When was the peak timeframe of your Apple love? Your apex.

[Ken Sp.]

January 9, 2007
Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone with the best Keynote ever.

[jdc]

SDGuy wrote:
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When was the peak timeframe of your Apple love?

Thinking back - it appears to be nine years ago

By far the best deal I've ever gotten on a computer, and it's still my daily-use machine. I'm posting this from it actually...
Silly thing is, you could copy/paste that same thread today (but change the model names) and get the same respnonses, 10 years later...

[ka jowct]

Loved my IIci, my 7600, my 9600, my 2002 MDD, and still love my 2010 Mac Pro.

[davemchine]

OS9 was so frustrating and then OSX beta came out and I was hooked. Unix! Then iLife came out and I was floored. Snow Leopard was the high point for me for both stability and looks. Everything since then has been a slow slide downward for me. One of the things I really loved about early OSX was updates that did not require a reboot. My primary computer went over a half year without a reboot! Now I reboot 1-2x a week which makes me mad.

[Lew Zealand]

Hard to say as I've been using Apple computers for 36 years...

It may have been when we got our //e in 1983, I spent a *lot* of time on that and friends' //es, //cs and ][+es.

A few Apple computers later, it may have been when I got a used 7600/132 from LACC in 1997. That ended up being used for another 14 or 15 years with dozens of different upgrades in it, including 7 different processor upgrades ending up with a 1GHz G4. It ran every OS from 7.5.5 through 10.4.11. It was a beast!

It certainly isn't now as the Little Zealands are gaming on NUCs running Windows 10. But then only a fool would give up 25% of their gaming framerates on a low end machine due to OS choice.

[GuyGene]

I attended every Tokyo MacWorld Expo. OS X announcement at '99 expo. Great time.

[ka jowct]

I liked OS8.6 a lot, and the case designs of the 7600-8600-9600s. I think Tiger on my MDD was a high point. But the 2010 Mac Pro is my favorite of desktop models, and Snow Leopard my favorite OS X version.

[Buzz]

Lots of ups and downs, but the ups were many... a much upgraded "Fat Mac" 512K was kinda fun in the early days. Then a probably/definitely more upgraded Mac II. The IIcx was memorable for adding the first big screen color monitor. The Q650 was very productive, as was its PM7100 successor. I really loved the PM8100 and kept it spotless, but it was more of a dog and pony show than a real producer for us. A couple of SE/30's were the pinnacle of classic sized Macs. The clone wars begot a trio a of PowerCenter Pro mini-towers a couple of which were real heroes. Some beige G3 iron boded well. Still have a FrankenMac'ed PM7300 w/ 500MHz G3 card, max RAM, drives, PCI cards that has been worth its weight in medium denomination coins. A couple of slot loading G3 iMacs are in the faves pile. Some G4 towers were good (not gonna relive the bad ones here, though). The G5 2.3GHz dual core tower was pretty awesome until its PSU had issues (not gonna comment on the G5 quads w/ the radiators). Fairly good luck w/ one of the Mac Pro towers (save for some heat related issues), but when it's cool, it's really cool. Made decent money on the Mac Pro towers that got sold (or probably should say, lost a couple of hundred bucks less on those investments by luckily timely finding motivated buyers).

Laptop-wise, inflation adjusted, the PB3400 was a real boon to the bank account; right place, right time, most all around productive Mac ever. Pismo still ranks as all time fave laptop, though 14" G3/G4 "iceBooks" ended up being more roadable in favor of protecting the Pismo for posterity. All the iBooks are gone, but the Pismo remains. I loved the idea and look of the G4 TiBooks, but the real world never panned out. Eventually, C2D and i7 MBP's have been excellent, and productive companions. The MBA has its place, but since I need my heavy duty walker to get around, and it schleps the laptop bag, I'm just not the guy that appreciates the MBA since I don't really have to carry it, so the 15" MBP's still prevail.

Expo-wise, they were all good, until they weren't. As a whore for positive attention and feedback (and good food), the expos where I won stuff, or got good deals on stuff, or had a great meal are all high points. MWSF after 9/11 was a mixed bag; I had flown as a passenger a few times in between, and complained to Mrs. Buzz about the added rigors of travel post 9/11. Since Mrs. Buzz is a flight attendant by profession, she had certainly flown more than I had, but only as an airline employee doing her job. She took no pity on me and gave me rations of crap every time I complained. When she flew as a passenger for the first time post 9/11, it was to meet me in the Bay Area, in part for MWSF. When she arrived as a passenger, her attitude had been adjusted with extreme prejudice, so I asked her if she wanted me to give her a helping of her own crap back, or if she wanted to consider apologizing in light of her new attitude. That kind of stuff is always memorable.

There have been lots of positive Mac experiences, and having been a Mac guy before there even were Macs, it's doubtful I'll been swapping allegiances anytime soon. I was fortunate enough to get my hands on two of the five original Lisa prototypes, and was immediately hooked.
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[jdc]

PowerTowerPro 225 and PowerCenter Pro 240

I went to all the MWSF expos to snag free stuff and watch demos. Remember the year Palm had at least a 100 x 100 booth with announcers on a second floor of the booth throwing free palm stuff into the crowd.

[davester]

Twice. First was when I first plugged in my 6100 and played with the 3D digital atlas it came with (sort of a crude version of Google Earth plus graphical geographic statistics) plus the brand new Myst game.

Second was going to Macworld and seeing an iPhone shortly after Steve's keynote and then shortly thereafter owning one. That was a quantum leap.