Yikes.

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So all of you self-professed "Mac snobs" who didn't even freaking use one until iPods came

I liked Macs, but between the price premium (which used to be significant) and the fact that OS 9 was pretty obsolete, I waited until OS X was out for a bit and stable before buying my first Mac (G3 iBook) in '03.

At least I bought it before I bought my first iPod.

eta: So a big appeal to me as that OS X is Unix-y. For me, Macs were more a replacement for Linux than Windows.

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For me, Macs were more a replacement for Linux than Windows.

Me too. That's when it became both a really pretty thing and a geek machine. Also it coincided with me having the disposable income.

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Yikes.

Uh-huh. If any of TPTB at work knew anything about computers, they'd be fucking impressed with what I coax out of that thing, and the (relative) speed with which I do it.

Hence the being willing to take this old laptop to work and make it my primary computer there. (Okay, it's also a justification for buying a new Macbook for home. But still!)

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Teppy wow, I am impressed! That sucker is ancient. I can tell already that it's going to be weird going back and firth between home and work pcs now; my work pc is 4 years old and it takes 2 minutes to start up and is slow as frozen molasses dealing with software.

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Yeah, mr. flea was converted to Macs because of Linux dual-boot. But, he's an engineer. And a total Mac snob, too. We have a G4 tower at home that dates back to 2002 (and has had memory upgrades), and it runs pretty good. It's gotten so it's not worth watching Youtube on it, since the videos are a little herky-jerky, but for everything else we do it's fine.

I used Macs starting with the Apple IIC in high school, and it was a bit of an adjustment when I started work in a Windows environment, but now I hardly notice the difference. Except when I want to cut and paste and use the wrong key+X combo, which is SO DEEPLY ANNOYING. (And it doesn't matter which machine I'm on, I always use the wrong one.)

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Except when I want to cut and paste and use the wrong key+X combo, which is SO DEEPLY ANNOYING. (And it doesn't matter which machine I'm on, I always use the wrong one.)

this why I won't consider a mac at home. Going back and forth to a PC at work would drive me nuts. Yes, I would eventually get (mostly) used to it, but I would go bonkers and cranky in the interim

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I have more trouble with the different PC keyboards I have to use. There's enough sensory difference between the Powerbook and the PCs that I can find the Windows key and the command key quite separately.

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Except when I want to cut and paste and use the wrong key+X combo, which is SO DEEPLY ANNOYING. (And it doesn't matter which machine I'm on, I always use the wrong one.)

I thought this would be an issue for me, but it turned out not to be. I'm constantly switching between PCs and Macs, but my brain almost always uses the correct keys for cut, copy and paste.

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So all of you self-professed "Mac snobs" who didn't even freaking use one until iPods came around, I laugh at you.

Ya, I'm a late adopter of the Mac. I started out on the TRS-80 model III, where you had to write code for each pixel "let x= blah and y=blah". Then in 9th grade, I was introduced to the 128k Mac, with a mouse! And MacPaint! And never looked back. I guess that all started around 1985 or so.

Except when I want to cut and paste and use the wrong key+X combo, which is SO DEEPLY ANNOYING.

Yes!

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