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eMac

17" CRT | Maximum resolution of 1280x960

1,33 GHz G4

512 MB 133 MHz SDRAM

80 GB HD

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

iMac

24" LCD | Maximum resolution of 1920x1200

2,8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

500 GB HD

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Windows Vista Business

Extra

iPod 5g 30GB

Universal Dock & Apple Remote

harman/kardon SoundSticks II

Western Digital My Book Pro Edition 500 GB

  • 2 weeks later...

Powerbook 15"

- 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4

- 1.5 GB Ram

- 80 GB HD

- OS X 10.4.10

Mac mini

- 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4

- 512 MB RAM

- 40 GB HD

- OS X 10.4.10

Updated with:

iMac 24"

- 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

- 1 GB RAM

- 320 GB HD

- OS X 10.4.10

- Windows XP Pro

Extra:

- Nokia N95

- iPod Nano 4 GB Silver

- WD My Book Premium 500 GB

- WD My Book Premium 160 GB

- Logitech Harmony 525

  • 2 weeks later...

New Mac user here. I've been on Windows comps since Windows 3.0. Used Linux Red Hat and Mandrake for a year, but didn't have enough usablity for what I wanted at that time, so went back to Win2000 (yes it was a while ago). Been using XP since it came out, and don't plan to downgrade to Vista. Not worth it, as XP works just fine.

Bought me the following for my own music recording, and I needed a laptop:

Macbook 2.0GHz Duo Core 2 White

1GB Ram (soon to be upgraded to 2GB)

80GB hard drive

13" screen

I basically got the basics that you can get. At the moment, I don't need any bigger hard drive, and once I get my Mac Tower, thats where the majority of the music I'll be recording will be stored, not on the Macbook. And if the harddrive starts getting full, I've still got a 200GB harddrive in my XP machine that I can just drag things over, via my network.

I am so far very happy with my purchase, and just bought a book to learn the complete ins and outs. I think I will fully convert once I buy the tower in a year or so. My XP machine will probably be kept for my wife. Though she likes Mac's, she admits she can use the XP easier.

  • 4 weeks later...

Started off with;

iBook G4 12-inch

PowerPC 800MHz

30GB Hard drive

640MB of Ram

CD-RW

OS-X Panther

This was used for about a year, I customised it and filled the 30Gb with Mac Zeolot documents, e-books and styles. This was then passed onto my father as his first Mac, while I upgraded to;

iBook 12-inch

PowerPC 1.2GHz

40Gb Hard drive

1Gb or Ram

CD-RW

OS-X Panther

I used this laptop to develop my Macintosh skills, this was the first Mac that I actually bought 3rd party apps for. Shapeshifter and Candybar helped with the customisation. I researched the power of Macs by downloading hundreds of unix and Mac e-books. I then updated Panther to Tiger. Again this laptop was passed to my father, he returned my 800MHz iBook which was sold on eBay for ?350. I then instantly upgraded to;

1.83GHz Intel Core Duo

1Gb Ram

60Gb Hard drive

CD-RW

OS-X Tiger

My plans are to keep this book for a while longer, upgrade it to Tiger in October and continue to use it as my main notebook. When I feel like I require an upgrade this again will be passed onto my father and I will look to Apple.com to find out what options are available to me. This upgrade is scheduled to happen within the next 3-4yrs, so plenty of time for Apple to astound me.

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 3 weeks later...

Slight update. Bought a new iPod and got rid of Windows Vista Business on my iMac. Upgraded both Macs to Mac OS X Leopard as well.

eMac

17" CRT | Maximum resolution of 1280x960

1,33 GHz G4

512 MB 133 MHz SDRAM

80 GB HD

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

iMac

24" LCD | Maximum resolution of 1920x1200

2,8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

500 GB HD

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

iPod Classic

Silver

80 GB

Extra

The new Universal Dock & 2x Apple Remote

harman / kardon SoundSticks II

Western Digital My Book Pro Edition 500 GB

  • 2 weeks later...

I run 2 Macs. One is my media server/HTPC, and one is my main system and video editing workstation.

HTPC:

PowerPC G4 867MHz

1.5GB PC133 SDRAM

8x DVD+/-RW (Single layer)

16x DVD+/-RW (Dual layer) (attached via IEEE1394)

1x160GB Ultra-ATA/100 HDD

2x200GB Ultra-ATA/100 HDD

1x750GB Ultra-ATA/100 HDD (all HDDs Seagate Barracuda model, no RAID)

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition

And the crown jewels...

1x250MB Zip drive!

Attached to a 32" Panasonic Tau HD RPTV

Main system:

2xDual-core PowerPC 970 @ 2.5GHz

6.5GB PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM

2x 16x DVD+/-RW (Dual layer)(One internal, one connected via IEEE1394 w/LightScribe)

1x250GB SATA HDD

1x300GB SATA HDD

NVidia something-or-other GPU, either 128MB or 256MB, don't remember which offhand.

Attached to 1x Acer 24" LCD @ 1920x1200 and 1x Princeton Graphics 17" LCD @ 1280x1024

Both running 10.4.whateverslatest

i dont remember if i posted here or not so here i go...: =)

macbook black

core 2 duo 2ghz

1gb ram

120gb hdd

running mac os x 10.4.10 still

mainly used for graphics, some gaming, school and music (editing, producing, live),

pretty much my allround-machine for private and business purposes... i carry it almost

everywhere...

ipod 5gen

30gb

about 27 used, mainly for music, no videos, 1 picture, dont even know what it shows... :)

i use it everyday for almost two years now, it never died on me, still looks decent and

has the certain retro-factor, now.

using phillips/sennheiser earbuds, switching whenever i feel like

additional

m-audio keystation 49e, best for carrying around to gigs and whatever.

korg mini kaoss pad

canon pixima ip4000

canon canoscan lite50

logitech z4 black

:)

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