I’ve been an Apple user for a long time now. I’m not one of those people that was using a IIe. I’m not even one of those people that were using the first iMacs that looked like rainbows threw up on them, but I am one of those Apple users that had a Mac before everyone and their mother had one.
My first Mac was the Titanium PowerBook. OS X hadn’t even been released yet and OS 9 was terrible! The processors were PowerPC processors. They were slow and ran hot. All the good games were written for Windows back then too. Still, when people saw me sitting on campus with that bad boy, it drew stares especially from the ladies.
Apple products have come a long way. They are leaps and bounds better than when I first started out with them. Still there’s part of me that longs to be a part of that club that wasn’t all that cool but it was special. Now you can’t step foot into a coffee shop without seeing a few glowing apples.
Maybe I’ll get a Dell. No one has one of those.
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perhaps I will go back to OS/2 Warp. Now *that* is cool! Nobody uses it. haha.
But really, if you do want some geek/cool factor on your laptop, check these bad boys out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCbook
Run linux on it. Throw gnome/kde away for something like fvwm, afterstep or wmaker, and the ladies you actually do draw stares from will surely be keepers.
I’m going to get a Newton and start using it. Screw your iPhones!
OMG! I HAD A TITANIUM POWERBOOK TOO! G5? it just died on me two months ago. sigh…
Mine was the original 400Mhz G4. I think the G5 units were the Aluminum ones. No?
yes, you are quite the apple trendsetter. although I DID have an apple IIe, I was a sworn Dell customer in college. That is, until you and Arun introduced me to the world of the Titanium Powerbook. Your international forces rendered my PC loyalty powerless.
my earliest memory of apple being cool was when my buddy was able to crack macaol to sign in with guide privileges, and it wouldn’t work on winaol.
oh teenchat.
oh asianchat.
oh 1995.
i remember when ucla got a bunch of the turquoise imacs donated to their cda lab. i think that was the start of the cool. then the ‘graphite’ ones came out to trump the turqs. then the tower versions.
oh hockey puck mice. i hated you so, but you were just. too. cute.
maybe if you got one of those and wore it around your neck like flava flav it would be bringing back (starting new) the cool trend.
eWear. or iWear.
I had a Apple II back in elementary school… holla!
Spy vs Spy in color too.
The first Apple I owned was an iBook G4, though I wanted to get the clamshell G3 (and would have, if I had had the money at the time) in green.
NERD!
A Dell? I hope you don’t void warrantees. ;)
You know I do!
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