It’s fun to look back at all the different Macintosh models you have used. Here’s my list:
- Mac Classic (1993-1997)
This was the first Mac that I learned Photoshop on at an Art Institute class. Also used at college to write papers, back in the day of double-density floppy discs not being compatible with high-density floppy discs
- Performa (1993-1997)
All four years of designwork at college was done on one of these pizza boxes. I think it was 80mHz with a 400mb hard drive.
- PowerMac 7200/120 (1996-1999)
My parents’ computer when I was in college, I used it when I lived at home after college.
- PowerMac 7500 (1996-1997, 1997-2000)
The fastest computer at college, but it was haunted, so nobody used it. I also used this model at my first job out of school (Sales Solutions). That computer wasn’t haunted, but the other art director’s 7500 was always buggy.
- Powerbook 145 (1998)
I had a two-hour commute to work each way, and I wanted to use my time better, so I bought this as my first purchase on eBay in 1998. The thing was so heavy it gave me back problems at the time, so now it’s archived on my bookshelf.
- G3 beige desktop (2000)
My first year at Tribune Media Services
- G3 blue and white tower (1999-2002)
The first computer I bought as I moved out of my parents house in 1999
- G4 12-inch PowerBook (2002-2006, 2007)
Bought this in 2002 as I was riding the Metra to Aurora every weekend. The hard drive died in 2006. Replaced the HD in 2007.
- G4 tower (2001-2005, 2006-2007)
Another computer at Tribune Media Services. And my current computer at home as my Powerbook 12-inch died
- G4 eMac (2005-umm)
My parents current computer
- G4 Tower (2006-2007)
another G4 Tower at Tribune Media Services
- MacBook MB061LL/A (2007-2011)
I bought this laptop with the intention of selling it as soon as the newest one came out. But I didn’t keep track of new releases, so I hung onto it for four years. The trackpad busted in 2011.
- MacBook Pro. 15.4-inch: 1.83GHz MA463LL/A (2007-2011)
The laptop I used at work. Has silver keys. It got super turtle slow by 2011.
- iPhone 3G (2009-2011)
About six weeks after I bought this, the iPhone 3GS got released.
- iPhone 4S (2011-present)
I got this on the day it released, just in time for my trip to San Francisco!
- MacBook Pro 15.4-Inch: 2.0GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (MC721LL/A) (2011-present)
The laptop I currently use at work.
- Apple Mac Mini: 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (MC815LL/A) (2011-present)
I’m back to using a desktop at home, because it’s tethered to external hard drives anyways.
- iPad 4 (2011-present)
This replaces my laptop.
What Macintosh models have you used?
Oh I forgot to add the G5 tower I got to use for three months at the end of the first leg of my time at Tribune Media Services in 2005. And then I used a PowerMac 8500 tower at my internship at Media Options in 1996.
Even though the G5 tower had a faster chip speed on than the G4 tower, it seemed slower, cuz the G4 tower had a dual processor that handled multi-tasking much better.
I forgot about that old Powerbook you bought on ebay. I remember we all thought you were crazy for buying a used computer on some crazy e-coommerce auction site called ebay. Remember, that was back in 1998. ebay was still in its infancy then.
It’s amazing that the seller actually hand-delivered it to my work in Glen Ellyn. (He lived in a nearby suburb). He even sat with me and turn it on to show that it worked.
I actually owned the Mac Classic back in the day. At school we used the Performa.
My original Mac was a Mac Plus, then some kind of hopelessly generic Quadra. I use a G4 PowerBook at home and carry an aging iBook around.
I’ve had . . . <li>Macintosh Plus <li>Macintosh SE <li>Peforma 6214CD <li>PowerMac 7200 <li>iBook (blueberry) <li>iBook (dual-USB) <li>PowerMac G5 <li>MacBook Pro
When did the Performas come to IWU? I downloaded Mactracker. It gives great details of every single product ever produced by Apple. If I can narrow down the date, then we can get a good estimate of which exact Performas were in the School of Art. I remember when visited in high school they had only one computer in the design lab. I don’t remember if that was junior or senior year. I want to say it was the end of junior year (spring 1993). Did they have the Performas when we started freshman year? I want to say they just got them in before the beginning of the 93/94 year. I took my first design class second semester freshman year (spring 1994) and they had the performas then.
I posted my list of mac computers on my blog
*Apple IIe- we had these in elementary school and was the first computer I ever used. I loved playing Oregon Trail on it! *Apple IIc – my cousin had it and i played an NBA Basketball game on it at his house. We also had these computers at my Junior High, where i loved to play this Olympics game on it. *Mac Classic-Had these in High school, used the primitive Mac Paint program on it *Mac Quadris- Used this in a computer music class in college, circa 1995 *Mac Performa- My first personal computer! *PowerMac 7500- UofI computer lab computers at the Art Building, upgraded my senior year to the…. *Beige G3 *Blue G3 Tower used at work in the early 2000s *Charcoal G4 Tower.. My second personal computer *Titanium Laptop–My first Laptop *Silver metallic G4 Tower–at the Tribune. I think Matt inherited this computer from me! *iMac g5 first generation–my current baby.