Excuse me for posting in this slightly dusted thread. My family used Apple computers exclusively for decades. It all begun in the late 1970s when my father saved his brothers' company a considerable amount of cash by programming his own accountancy software on an Apple ][ instead of chosing one of the available electro-mechanic solutions they also considered. Five years later he founded his own company that planned and installed mixed heating systems which use solar energy. The company also sold controller hardware for these heating systems, their software was written exclusively on Apples (there weren't any x86 boxes in the entire company). The controller boxes had a dial-up connection that allowed my father to support his customers from home via analog modem by using a console with ASCI graphics of the customers' heating system.
Well, his sons weren't big IT heads as big as he, but still we've got much of the old hardware the company couldn't use and got used to the computer thing early... After Doom finally was ported to Mac OS, we played it over AppleTalk 😀 I played lots of games on my Macs and if one that I wanted wasn't available in town, I ordered it from Germany (online, again rather early I think). Nowadays I don't game anymore, the occasional Broodwar / Unreal Tournament LAN aside. But I do all the other stuff normal people do on my Macs. During my studies I wasn't confronted with Windows-only software so far, although a statistics program I have to use (SPSS) that in my opinion already is mediocre in its Windows compatible form is somewhat worse and not available in German in its Mac incarnation. My brother recently had to install the MS Office suite because of his university and wasn't very happy about it 😉
Last year our slightly technophobic mother gave in and so far she's happy with iPhoto, e-mailing and the color laserprinter that she bought at the same time 😀 Oh and the day before yesterday I finished my first DVD project with the iApps, you live and learn 😉
Powermac G3 450 Mhz
Powermac G4 800 Mhz
iBook G4 900 Mhz
iBook G4 1,33 Ghz
iBook G4 1,33 Ghz
It's not the newest hardware, but the Mac-ification of this household is now complete! 😉
