| Hooked On MacsJay PatelI am a young Mac user. The first time I saw a Quadra,
when my uncle brought it home, I thought, "Wow." I had never
seen a Mac or even heard of them. This was back in 1993. I
was only 8 years old, and I loved it. I liked the plain
simple System 7.1 and the games I could play (Prince of
Persia, Factory, Quagmire, etc.). I played on it all day and
really enjoyed using the software for my homework. As time passed and technology grew, my lovely Quadra
650 began to feel slower and slower. I really tried to
upgrade it, but it took time to load programmes. My hard
drive kept on filling up. I rang up all the Apple companies
in London, and they could not help. The lack of a CD-ROM
drive made it even worse -- and when I tried to get a CD-ROM
drive, the Apple reseller said that they don't make them any
more. My parents wanted to buy a PC, and they did. In 1998 the
Quadra was packed up and shut away. My parents started using
a PCs. we had a Pentium-II 266 MHz with 64 MB of memory, a
6.4 GB hard drive, and many more features that the Quadra
never had. I fell for Windows high performance. But at the end of
1998, we found a company that would exchange our Quadra for
a newer Mac. At last I was back on line with Macs again. We
now had an 8200/120 MHz. I
know it was not as fast as our PC, but at least it was
faster than the 33 MHz Quadra! When I switched it on, it really amazed me. The Mac OS
had come a long ways since System 7.1. I had Mac OS 8.5,
which really worked well, buy I could not get rid of Windows
forever. In school we used Windows PCs, so I had to buy an
emulator so that my PC and Mac could read my schoolwork. When the 8200/120 began to seem slow, I upgraded the hard
drive. I tried to buy a G3 upgrade card, but it was too
expensive (£260 for a 266 MHz CPU). So in October 1999
I exchange the 8200/120 for a Mac
Performa 5500/225 MHz. I paid £211.25 in
exchange. The Performa is so cool. I fell in love with the built in
monitor and the way it saves space. It uses Mac OS 8.6 with
32 MB of RAM. It is fast, and I really aim now fully using
Macs and sometimes Windows. Well what can I say. I am 15, and some might say I don't
have much experience with Macs, but they are wrong. I have
used Macs and have read a lot of books on Macs. What can I
say Steve Jobs -- you have got me hooked. My First Macintosh- Macs get the job done, Todd H. Cheong,
4/11/2000
- Complete PC nut goes Mac, Fred Forney,
3/29/2000
- The compelling Mac, Sean C. Cunningham,
3/21/2000
- Under my skin, Katherine (BondiBlue2),
3/14/2000
- A rescued Fat Mac, Jonathan Wise,
3/6/2000
- A boy and his Mac, Glenn Dawes,
3/1/2000
- Absolutely essential, Hans
Echterbecker, 2/22/2000
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