheel! (2002)
- iPod Video 5th-gen (30GB), black (2006)
- iPod Shuffle 2nd-gen (1GB) (2007)
- iPhone (8GB) (2008)

Still got all of them, but probaly going to sell the iPod fifth-gen now I have the iPhone. The shuffle is for the gym/running, and the original iPod is a scuffed, zero-battery museum piece!

Mac history
Apple Classic (1993-4ish?)
Apple LC475 (1994-8)
A couple of windows machines... (boo hiss) 1999-2006
iMac 20" (Dec-2006 onwards) :D
 
I remember when my dad was teaching art history - I bunked on a school trip with him in the school holidays and went to a design office.. There I laid my eyes upon my first apple macintosh...

Somehow from that wonderful moment *imagines soulful violin music* I got lost and went down the pc route...

But after seeing sense at the end of last year, I'm now well and truly switched.. Even though I *have* to use windows based hardware in work - cos the software I use isnt available for mac - I still consider myself a switcher.

Bought my first gen ipod for about £400 for 20gb I think.

As a self confessed fan of industrial design - I think the addition of Ive to the design team at apple single handedly changed the fortunes around.. Also having Steve *BOOM* Jobs back at the helm couldnt have harmed their chances!

I love my mac - its just nice sometimes to sit in a starbucks and see everyone pull out the dell's or hp's. When I pull out my macbook, It seems to 'fit' the decor more!

Anyway, o/t.

I think it was reading reviews, after reviews, after reviews and listening to people like Justin and EVH and 5BJoshua on here that swayed me. I also spent about 3 weeks cumulatively poking around my 'not so local' mac store...

Definitely a move I won't regret!

Tom
 
itsallaboutyou said:
Bought my first gen ipod for about £400 for 20gb I think.
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20gb? Pah! Take your 2nd-gen, touch sensitive scrollwheel and get out of here. Unless you know the joys of removing the plastic wheel (with the careful use of some sellotape) and cleaning out the dust/sand/grit from behind it, you can't call yourself a first-gen owner! :p
 
My first experience with a Macintosh was in Year 10/11 of Comprehensive school.

Ghastly OS 9 thing, not a good first impression! :mad:

Went all the way to Uni without owning a Mac, then when I started my Sound Technology degree it was thrust in my face; learn the OS or get a crap grade.

I went through the first year defiant in my SFF PC routes, only using the PowerMac G5's when I had scheduled recording session classes.

It wasn't until later on in the first year that I finally caved when I used a friends iMac G5. I was so impressed with the all-in-one-ness and swanky OS that I Sold up and bought one myself! :D

Went through the typical "Ooo, I may get an iPod to go with this Mac" phase about 2 months after the initial purchase (which was a 60GB iPod photo) and it escalated from there.

Went out and bought myself a top-spec PowerMac G5 (via my dad's business) and did my coursework on that. Later on in the year I sold the iMac and bought a new iMac Core 2 Duo.

Literally 3 months down the line I got fed up with the iMac and went and got myself a 17" MacBook Pro. Several incarnations later (had em' all up to the current model) and I'm back to an iMac.

Since selling the iPod 60GB, I upgraded to the 80GB, and then upgraded to a 160GB Classic and then added an iPhone in November the day they were released... and then an iPhone 16GB the day they were released!!

Somewhere in amongst all that I sold my PowerMac G5 and bought an AirPort Extreme base station & AirPort Express out of the left over money... looking to buy a Mac Pro.. the hunt goes on..
 
Never owned an actual Mac. Thought about it but just can't justify the cash over my current Frankenstein PC.

iPods:
3rd Gen 20GB
5th Gen 60GB
16GB touch

I miss all of the accessories you used to get with the iPods. My 20GB iPod came with a case, dock, remote, AC adaptor, etc. Still, the touch is easily the best iPod I've owned and I can't wait for the SDK to be released. :)
 
Began the whole apple fascination when I got my iphone a few months back, now in the process of selling my pc to get a macbook. Still fairly new to the whole apple thing but massively excited by getting a macbook in the next week or so.
 
AdWright said:
@EVH: Wow, that's a lot of £££ on Apple gear. Out of interest, when you sold kit, did you get a fair proportion of the retail value back?
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Yes, it varied from about 80% - 110% resale value.

By 110% I mean I bought it via HE discount, and sold it on for a profit (not intentionally, I'd keep it for about 3 months before selling)

Most / all of them were sold on eBay, but only a fraction were ended there. In other words buyers would email me and come to collect with cash :)

The best deal I ever did was for my iMac G5.. had it for about 4 months, and they'd (Apple) had just released a new Intel version, so I was sure I would get low £££ for it.. put it on eBay anyway and it sold for a nice return.

I actually buy and unlock iPhones for a tidy profit now too.. it's great ;)
 
iPod

4th gen 20GB
1st gen Nano
5th gen 30gb video

iPhone 16gb*

Mac

iBook G4*
iMac 20" C2D*

* Stuff I still own
 
iPod
4th Gen 20GB
Classic 80GB

Mac
iBook G4

iPhone 8GB

Bought the 4th Gen first then followed by the iBook a year later then the Classic and the iPhone more recently.
 
Between me and my gf
2nd Gen 5GB iPod (mechanical wheel, mac only)
iPod Mini
iPod Nano
iPod Nano in Pink
4th Gen iPod? (was 40GB with a dot matrix screen)
iPod Video

G3 iBook (think about 2001/2002, got it when OSX had not long came out)
1st gen macBook core duo (still got and use, about 2 years old?)
 
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