“Apple Computer’s celebrating its 30th birthday, and you’re invited. Tell us how the company’s products have impacted you over the years. And be sure to include photos of you with your favorite Apple computers or gadgets,” CNET writes. “We’ll include a sampling of your submissions in an upcoming CNET News.com report.”
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CNET will do anything to get more hits!
bed: well, you can use it in a good sentence.
And PLEASE, only tasteful pictures. Nothing overly creative with the mouse cord or floppy slots.
That means you Turd Ferguson.
Is CNET deserving of this? If it was a Mac site maybe…
“Is CNET deserving of this?”
Who knows?
But maybe, just maybe, they can write an Apple or Mac related article without once using the words: cultists, zealots, niche, tiny marketshare, mercurial, beleaguered, overhyped, skeptical, risky, or overpriced. HAHAHAHAHAHA ! ! ! ! Just kidding. Whew! I laughed a little too hard and now it hurts.
Seems to me the kind of stories and photos CNET is asking for will just end up helping support their belief that Mac users are cultists or zealots.
Anyone who submits anything should restrict it to boring stories about rolling out large scale corporate installations with photos of Macs in a large business setting. OK, I know that’s going to be hard to come by, but c’mon, you’re telling me they aren’t hoping people send in photos of their one bedroom apartments filled with dozens of old Apple II, Macintosh SE’s, NextCubes and discarded Newton Messagepads so they can laugh and make fun of them in an article entitled: “Mac Cult Freaks Celebrate Holy Day”?
Please, don’t send them any tattoo shots.
My story is short and sweet…
I switched to Mac (from Windows) in 1999 and never looked back!
Awwwwwwwww, c’mon! I’ve got a great 8×10 of my G5, my cat, and a nicely iced down jar of vaseline…
I first started using a Mac in 1989 whilst at College.
I was in the college library to work on my first assignement, the only computer available was a small “thing with a built in screen”. I began working on my my first submitted peice of work, and was delighted that the small strange computer was so easy to use.
i returned two days later and was perturbed that the big “cool’ PC could not read my disc and seamed more conviluted to use. I sought out the small thing with the built in screen and have been hooked on them ever since.
I unfortunately have to use a “pc” at work, and have had for the last 8 years. However i go home at night and use my beloved Mac.
Hugh
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Apple back in 1981 when I was about twelve years old. My father was a psychology professor and used computers in his classes, so we had several different models like the TRS-80, Compucolor, etc. before the Apple. The Apple II was the only one so great that my dad had to buy one for the family instead of loaning it from the University. The Apple II was amazing. For a twelve year old, it was all about games. We had dozens, like the text based adventure “The Count”, and the “Wizardy” series, and my all time favorite, the original “Castle Wolfenstein”. My dad, my brother and I would take turns playing that for hours.
Then in 1984, my dad got a Macintosh. It was weird looking, and instead of typing in commands, it had this strange desktop and folders. I didn’t like it. There weren’t many games, although one of the earliest and best was “Dark Castle” which was fun. No, I wanted to stick with the Apple II – until I discovered MacPaint. All my life I’ve loved drawing, so when I first got to play with MacPaint, I was smitten. It took awhile to get used to but eventually I’d draw in MacPaint instead of playing games for fun. A couple years later we got a new program called PixelPaint and it was even cooler. I’d draw all sorts of things and save them, edit them later, add text, and even print them on our Epson Dot Matrix printer. A few years after that I was introduced to a brand new program called Photoshop. It was a million times better than PixelPaint, and a billion times better than MacPaint. I was hooked. By this time I was in college and had already decided to become a graphic designer. The strange thing was, none of my college courses taught anything about using computers in the business except for one marketing class that lightly touched on Pagemaker. I had a commercial at instructor who owned a very prominent ad agency in town, tell me that no one in his company used computers for graphic design, and they never would (hopefully he changed his tune or I’m sure he’s out of business).
I’m now a digital media designer. I create print, web, multimedia, video, audio, and music all with my Mac. If it weren’t for the Mac, I don’t know what I’d be doing today, but I doubt it would be this. Apple has completely shaped who I am professionally and I owe everything that I am today to them. I’ve been forced at times through my career to use Windows, and it’s just not the same. When you’re doing creative work you should work in a creative environment, and that’s the Mac. Everything about it just feels warm and comfortable. If there were ever to come a day when I couldn’t have a Mac anymore, I’d leave this profession and find something that didn’t involve technology at all. Here’s hoping that never happens. Happy birthday Apple!
I first encountered apple with an Apple II LE, which taught me how to touch type (great life skill I still have). I liked the Macintosh but was swayed over to the Windows world at the release of Windows 95. After the release of Mac OS X, I bought myself a 15″ Powerbook and thought to myself “why did I switch to Windows in the first place?”
http://www.techcastuk.co.uk/?page_id=10
This site is about an on going project for my three G4 Cube systems – one of the companys most revolutionary systems to ever come out.
http://www.techcastuk.co.uk/?p=21
The above link is titled “The last ever PowerBook G4 review” and bids a final farewell to the PowerBook as it sits in the shadows of the MacBook Pro. The new daddy of all laptops!
http://www.techcastuk.co.uk/?p=20
Story about the mac mini and his thoughts after 12 months useage. Reflection on its successes and its downfalls of Apple’s entry level system.
ndelc: WOW
I have been using Macs since OS 9 and would NEVER go back.
I do give up trying to make my friends and coworkers Think Different.
Its a real shame more people don’t realize what there missing.
Y’know what I miss? “MacPuke”. It was a neat little app for the classic Mac that made a revolting barf noise whenever the Mac ejected a floppy. One time, some asshole installed MacPuke on every Mac in the college Mac lab. I’ll never forget it — the lab sounded like a bulimic convention!
LordRobin ROFLOL. That is a must have app
hey LordRobin they have it for OS X!
Link: MacPuke
I work as a freelance television camera operator in Toronto (Canada) and back at the start of the 80’s I had the privilege of working on a series called Bits and Bytes. We saw the earliest of the earliest including a very clandestine peek at the Xerox PARC desktop machine. To trash an item you selected it then turned the mouse upside down, gave it a shake and it spun off into the trash! Very cool at the time. After seeing what Apple had to offer against all the rivals back then, including Atari, Commodore, Sinclair just to name a few and of course Microsoft’s first stab at Windows, I decided to buy my first Apple and I have never looked back. Working on that series changed my way of looking at anything technical. Apple won my heart and mind in the 80’s and continues to keep me thinking different.
iMac therefore iAm
I hated computers before the Macintosh arrived. Now, as a Mac IT, I sometimes have to pinch myself, as I can’t believe I get paid to immerse myself in Apple things all day long. The coolest products, and livin’ on the tech edge, pushing the envelope with Steve at the helm! Go man!–and happy belated birthday to Steve too!
I could not bring myself to sit in front of a Windows computer all day. THAT is torture worse than anything at Abu Ghrabe. Don’t know how others do it, or WHY–in the case of self inflicted repeat purchases.