My shiny new computer

[JasonJT]

Greetings all.

Got my pay rise along with my back payment today. Decided to treat myself to a shiny new Macbook Pro. Here is my wife holding it. Now I have no excuse for not posting any more shaving reviews! (Before I was doing my reviews on my phone which was a bit awkward).

Jason.

 

[emwolf]

I still have the sales flyer for my first home computer I bought in 1992. I spent $2000 for a 486 DX2 50 Mhz, with CDRom, 3.5 and 5.25 floppies, a 170mb hard drive, 4 mb of ram and a 2400 baud modem, plus speakers and a big, color, 14 inch monitor.

 

[shave/brush]

Always nice to get a new computer. Enjoy it.!

 

[steveclarkus]

Greetings all.

Got my pay rise along with my back payment today. Decided to treat myself to a shiny new Macbook Pro. Here is my wife holding it. Now I have no excuse for not posting any more shaving reviews! (Before I was doing my reviews on my phone which was a bit awkward).


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Jason.

I just got my first MacBook a few weeks ago after using Microsoft for 35 years. The transition is driving me nuts but I am beginning to love it. Congratulations!

 

[Lightcs1776]

I love my Macbook Pro. It is a couple years old and more than capable for anything I need to run. I ran Linux on Intel based chips until the Macbook, which also runs Intel, though your Macbook pro is likely M1, unless they have moved to M2 chips. I have read great things about both processors. Congrats on the new system.

 

[JCarr]

Enjoy the new rig! Congratulations!

 

[APBinNCA]

Hey, if you learn to use the gallery feature you can do the following: take picture with phone, wait till upload to icloud, check Photos on Macbook, open photo and export to jpeg. On B&B, gallery/add media, upload your photo, copy the B&B code to clipboard, type your post and paste the code for the photo in. Sounds more complicated than it actually is! Enjoy your new toy tool.

 

[FarmerTan]

You are a blessed man friend @JasonJT !

A shiny new computer and a lovely helpmeet of a wife! Enjoy it, you deserve it my friend.

 

[njpaddy]

Congrats. Enjoy your new Macbook. My wife and I have owned home desktops and laptops since early '93. I always enjoyed buying or building a new computer, and especially the challenge of deciding what to buy.

 

[njpaddy]

I still have the sales flyer for my first home computer I bought in 1992.

I still have the 1992 Gateway Christmas catalog for our first PC. It's buried somewhere in the boxes and boxes of 30 years of computer components and software in our basement.

 

[FarmerTan]

I still have the 1992 Gateway Christmas catalog for our first PC. It's buried somewhere in the boxes and boxes of 30 years of computer components and software in our basement.

Oh my! I had TOTALLY forgotten about Gateway!

It was our first type here at home, and we just finally outgrew it after probably 10 years. My wife's folks were teachers, and had an old OLD Apple from probably the late 70's when were dating for the whole week before we got married. I used to play "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego" on it. It had green writing on the screen, lol. 35 years ago! And it was old then!

 

[Eric_75]

Enjoy, Jason!

 

[njpaddy]

Oh my! I had TOTALLY forgotten about Gateway!

It was our first type here at home, and we just finally outgrew it after probably 10 years.

10 years? More than double than our 1992, $1700 basic Gateway lasted. Beside the cow-colored boxes, and a number pad on both ends of the keyboard, I loved that Gateway because it had so many problems, it taught me more about computers that I would have ever learned on my own.

 

[Lightcs1776]

10 years? More than double than our 1992, $1700 basic Gateway lasted. Beside the cow-colored boxes, and a number pad on both ends of the keyboard, I loved that Gateway because it had so many problems, it taught me more about computers that I would have ever learned on my own.

Owned a gateway years ago. It may have been the last Windows OS I used at home. If memory recalls, I went to Linux afterwards. I used to build my systems, but it doesn't seem worth it these days. I have to say, Mac has been very solid.

 

[luvmysuper]

I don't know.
I'm aware of one case when all humankind was forever adversely affected when a man was given an Apple by his spouse!

Congrats on the new gadget. I love gadgets!

 

[FarmerTan]

I don't know.
I'm aware of one case when all humankind was forever adversely affected when a man was given an Apple by his spouse!

Congrats on the new gadget. I love gadgets!

I had to laugh, even if it's not a funny time in our history!

 

[FarmerTan]

10 years? More than double than our 1992, $1700 basic Gateway lasted. Beside the cow-colored boxes, and a number pad on both ends of the keyboard, I loved that Gateway because it had so many problems, it taught me more about computers that I would have ever learned on my own.

I must say, ours may have been what convinced my wife to be a programmer! And to this day she keeps our gadgets all working for much longer than we have any right to expect.

 

[Toothpick]

Congrats! My first Mac was a 2011 Mac Mini. Mom uses it now, almost 12 years later still going. I got the new Macbook Air M2 a few months ago. I don’t use it as much as I thought I would but I got it when I need it.

 

[JCurwen]

Jason, congrats on your new MacBook . It should serve you well. And thank you to those who took us all down memory lane, Gateway, IBM PCs etc… My first PC was a Macintosh SE

 

[JCurwen]

I appreciate being able to work across Windows, Linux, and the Mac OS. (All of which have changed over time)