this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
3 points (100.0% liked)

Apple

156 readers
1 users here now

A magazine for news and discussion about a small Silicon Valley fruit company.  ### See also

founded 2 years ago
3
I wonder how long everyone here has been using Apple equipment. I’m an old greybeard so we’re taking 68k era for me. Well, Apple II really!! Then PowerPC then Intel and some newton and og iPod and of (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by cylon_jg@kbin.social to c/apple@kbin.social
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I wonder how long everyone here has been using Apple equipment. I’m an old greybeard so we’re taking 68k era for me. Well, Apple II really!! Then PowerPC then Intel and some newton and og iPod and of course iOS.

What’re everyone‘s Apple history? I’d be interested to hear!

#apple

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] wchanley 2 points 1 year ago

Our household computer was a IIe, then an SE, and when I trundled off to college, the first Mac I half-bought, sort of on my own, was an SE/30. (Parents paid for half, hehe.)

Then in either 1992 or '93, I graduated to a IIvx (color! Macintosh! OMG!)... and then, in '96, I moved to the gloriousness that was the Powerbook 1400 (PowerPC! GOES EVERYWHERE!), and it was all over for me and desktop Macs. I've been a Powerbook & MacBook fanatic ever since. The 1400 was followed by a Pismo Powerbook G3 in either '99 or 2000, then an iBook G4 (GARAGEBAND, omg omg) in 2003 or '04.

Then a succession of 13" MacBook Pros, culminating in... last year's M2 MacBook Air, which is, hands down, my favorite Mac ever, ever, ever, in the history of the universe. Runs literally everything I can throw at it, including the occasional Linux or Windows apps I need for client stuff (UTM ftw, hehe), essentially weightless in a backpack... if it ever throttles, I literally never notice.

I can't possibly love this little guy more. It feels just... utterly perfect, in ways very little else has, since that SE/30, years, and years ago.