I've got tons of apple stuff. I got ibook G3 G4. two IIsis, two 7600s two 7300s. iPod G5. Titanium G4 DVi. 2 G3 B&Ws. Guts from a mac SE30 which i found in the attic. An Apple II which i'm currently getting from a lab salvage. Apple II User Guide Signed by Steve Wozniak. And I got My picture taken with him. I have an apple frisbee, Macworld 94 expo boston shirt. The New Mac Pin from 94. Original Intallation disks from the first Mac ever made. The only Disney movies i like are made by the former apple company Pixar. I plan to get a powerbook g4 aluminum to replace my iBook G4. I plan to buy the new G5 Quadcore that is coming out at the end of the month in august. I repair my own machines out of warranty. I'm constantly fiddling with my machines software and hardware to make the faster. I almost cried on the day of the intel switch. My life is the computer. All i do is sit in front of my Laptop or ride my bike while listening to my iPod.

so i am a great Apple fan.

I've collected some good apple shwag over the years. I have a case cracking tool for the 512K/plus/classic macs (cant even get em from apple anymore), I managed to scrounge up one of the "crazy ones" t-shirts and then had it framed in a shadow box. I have one of the Ghandi Think Different posters, but I've got the only 3 foot by 6 foot one I've ever seen. I still I have my OSX Public Beta packet, I've scrounged a dozen or so of the old fabric banners that apple used to offer for in shop displays, and about 300 of those red "office party" coasters they gave out. We wont mention the collection of pens, notepads, binders, coffee mugs, lunchboxes, learn and earn pins, product professional certificates, keychains, ballcaps, lanyards, and other myriad shwag that the apple reps used to give out to the dealers. Boxes of it. Boxes!

Some day, I'll sell it all to red light runner, and missing bite, and use the proceeds to buy a houseboat or put my kids through college.

The most prized posessions are my four framed certs. my desktop and portable certificates from the old days, and my two same from recent.

As far as collected machines, I'm not gonna put the list here. but I will say that there are currently 27 machines in the house, all of which are fully functional, even if they're not all used.

Yeah, I think we've established a rather large level of mac dork in this thread.

cool man but i still think that my signed Apple II User Guide is pretty bitchen

I believe we all love the mac because it is different. the look and feel, the ease of use, te reliability... all these are characteristics that make te mac special. I believe the PPC chip was another characteristic that diferentiated the mac from a world of clones... I'm not against progress and trying new things (after all innovation is also a mac trait) but I do believe that there are better options than the intel processors. It's also sad that the gap between a pc and a mac is closing... windoze in a mac? natively? that might keep a lot of newbies from even giving a shot to OS X!!!

just a tought...

Aside from AMD, which doesn't have the production power to keep up with an ever-growing Apple, what else is there? Remember, Big Blue is dead in the water.


I'm going to have to call FUD on this one. We all know Bootcamp is simply a prelude to bigger, better things.

We also have to realize that people use Windows. Now I don't have to point out the superiority of OS X against Windows; they can see for themselves.

If you truly believe in the superiority of the Apple platform, you will have nothing to fear. Besides, do you think people will spend all that extra money for a Mac and then not even give OS X a shot? Not going to happen, as you have to manually install Windows and are forced into OSX until then.

Why such certainty that "Big Blue is dead in the water"?

yeah shadow, please elaborate on big blue. I hear you about bootcamp, mac will become stronger and bigger in the future (at least I hope so) but there'll also be the dumb who prefer tocontinue using windozo on their pretty macs instead of learning the weird (to them) osx. lets also hope apple doesn't sell out (the first sign being, please correct me if im wrong, they dropped the firewire on the new ipods, including the video, giving us a way slower uploads in a more expensive ipod), and they start shipping crappy products.

I love mac and i wanna keep loving it!

edit: don't even ask ibookdude about crappy products! lol

Sure. Only if you can elaborate how Big Blue, with its current production plan can succeed with Apple, particularly in the laptop market. Once you do that, I'll explain why Big Blue, for Apple, is dead in the water. No speculation please.


Several points on this. First, if this unlikely scenario were to come to pass, it would only help Apple sales. Since said retard's mentality is obviously predisposed toward Windows, no matter what Microsoft gains a sale. Why not throw in an Apple sale with it? Second, people are going to use Windows; more importantly, despite the drivel from our own front, there are actually people who like Windows. Let them use it. Who cares? If I tried to educate every Windows user that came my way I would never have peace.


With Steve Jobs and his current development team, it will be a cold day in hell before Apple "sells out". Apple is maneuvering to retake significant market share. In order to do so, it had to change. These changes will make Apple a much better company. Second, Apple is NOT dropping firewire; this is purely FUD. Case in point is the new MacBook Pro 17", which includes both a 400 and 800 port. You can still get firewire on your iPod, except it's no longer stock. Remember, most people who use the iPod do NOT have a Mac and most consumer lines sadly don't carry Firewire.

Cheers!

most enlightening, thanks shadow!

No problem.