My Computer History (1996-2017) 

The first computer I ever used was an old iMac G3 in 2007. I was at my grandmas house and I went into her office and started questioning the “dusty blue pillow” sitting on her desk unused for many years. She let me turn it on and I was fascinated with the thing and I couldn’t part with it. She let me have it since she had a newer computer that she was using and I still have that old iMac today and still love it as much as I did the first time I saw it.

Here's my computer history: * The very first computer I ever used was a Compudyne with a 75 MHz Pentium, 8 MB of RAM (later upgraded to 40), and an 850 MB hard drive (which died, so we replaced it with a 2 GB one). I still own it, and it still works. That second hard drive hasn't died yet. * At my elementary school, it was all Macs, all the time. When I started Kindergarten, it was PowerMacintosh 5200's, then later iMac G3's. There were even some Apple IIe's in the Kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. * The second computer in my house was an HP Pavilion 6545C. It had a Celeron and I think 64 MB of RAM. It was a bit of a piece of garbage, but I still have good memories of it. * The third was a Compaq Presario, can't remember the exact model, but it also had a Celeron. It was even more of a piece of garbage than the HP. * For Christmas of 2008, my parents bought me an HP Pavilion a6600f. It was a lot better than the Compaq, and it even ran Vista very well. I upgraded to 7 and eventually 8, but then the onboard graphics died, and I couldn't use it even with an external graphics card. I took it to a shop where they re-soldered the chip, but that only lasted so long. * The rest are kind of boring: a Samsung laptop (which still technically works, but the CPU runs hot, so I never use it), and my 2017 custom-built.

Fascinating video, nicely done. Your excitement of using computers from your earliest years really comes through. Nice clarity of photos too. Thanks for sharing it. ~ Vincent, Computer History Archives Project.

Who else burst it out laughing when he said and we moved to the PC with windows millennium?

The first computer I've ever used was an old Windows 95 computer. Shortly after I explored it, we got a newer Windows XP computer and I used it for a long time and it grew on me. I learned how to use PowerPoint on this thing and I've learned so much more about computers. Later, for birthday, I got a custom build Windows 8 computer. It was later upgraded to Windows 8.1 and that's when I started video editing and playing video games. I used to just make videos inspired by stuff I saw on RU-vid, but I never uploaded it because I didn't have an account. I even made a Computer Showdown ripoff at that time. I still have these videos on my second hard drive. Later, I upgraded it to Windows 10 and later, a graphics card was installed on it. I still use that machine to this day and even though the specs are slowly becoming more outdated, I can use this thing for all my needs and it doesn't feel slow to me. That's my computer story.

your story is exactly the same as mine... up until the point where you kept changing your laptops haha, after our family finished experimenting with windows and going back to mac, I got the 2008 macbook pro, and just recently upgraded to the 2015 model last year. Great video, enjoyed going back down memory lane.

Exploring the OS, clicking on icons... Just like what I did for years just because I found everything so exciting whenever there was a new OS running on the computer in front of me and pretty much what other people should do as well! Nice little story there, I really like that you actually tried all the platforms yourself instead of staying with either macOS, Windows or GNU/Linux permanently, My story goes a little longer, my dad picked up a Commodore64 and a Plus4 back when I was like 2 years old so we could play some games together. That's how I got introduced to games like River Raid, Donkey Kong, Snoopy but also to computers in general. Later on we traded those two for a NES while my dad on his own got a complete 286 system with a black and white display from his cousin to do his work. That's also when we met the Internet for the first time, back in the days of Windows3.11 with a slow ass 28 or so bauds modem. From there it went pretty straight forward, new computers with Win95 where I got a x86 on my own with Win3.11 on it, after that Win98 and 98SE. Unfortunately my dad passed away around 2000, so I receive his old computer that we had to sell somewhat later tho. So I got some more aged computers afterwards until we had the chance to get a office PC with a Celeron D and WinXP on it from somewhere, totally loved that thing until the internal GPU chip died. Again another PC with Vista aaaaaaaaaaaaand it sucked so damn hard, there was just no way to get XP back on this thing as it even refused to install anything else at first. I somehow found a program called Wubi then that installs Ubuntu GNU/Linux inside a container on the NTFS drive while simply adding a MBR entry to boot from this thing and so I got introduced to GNU/Linux for real after using it for years as a live system. Then Win7 came around, I have been fine with Linux tho so I kept it for the majority of things. Since I wanted to play certain games with friends though that didn't work with Wine or native under Linux yet, I had to resize and make a partition for Win7 tho. It was fine but the memories of Vista were still to fresh. So until a few months ago I pretty much went Linux only, switched between Ubuntu, Debian and Mint every now and then so I have Mint17.3 running on this computer by now but the functionality of Win10 to play certain XBOX One games directly had my attention which is pretty much why I'm running dualboot now. Can't blame either system, both run great and for the sake of fun, running macOS inside a virtual machine is quite fun too. Too bad one of my mainboard's SATA ports broke tho (don't ask) otherwise I'd probably spend money on another SSD just to install macOS on this one.

1985-1996, my first ever computer, an Amstrad CPC 464 with colour monitor, which Mum got me for my 11th birthday. 1996-2002, an Acorn Electron from a second hand shop. BBC BASIC was awesome on it. 2002-2003, an Acorn Archimedes A3010 off eBay. My first ever computer running a GUI with a mouse. 2003-2006, my first ever PC, a Celeron 400A refurb with 98se. Also my first ever internet connection, initially on an Intel 536EP PCI modem. 2006-2007, my first ever full PC build, based on an Athlon XP 2000+ using parts from a refurb place I was working for, running Windows XP. Was on broadband by this point. 2007-2010, upgraded to an Athlon 64 4000+ Socket 939 nForce 3 build. Was Dual booting between XP and Windows 7 Professional from around 2010. 2010-2015, moved on to an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Socket 939 nForce 3 Ultra build. Rather unstable, found out much later it was due to a flaky PSU. Had to finally move on from using CRTs to an IPS flat panel in 2014 due to lack of local availability of affordable 17" flat screen CRTs. Also, first ever Smartphone, a Nokia Lumia 820, in 2013. First ever tablet in 2014, a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4. Both with sweet looking AMOLED displays. 2015-2016, built up over time a brand new 4790K/dual 960 SLI build, initially running Windows 8.1. Oddly enough, found myself putting together a retro XP/8.1 build in parallel from January 2016 onwards, based around an E8400 and a 750 Ti. It was using a brand new Gigabyte motherboard I originally brought back in 2008 for a potential Intel based build that was subsequently aborted due to lack of funds. They're now both running with SanDisk X400 SSDs and Western Digital Blacks, with proper EVGA SuperNova G2 PSUs. 2017, started a retro 98se build based around a Pentium III 800EB, while repurposing my first ever PC's case. Still got my Amstrad hooked up to my Samsung TV.

3:40 omg I remembered when we had that! It was sad when the mobo was fried. I used to turn the sub woofer up all the way and I could feel the air on my feet oh the days

Thank you for uploading it on my birthday i just noticed😂😂

And now ur here, making really nice videos

Amazing video, although I just now saw it in my recommended list. Below is my long history with computers... read if you like long-winded responses. ;-) I received my first computer around the age or 3 or 4 (between 2003 and 2005) when I received a Gateway 2000 desktop. That computer was, I believe, a 486-based system from around 1993 or 1994 running Windows 3.11. It was old enough that Gateway was still Gateway 2000. I can remember using MS Paint for hours upon hours on that thing and playing solitaire with my father. Unfortunately, that Gateway 2000 machine "died." I must have accidentally pressed a button and sent it back into MS-DOS, and me nor my father could return it back to Windows. (My father never used a computer. Now I know it would've been as simple as entering "win" command.) The Gateway 2000 didn't have capability for internet as it didn't have a modem. Then at our school they had machines running Windows 98... which was around 2005 or 2006. The next year, when I entered first grade, the school upgraded to brand new Windows XP machines. I can recall just the excitement that came over me... those Windows XP machines blew my mind. They had LCD flat-panel displays when everyone still had CRT monitors. I can remember working on my first project with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 - I had to create a PowerPoint about the Liberty Bell. I also vividly remember being shocked at the internet and just looking at different websites. Just being blown away by being able to access information about anything, even stuff that was too new for my grandparent's 1961 encyclopedia set that I would always look through. In about second grade I persuaded my parents to buy a computer as a Christmas present. It was Christmas 2006 and the computer was a HP Pavilion running Windows Vista. I don't really remember the specs except it had an AMD Athlon 64 processor. My dad bought a joystick and steering wheel for playing games, but I remember that computer being a little too slow to run many of the games he wanted to run. From what I can remember, Windows Vista wasn't as bad as people made it out to be - but we did get BSoD screens all the time in comparison to XP, 7 or 10. Sometime in 2007 we got dial-up internet through the telephone company (we lived in the middle of nowhere) and I got to view websites and play games at home. I created my first website on Geocities. We kept that computer going (eventually replacing the hard drive when it failed) until our house burned down in October 2010. The day after our house burned down a neighbor surprised me with an Acer AspireOne netbook. The relatives we were staying with didn't have internet, so I couldn't use the internet. But that netbook was my first experience with Windows 7 (it ran Windows 7 Starter.) I was given a fully-featured Windows 7 desktop in June 2011 for my birthday. I used that computer to design more websites... this time from scratch in HTML/CSS. In October 2014 I interned at my local newspaper office. Got to experience Mac OS X for the first time, as I used a 2005 MacMini with the PowerPC G4 processor. When the hard drive failed on the Windows 7 desktop I received for my birthday in 2011, I persuaded my parents to switch to Mac (this was during the Windows 8 fiasco - we used Win8 at school and I hated it.) We went to the Apple Store and bought the $500 late 2014 MacMini with the 1.4GHz Intel Core i5, 4GB memory and 500GB hard drive. I bought my first true laptop the next year - a early 2014 MacBook Air. In summer 2016 I would switch to a ThinkPad T420 as the MacMini slowed way down and I liked Windows 10. Fast forward to now... I have a ThinkPad W541 that I use as my personal daily driver. At work and school I almost exclusively use iMacs. I have an iPad and finally switched from Android to iPhone just last month. I plan on eventually replacing my current W541 with an iMac. As for all of the computers I've amassed over the years... almost all of them I still have. I still have the Windows 7 desktop (now runs Linux Mint), late 2014 MacMini (in storage - needs macOS reinstalled), early 2014 MacBook Air (my dad's daily driver... the first computer he's used extensively as he never understood Windows.) I also have the T420 but it died, so it just sits there. I have some additional computers in my collection that I received from others. The Acer AspireOne is lost and has not been located since we moved to our current location two years ago. I also have kept all of my cell phones - I have a box that acts like a cell phone sarcophagus. TL/DR (much needed): 2003-2005 (3-5 years old): ~1994 Gateway 2000 486-based machine with Windows 3.11 December 2006 - October 2010 (7-11 years old): HP Pavilion with AMD Athlon 64 and Windows Vista October 2010 - ??? (11 years old-???): Acer AspireOne netbook with Windows 7 Starter (now lost - possibly RIP) June 2011 - present (12 years old-???): Asus Essentio desktop with Windows 7 (now runs Linux Mint) November 2014 - present (15 years old-???): Late 2014 MacMini (needs macOS reinstalled) August 2015 - present (16 years old-???): Early 2014 MacBook Air (now my dad's daily driver) June 2016 - March 2018 (17 years old - 18 years old): ThinkPad T420 (RIP) June 2018 - November 2018 (19 years old): ThinkPad T450 (had defects... returned to seller under warranty) November 2018 - present (19 years old-???): ThinkPad W541 (present daily driver, using it to type this) March 2019 - present: 6th-generation iPad 9.7" (used a lot)

1:02 Wow those badass headphones!

2010-today My notebook ;)

Bravo, Ken!! You did very well!! Here is my computer history: 2007/2008 - 2011 Unknown Win XP PC with Pentium 4 (I don't remember the generation of it) with 128 MB RAM(!!!) 2011 - 2014 HP Pavilion dv9000 Series (dv9730ev)with Win Vista (it rarely had a problem), then upgraded to Win 7 2013 - today Dell OptiPlex GX 270 SFF (1024 MB RAM) with Win 7 Starter & Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Installation Sensation) 2015 - today Toshiba Satellite C50-A-19T with Win 8.1, upgraded to 10 Hope you enjoy!!

The first computer I use was a common household computer that ran Windows 95. I then use Windows 98 on a second common household computer from Dell. We then got a Gateway laptop running Windows XP for my family to use in ~2005. In 2007, we got an HP computer running Windows Vista. Back then I became interested in Windows. In 2007, we owned three iPods: a first generation shuffle, a second generation shuffle, and a second generation nano. I became fascinated by the technology and simplicity of using an iPod, and I happen to use the nano the most. The summer of 2008 was a major turning point in my interest of computer technology. Not only I founded this channel by watching these old Computer Showdown videos, but also I was looking at Apple's website and learned about the Mac products. I became fascinated by the minimalistic design of these products and the innovative features across the hardware/software. That was when I wanted to switch to Apple, so in March 2009, I got my first personal computer - the Mac mini early 2009. It was great to start with something affordable. The concept of this computer is to bring your own desktop, keyboard, and mouse, which I did. I later moved to using a Magic Trackpad. Ever since around October 2008, I still wanted a MacBook, so on May 2012, I got a Mid-2011 11" MacBook Air. I became fascinated with the portability/durability of this machine thanks to its design and use of flash storage. I've been wanting an smartphone for so long, so after I learned the amazing features of the Galaxy S4, I jumped on the Android platform on March 2014 and used an S4. Realizing that the Apple ecosystem works the best for me, I switched to an iPhone for the first time on June 2015. This phone, which is a 6, is my current one. After 3.5 years of use, I realize my computer was getting rather long in the tooth, so I switched to an Early 2015 MacBook Pro 13-inch on December 2015, which is my computer I'm using today! I've been wanting an Apple Watch ever since they were first released into the market. I got a Series 1 model on December 2016. This brings me to what I'm using today - a MacBook Pro 13-inch, an iPhone 6, and a 42mm Apple Watch. Happy 33rd anniversary Mac!

I graduated high school in 1996, but before then my first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 where I learned to program in Basic. A few laters, I got a PC with DOS and Windows 3.11 and having been using Windows ever since. I've had an eMachine, HP and Dell PCs.

It started with me working with my dad’s windows 98 computer. When he decided to upgrade, he gave me the old machine. He used to be the System Administrator, (up until he couldn’t be anymore at that point I took over that role), but mid time with that computer, around 2004, we made the jump to Windows XP. In 2006 (I think?) I got a Toshiba Satellite laptop. In 2011, I got my first Mac. Not a good reintroduction. (My older brother used to get Mac computers until they repeatedly started failing. Power Macs.) The Mac I Got was a 2011 Mac Book Pro. It had a range of issues from hard drive failures to the fan dying. Then once those were repaired, in 2014 (ish?) I got a Mac mini and eventually gave my old MacBook to a school. In 2015 I got an HP Pavilion laptop (which died horribly the following year), and in 2016 got a MacBook Pro that works just fine. In my birthday of 2017, my parents and I bought the components needed to make a computer and a week and a half later it’s setup. Hopefully this wasn’t too long.

Thanks to my dads love for computers, Ive used them for along as I remember. In the 90's we had a new at the time Performa in the livingroom. I also had a 486 with Windows 3.1 in my room, I first went online with windows 98 when we upgraded to DSL and my dad added networking through the whole house for everyone. (before WiFi)> My Dad contentiously upgraded my hardware with second hand stuff he had. In 2003 I had a Dell Optiplex with A Pentium III i think and Windows ME, it got quickly replaced with a ugly Compaq that had Windows XP and then in 2007 a Dell Precision 360 with my first Pentium 4 and a dedicated gpu I added for gaming. Computers I got afterwards are mine i bought or built. I always had Macs to go with my Windows machines, but they were always old thrift store finds until I bought a new Mac Mini 2015. I now have a HP Pavilion with Core i7 as my gaming PC and a 2011 iMac as my Daily and a 2017 Macbook Air for portable computing.

My PC I bought from my own money was a Dell Dimension E520, with a E6xxx Core 2 Duo and 2 GB ram. Also, the previous owner stuck a Radeon X1300/X1550 series card in it. Sadly it was full of bugs when upgraded to Windows 10, because my mind was blown away by how fast an old pc can start up without the help of a SSD.

I got my first computer in 2004, it was an IBM Aptiva with Windows 95. i learnt the basics of computing with this computer, I remember how my dad taught me how to use the mouse and keyboard. Two years later in 2006, we got an Acer with Windows ME, around this time we also got our first internet service, an amazing 512kbps! I remember how I loved to get on Wikipedia and just read articles... My dad and I tried to install Windows XP on that computer but it just couldn't handle it... In 2009 we got an Acer Aspire laptop with Windows Vista, with this computer we also got an upgraded internet service with wireless and 1mbps speed. With this a recent computer and fast internet speed I could finally access that "RU-vid" thing that I had heard about. I fell in love with it. I created my account and searched for computer videos, I subscribed to dannoct1 and to you back when your channel was called Hildron101010. I don't remember what happened to that computer but, two years later I got an Acer Netbook. It was my first personal computer. This was the first time I could thinker and explore a computer. I stopped using the Netbook in 2012 when the hard drive died. After the netbook died I stayed away from computers for a while, until 1/6/2014 when I got the computer I'm using right now. My dad built it for me, it had 2GB of RAM and a pirated copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. The computer stayed like this for a while until 2015, when I bought a legit copy of Windows 10. Last year I also expanded the RAM to 6GB. As long as the hard drive doesn't die, I don't have any plans of upgrading the computer right now. I may build a computer whenever I finish college and get a job.

I used a emachine, running Windows XP, 1GB of RAM, Intel Pentium 4, and a OLD Nvidia graphics cards in 2007, then we upgraded to Vista (it was horrible), and now, we use Windows 10 (most of my family), and macOS (my brother​). I was at the age of 4 when I used a computer! We still own a Power Mac G4 and G5, a old Toshiba (it sorta works), and a crappy Acer desktop. My family is investing in buying​ us Macs! I can't​ believe I went from 1GB of RAM, to 8GBs of RAM! Thank for making this video, and I relate so much from this video!

would you recommend buying the 2013 MacBook Pro w/ the same specs yours has, or buying a newer model

3:20 I remember back in 2007 I was 5 years old and I wanted a Vista PC too...all because of the new interface and the Bubbles screensaver

November 2004 - Windows XP, Dell computer but forgot the model exactly. May 2011 - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.97GHz w/ 2GB RAM with Windows 7 Ultimate. Man, I loved to blast away with Purble Place and Plants VS Zombies. Yes, is upgradable to Windows 10 with compatibility mode drivers and I still have it today. August 2018 - An Asus Vivobook X441MA that used to run Windows 10 v1709, but I upgraded it to 1809 because the revised release (without the user file delete bug) was already out. Currently running 20H2 insider preview July 2019 - An HP 430 (not the ProBook, just the HP 430) that ran Windows XP but I cleaned the HDD and installed Windows 7 because it was a shared computer (both work and home) that had a virus. It keeps overheating even on a flat surface, so it needs a little bit of elevation for the fan to breathe.

I still have my old 2009 MacBook (I bought it on eBay in late 2013) with the GeForce 9400M. I don't use it much anymore as I have my desktop and a Lenovo laptop running Linux Mint. I didn't get the graphical bugs but the laptop does get warm, and since it's the plastic version, the case plastic is chipping off

My family has a PC history and I personally have one of my own~ *Family:* 1999 - My family received our first PC as a hand-down from our relatives: a Windows 98 Packard Bell Multimedia 820 from 1998 (300MHz Cyrix M-II CPU, 128MB RAM, 20GB hard drive, and SiS 5597 2MB video card) ||| Retired in 2002 and scrapped in 2010 after finding the HDD failed 2003 - My family received a second hand-down PC from the same relatives: a Windows XP Dell Dimension 4500 from 2002 (Pentium 4 CPU, 2GB RAM, and 120GB hard drive) ||| HDD failed in 2009 and was scrapped 2009 - My family received our first new PC, an HP Compaq dx2400 from 2007, normally shipping with Windows Vista but we opted for a downgrade to XP (Pentium E5200 CPU, 1GB RAM, 320GB hard drive) ||| Hard drive failed in 2014 but I resurrected with an SSD in 2017 ---- 2014 - My family bought their current computer, an HP Pavillion 500-c60 from 2013 (AMD A6-5200 CPU, 8GB RAM, and 1TB hard drive) ||| Hard drive failed in 2017 but I resurrected by donating my Compaq 110c's drive *My PCs* 2010 - I picked up my first PC for $10 from a military thrift store (lol), a Compaq Presario 1200 from 1999 (AMD K6-2 processor) with the previous user having upgraded most everything; from Win98SE to Win2000, replaced the stock CD drive with a DVD drive, replaced the 1GB HDD with a 6GB HDD, and the 64MB RAM with 128MB RAM. It's likely only with these upgrades that the PC even loaded webpages properly in the the latest release of Firefox as of 2010. ||| HDD failed a month into my use 2011 - I picked up a Windows 7 Compaq Mini 110c-1105DX from 2009 (Atom N270 CPU, 2GB RAM, and 250GB hard drive) ||| retired in 2013, charger port failed in 2017 and HDD was donated to my parents' HP Pavillion 500-c60 2013 - Upon entering college, I decided I wanted a beefier computer, so I picked up a Windows 8 HP Envy DV7-7250US from 2012. Horribly-disappointing gaming performance with the Intel HD Graphics 4000, but the i7 is still holding up strong as ever to this day. (Core i7-3630QM, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD) 2013 - Right after getting the DV7, I (foolishly) picked up some gimmicky garbage for a "light" PC that ironically weighed twice as much as a Macbook Air; a Windows 8 HP Envy X2 11-g010nr from 2012 (Atom Z2760, 2GB RAM, 64GB SSD) ||| Crippled from a fall as a crack in the screen destroyed touch functionality, and the 64GB onboard storage is running out of write cycles ----- 2017 - Early in the year I built my very first PC with the intention of high-end gaming, and packed the build's components into a Silverstone Sugo SG-13 Mini-ITX case (Core i5-6400, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, and 4GB MSi Radeon RX 480), running Windows 10 2018 - As Windows as an OS had died a miserable death in my eyes between Windows 8 and Windows 10, I'm moving my laptop computing to MacOS in the future. Later down the road I'll buy newer Macs, but the first I'm about to buy is a late-2009/mid-2010 A1342 Macbook (White polycarbonate unibody) (Core 2 Duo P8600 CPU, 4GB RAM, and 250GB HDD) Too-Long;Didn't-Read? Okay~ Boiled down to 2018, currently in use are an HP-Compaq dx2400, an HP Pavillion 500-c60, an HP Envy DV7-7250US, an HP Envy X2 11-g010nr, and my Silverstone SG-13 custom build with an A1342 Macbook on the way. HP, outside of my Envy DV7, has been quite garbage honestly, as has Windows as an OS with 8 and 10; Aside from my gaming PC being Windows 10 I'm abandoning Windows in my laptop computing and going Mac for the forseeable future.

i remember system 7 ... it was soooo thrilling to have greyscale icons! lots of cool features

Only owned one Modern Mac. Hated it, but my collection of pre 2009's are a joy to work with

My first memory of seeing a computer was the spinning hourglass of Windows 9X (probably 98). First computer I know I used was an eMachine with Windows XP. Next computer I used was a Dell Dimension 2400 with Windows XP, and my dad installed Ubuntu (9.10?) and later upgraded it to Ubuntu 10.04. After that, we replaced it with a Dell Inspiron One 2020 running Windows 8. My first laptop was an old Compaq Presario with Windows 98SE. My current computer is a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro.

It was nice seeing your PC history, here's mine. 2009-2012 HP used Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM. Remember seeing Windows 7 for the first time, came with XP. My dad bought it from work. Later upgraded w/ 1GB graphics card (although it was slow). 2012-2015 New Samsung laptop RV511 with 4GB of RAM, Some Pentium, equvivalent to an i3, Windows 7, 8 and 10 and 512MB graphics card. 2014-today New Samsung laptop (again) RF511 with 6GB of ram, i7 and an 1GB graphics card. I use it for media comsuption and as an media server. 2016-today Custom PC with an i5, 16GB of RAM and an GTX1060 6GB. I use it for gaming and video editing.

Great video. Original subject

I use to use Laptops ALL THE TIME but ever since the iPad mini 4 came out Iv used it as my main computer and still do alongside my new iPad mini 5. I mainly watch RU-vid videos, edit video here and there and play games. The iPad mini 4 is still a very fast computer. To be honest Im afraid to update it to iPadOS because its starting to show its age and I love my mini 4. Screen looks stunning and the iPad itself still looks awesome! Thank you for the video, watching this made me want to share a small bit of my computer history 🙂

I won't got to too much detail about my computers in the past. In 2006 I switched to Mac, thanks to a Power Mac G4 MDD (the dual 1.25 GHz model). I sold it in 2007 and got a Late 2006 Mac mini for the same price, which broke down in 2011. At that point, I decided to get a new computer (my second ever in my life - the first was a PC in 1999 I got from my parents), and went for an Early 2011 13" MacBook Pro, which I still have. I upgraded the RAM to 8GB, threw in a 256GB SSD and replaced the SuperDrive with a 1TB HDD and that's how I use this thing. I'll maybe replace it next year. Maybe.

I miss Windows XP. It was my second favourite Windows OS, after 98...

This is Nikola Opric talking/posting from his father's RU-vid account, here is the history of computers he uses/used (almost) everyday until he decided to ask his parents to buy a new computer because he knows that it is too outdated so that he stops using his (now old) computer: 2005-2010: my first PC, purchased from a small electronics shop that was turned into a small animals market some time later (and is still like that today), specs: AMD Athlon (i don't know which exact model number, but i think it was from early 2000's), Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT (Winfast version) (The PC did not originally contain a graphics card). 2010-2017: AMD Athlon X2 4450e (Dual-Cores, Four-Threads), Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT (Winfast version) (Once again, the PC did not originally contain a graphics card), switched to Nvidia GeForce 210 (MSI version) (since the previous graphics card broke), sold that graphics card to my father's brother/my uncle, switched to AMD Radeon 5450 (ASUS version) (Fun fact: I still used this PC when this video was published at the time). 2017-202?: AMD Athlon X4 845 (Four-Cores, Four-Threads), AMD Radeon R7 250 (ASUS version) (Originally), switched to AMD Radeon RX 550 (MSI version). Thanks for reading my comment. Will be updated later.

My introduction to computers is very similar to yours. My first computer was a Macintosh Performa 6200CD released in summer 1995. Had that computer for several years, started with System 7.5.1 Pro all the way up to Mac OS 9. Had a couple PCs from 2000 until around 2006, when I got started using a iMac G5 in my graphic design class in high school. Looking back, I still prefer the Mac for most things, and part of that is because of my first experiences with Macs back in the 90s.

I remember playing marble blast ultra on a iMac g3 I believe it was and I enjoyed it so much

i really enjoy watching your videos

what about that ubuntu pc?

My iPod touch 4th generation has music on it as well. And it also never skipped

My first computer was when I was about 6 years old and I broke all the keys on it!! Now I have an HP 15 and I love it. I have had Windows my entire life

1998 - Too far back to remember. Probably I have to guess an Pentium 3 with 128MB of RAM. It ran windows 98. 2004 - Intel Pentium 4 machine from Dell. 2007 - Upgraded to a dell SFF PC with a core 2 duo 2011 - I got a laptop for personal use. Sandy bridge i3 with 4GB of RAM. LAter upgraded the RAM to 8GB, the HDD to an SSD and the CPU to a core i5 (this was before CPUs were soldered to the laptop). 2013 - Started editing videos and my laptop crawled. I built a PC with an fx-8320, 8GB DDR3, 128GB SSD, Corsair CX500, R7 240 early 2014 - upgraded to an i7-4790K, 8GB of RAM, GTX 750 ti, Rosewill 750W PSU, GTX 750 ti late 2014 - jumped on the X99 bandwagon. Upgraded to an i7-5820K, 16GB of RAM, Samsung 950 pro SSD, R9 380. 2017 - Still have the same x99 rig. I can't think of any reason to upgrade. It's so fast for my needs and even AMDs ryzen just can't tempt me to move. I thing i'll stick with X99 for years to come.

2003-2008 : A generic PC, i don't remember the brand but it has the slight of Power Mac G3 design, it was our first and last family PC. It powered by Celeron, has 20GB hard drive, and my father once upgraded its RAM to 256 MB and added an ATI graphic card, and runs Windows XP. I used to play Paint and messing around with Winamp skins and visualizer with it. It stays around until 2010. 2008-2013 : A Compaq Presario v3000. It was our first family notebook, although my mom bought it as a present on my 8th birthday. It powered by Core 2 Duo T7200, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive, and runs Windows XP (upgraded to Win 7 in 2012). It has a touch control bar (before Macbook Touchbar was cool) that impressed me as kid. This notebook introduces me to the internet, powered by a CDMA modem phone. It could downloads a 128Kbps MP3 in a half of an hour. this notebook also led me to learn a lot on more advanced creative graphic apps, mainly Photoshop and Corel. It still works until now, although it's full of bloatware now as my obsession to "install every newest software possible" back when i was kid and nobody uses it anymore. 2013-2018 : An ASUS K45DR notebook. This notebook was probably my first personal notebook. My parents bought it for my present as getting accepted on a top-notch mid school. It powered by AMD A8 4500M with Radeon 7640G + 7440M graphics, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, 500 GB hard drive and originally runs Win 8 (it experienced Win 7, 8.1 and until now it runs Win 10). It was my first gaming-capable notebook and my friends used to borrows it a lot. In its end of usage, its secondary VGA fails (rare chance of OS reinstall it'll work). Since then i haven't trust AMD again and also for the sake of easier Hackintosh install, i'm looked for an Intel notebook. 2018-present : Acer E5-475G. Was excited because my experience of computer OS in Full HD screen. Disappointed because it has a dual-core i5-7200U and silly 4GB RAM while Kaby-Lake R has been around (i live in a small town, this stuff was still highly priced like new) edit : also on its early life, its (mSATA 128GB) SSD weirdly freezes when it reaches 100% r/w usage and the HDD has a weird lag when it accessed after a long idle, even deeper when i realized Hackintosh wouldn't work with its dGPU (940MX). With WIn 10 + Chrome + LINE + Photoshop/Office as my everyday college life, it barely runs properly.

What did you do to your late 2011 15 Inch MacBook Pro screen bezel?

Back in 2003, my very first computer that I used was an Acer Aspire 3680 laptop (80 GB HDD, Windows XP Pro, 512 MB RAM, Intel Celeron M). I mostly played 3D Pinball game, opened MP3 files in there, etc. I kept using that laptop to do lots of stuff until 2013. Then, my father gave me an Acer Aspire One D255 (1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, Windows XP, Intel Atom). And from 2015 until today, I'm using Lenovo G400 laptop (2 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, Intel Celeron, Windows 8.1) to do my school stuff and do video editing.

You are a real tech-man!

Please make more videos like this!

First PC I used was a Pentium 4 pc with windows XP still have the case, Asrock motherboard had died of the plague, now has a Core 2 Duo Asus board. Also with windows XP. Still getting used a few times in the month when I need to use XP software. It’s falling apart though, I’m trying to find another same case to recreate it

All my computer experiment was on Windows, I would like to give you a list of periods of OSes I used until this day: Unknown PC model (2001-2003) Proview PC model (2003-2017) Dell Inspiron 3521 (2013-Present) OS History: Windows 98 SE (2001-2003) Windows XP (2003-2007, 2008-2012) Windows Vista (2007-2008, 2014-2017) Windows 7 (2012-2014) Windows 8 (Sep. 2013- Nov. 2013) Windows 8.1 (Nov. 2013- Oct. 2018, Jun. 2016- Jul. 2016) Windows 10 (Oct. 2015-Jun. 2016, Nov. 2016-Present)

Man. I'm starting to feel old. Here's my computer history: 1. TI-99/4a which I got in 1984. 2. Hyundai IBM compatible 8088 computer with two 5-1/4 floppy drives (1988) 3. Laser IBM compatible 286 PC with 20mb HD (1992) 4. Packard Bell C115 Pentium PC with CD ROM player. (1997) 5. Compaq Presario with DVD ROM player (1999) 6. First and only computer I put together myself using some parts from the Presario (2003) 7. Dell XPS 420 (2007) 8. Alienware Aurora R1 (2010) Current Computer: Alienware Aurora R6 (2017) I only ever bought one laptop in 2008. A Dell XPS M1530 which I still use to this day upgraded to Windows 10 on a SSD.

The first computer I used was an old Acer laptop which came with Vista, but when I started using it, it was already on Windows 7. Then, somewhere in 2014, I got a mew Acer, which came with Windows 8.1, and I wanted to upgrade it to Windows 10, but I never did. I used it for 5 years, until I got a new computer. My new and current computer is a Lenovo IdeaPad 330. It came with Windows 10, but, in the end October 2021, the HDD died. Then, on 30th October 2021, it came with Windows 11. And I used Windows 11 ever since. I also got used to the middle aligned taskbar.

1993 ish till 1996 Compucorp terminal computer. It was a crazy old 1980's system that really only did word processing. 1996 -2002 Custom built Windows 95 system. I remember one of the biggest selling points was the 8 MB of RAM and 1 GB HDD. 2002 - 2004 I bought a used Dell Lattitude laptop with Windows XP. Intel Pentium II 468 MHz CPU. This was also the first time I really got to experience the internet, and upgrading things. Maxed it out with 256 MB of RAM, and downloaded way too many mp3's that I still have today. 2004 - 2011 I built my first PC. Pentium 4 CPU with HT. I think it was 1.8 GHz, and I maxed it out with 2 Gigs of RAM. Bought multiple GPU's for it, including the Nvidia 6800 GTX, played some cool PC games, and experimented with sound cards. I kept this PC going as long as I could, but by the end of it's life, the software had really passed it by. This PC ran Windows 7 by the end of it's life. 2011 - 2014 I built my second PC, using a 6 core AMD Phenom II CPU, and a Nvidia GTX 480 GPU. My first PC with a SSD. When it worked it was lightning fast, but it rarely worked right. Constant crashes, killed the GPU and SSD twice, and I had to move on to something more reliable. 2014 - Present I built an Intel i7 -4770k with a Nvidia GTX 770 PC, and it's still pretty good. 16 Gigs of RAM, and recently updated with a Nvidia RTX 2070 Super. Still using Windows 7. 2013 - Present I bought my own house in 2010, and had Direct TV for two years. When the cost got too high I built an i3 HTPC, bought a tuner card and run Windows Media Center on it. Works great when fully booted, but restarts are very slow due to the Disk style HDD in it. 2018 - 2020 I picked up a 2008 MacBook to play around with, and got my first real taste of macOS since the Apple IIe's back in my grade school days. It was fun, and I enjoyed it. 2020 - Present I got a good deal on a 2010 MacBook Pro 15" i7. I maxed it out with 8 Gigs of RAM, and bought a SSD for it, and got to experience more modern macOS's. 2020 - Present Since I'm not happy with where Windows is going with Windows 10, and M$ always trying to ruin my systems by installing their own software, I picked up a 2012 Mac Pro, and have had a ton of fun with it. This might replace my i7 PC. I have a Radeon RX 580 in it, a NVMe HDD, updated Bluetooth for all the continuity with my iPhone, and the Xeon X5690 CPU with 24 Gigs of RAM. I just wrote a novel.

My first PC was a custom-built Pentium II Windows 98 machine. After a while, we took it apart for reasons I can't remember. When I was 8 (I think), I got permanently kicked off my parents' computer (for virus-ing it), so I rebuilt the old W98 machine. Unfortunately, after a few years, the hard drive got the dreaded "click of death" and I stopped using the computer as I didn't have any spare hard drives. I believe we gave that machine away to Goodwill, so it may still be around somewhere... *FUN FACT:* My family never bought a Mac due to the high price.

where did end that performa 6400? on the trash?

Had a Mid 2010 Macbook pro it overheated in bootcamp and was plagued with bad cooling. I got a gaming computer but had to get a mac book air this year and it was too much money and i barely use it

A little late to the show. The first computer I wrote a programme for was in 1966 The mainframe computer belonged to the local steel works accounts department and our maths teacher arranged for us to be able to programme it via punch cards which we made in an after school club. A programme to work out the square root of a number, (by successive iteration), took many many punch cards but eventually worked. I was 16 or so. Yes I did end up with a career in computing and indeed ended my working life teaching Information technology. On the way I worked for Uk main frame manufacturers, CAD CAM, Industrial robot design and other aspects of computing.

Sometime - 2010: An unknown PC running Windows XP.; no idea where it is now 2010 - 2011: A Compaq laptop running Windows 7; I gave it to my grandpa 2011 - 2013: A Sony VAIO laptop also running Windows 7; we threw it away 2013 - 2014: A ThinkPad T430 running (you guessed it) Windows 7; I think it's somewhere in the shed 2014 - 2015: A Lenovo G20 running Windows 8.1 (later upgraded to Windows 10); it's on its last legs 2018 - 2019: A ThinkPad T450s running Windows 10; it died somehow. F 2019 - now: A Dell Latitude E7470 running Windows 10; it's alright, but I miss my T450s

2010 - 2016: Dell Inspiron N5110 (Ran Windows 7 then upgraded to 10 but now on Chrome OS since windows 10 just broke for some reason) Intel Core i5 don’t know RAM but I think it has over 200GB of storage using a HDD. 2016 - Present: Custom Built Chillblast PC - 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD running Windows 10. Broke a couple of times but now works ;) 2018 - 2019: Excelvan X8 Pro - 6GB + 64GB, basically a rip off of a MacBook running Windows 10. Was pretty good but had very little storage for someone that downloads and draws a lot. I’m still using the Chillblast PC at the moment but later on I’m planning to upgrade to an iMac 21.5 inch Late 2012, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD. Yeah it’s older but I found out that I’m more of a Mac person so I wanted to try it out. Plus if Mac OS fails me I always got Windows 10 to back me up. Will update you guys when it comes :)

Born : Early 2006 (January) First Computer: Mid 2006 to Late 2008, running W98se. Don't really remember much of it. 2nd computer: Early 2009 to Mid 2012 with various upgrades, running Windows XP Pro. 3rd computer: Late 2012 to Mid 2013 with a G4 cube-like body, running Windows 7 Ultimate, loaded it with viruses and fried the motherboard with it. 4th computer: Mid 2013 to Late 2016 with various upgrades, running Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8.1 Pro and a preview version of Windows 10, fried the motherboard after trying to fix it myself and set a part of it on fire. 5th computer (current): Early 2017 to now with various upgrades, running originally Windows 7 Ultimate until December 2019 then upgraded to Windows 10 Pro with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. --- My opinions on any of the OS's the computers ran: W98se: Using it in a VM. not too bad. IIRC, the PC also had Plus! installed. Windows XP: I really miss using it. Windows 7: R.I.P buddy. Windows 8.1: screw it. Would use it only with Classic Shell installed. Windows 10: the only other option is 8.1 or Linux. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: fine to browse with.

I'd like to talk about my computer experience. I started using computers very early in life, too. I was 3 years old and my mother bought a Dell i think it was afterward, much later finding out why exactly, she had a Windows 95 system that crashed. We used this system up until 2007. It had XP installed. The last year we had it, it was shared between me and one of my big brothers. Sometime in November '07 however, my brother spilled a glass of lemonade all over the keyboard, and since it was an old keyboard and it diddn't offer protection like keyboards nowadays DO, it killed the system and we had to throw it out. A few days later, we were handed an older system. It originally had Windows 98SE on it, but it was upgraded to ME shortly after we got it. Surprisingly, the only operating system issue we had with it was ME's stupid warning check messages that we always skipped. However, it soon got plenty of viruses and we eventually removed Internet from our cable service, because we couldn't even use it for the time being considering the viruses. Eventually, we got rid of the viruses, but the damage to the OS in parts was already done. And all throughout 2008, and up to June 2009, we only used the computer for typing up word documents for school and watching videos that we had made. Eventually, the system just wouldn't start anymore, leading my mom to buy two new systems over a span of just two weeks. These two systems both had Windows Vista SP1 installed on them. They were an eMachine E1200-w or something like that, can't be for sure, and an HP pavillion with an unknown model number. It started of course, with the eMachine, My mom returned internet access to our cable service, and started using the internet while we were just playing video games on the Xbox & Wii that we had at the time. Two days after she bought the emachine however, My brother found out the password to the computer, inwhich it diddn't take me that long to get my hands on it, and start playing games. I enjoyed the hell out of it, but a few nights later, My mom caught me playing on it and i was grounded for a day. Luckilly, my 9th birthday was only a week away. And knowing how to use something that truly fascinated me at the time, I explained to my mom that i was ready for my own computer, so on my birthday, she bought a new system for herself, and handed down the eMachine for my own personal use. The system served me well until one of my big cousins jipped me in late 2012, made the system slow down purposely, and we traded systems with me thinking that I was getting a better system. I wasn't. The DVD drive was broken, and the vista installation had MANY, MANY problems. Starting fresh with 7 fixed the OS problems, but the computer was still slightly less powerful than the eMachine. Eventually, my mom bought a new computer just in time for christmas of that year, and handed down the HP that i had previously mentioned. Sometime in mid-2013, a surprise comes in. Just about to finish up 7th grade a few weeks later, I see a wrapped up gift sitting on my bed from my stepbrother who started living with us a couple of months prior, with a note attached to it saying "Yes, you can open it now." Following the note, I unwrap the gift, which happens to be a new-in-the-box Nvidia Geforce GT 440, my first dedicated graphics card. After reading the instructions carefully, I successfully install it, and realize just how better it is than integrated graphics. Christmas 2014 rolls around, and i get parts to build my own budget build. I've been using this same build since then. Fast forward to the future, I have plans to build a studio rig.

My computer history: 1983 - Atari 400 1991 - PC 486 DX 33 clone (used some Macs at work) 1996 - 2015 - lots of PC desktops and laptops running Windows and Linux (still using Macs at work) 2016 - present - a handful of Linux and OSX boxes along with quite a few retro computers (TS1000, C64, classic iBook and iMac, Mac SE, Apple IIe) and currently no Windows, at least not modern. I've got a few older machines running 95, 98, 2000. Still using Macs at work Mostly everything I do is through some form of Ubuntu 16.04 (MATE, Gnome, etc.).

The first computer that my family had was a hand me down which I believe ran on a MS-DOS system. Around 1996 or 1997, my dad bought a windows 95 and used it for 8-10 years. Upgraded to Windows XP in 2005. In 2011, the computer was upgraded to Windows 7.

I started out on PC, then I acquired a friend with someone fortunate enough to have two Macs, a 2006 MacBook (which he later gave to me but now that I have a 2010, idfk how I ever put up with that thing 😂)and he still has an iMac G3 then I really got into Macs and Apple and now to date every electronic I own is basically all Apple. 2 iPhones, 3 iPod touches, a MacBook and my earbuds of choice are EarPods. And I've been Mac and Apple ever since... I don't think I'll ever go back to PC as a daily driver, I only use a PC for gaming now

How much time do you spend today on the internet ? Do you think phones and internet creat addiction? Downey California

My first PC from 2009-2010 was an unbranded tower with an Asus monitor. Never enjoyed it much except for the time we all raved about Cursor Mania. 2011-2012, we moved to my father's and got a wonderful XP desktop. Spent hours on the music section on Encarta 2006 and I think an illegal PC port of Super Mario Bros. Sold it off to relatives a few years later. 2013-2015 or 16 we switched to our family laptop. It was a Dell Inspiron 15R I think and it ran 7 Home Basic and we owned it prior to the systems above. 2016, I got my first personal laptop. Dell Latitude E7240 with 7. This was *the* superior laptop. Fried the motherboard. Luckily the hard drive can still be backed up. Only difference? It was a later Ultrabook unit, has vPro, and updated to Windows 10. Using it to this day, but not my main laptop anymore. 2017, an Acer Aspire Timeline X. A hand-me-down from my mom who used it for almost 7 years and in its last legs, it slowly died on me just a month later. Hated the poor thing. 2019 until now, an HP Elitebook x360. Brought alongside my repaired Latitude and the Acer, it was just a "flex laptop" but slowly became a daily driver alongside the Latitude. Nothing nice to say about this, it was just a mediocre business laptop with 4k, tablet capabilities and a treble-heavy speaker.

The first computer i ever remember using im pretty sure was a really cruddy e machine, everything then on for a long long time i dont quite remember what the specs were, but i started out using windows 98/2000 --> windows xp --> (2008) windows vista --> then i went BACK to xp in 2011/12 on an old gateway laptop given to me by my grandfather, which then subsequently fried and the keyboard caved in --> late 2012 got a window 8 pc that im pretty sure was themed after beats by dre? i literally cant find any evidence of it anywhere online but i swear it was themed after beats --> in 2018 got an hp omen! which i currently use debian on, since windows is invasive. Still works like charm and dont have any intention to replace for a long time!

Hey this is my birthday man

Also do you still have some of the old macbook pros?

2:47 I still have a IBM Deskstar drive, been working since 2002. Maybe I have a lucky one XD

2005-2012 , It was my first computer I had ever used, (I am only 14 right now) It was a Dell Dimension 8200. It is running Windows XP. 2009- 2013, It was a Dell Dimension E510 running Windows XP. It was originally my grandma's from 2006-2009 It had recently stopped working. 2010-2012, It was the first Mac I had ever used, It was my Mom's 2010 Unibody MacBook with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. (It is still running Snow Leopard!) Spring 2015-Summer or fall 2015, It was my first computer I could actually call my own! It was a 2007 MacBook Pro 15 inch on I believe Mac OS X Snow Leopard. My Uncle had Gaven it to me for my 10th birthday.(He knows a lot about computers and has a lot) It had a major problem with it in the summer or fall of 2015. (It was not a gpu failure) My uncle recycled it and I am a bit mad at him for doing it and I might buy another one because I miss my old one. 2014-2017, these were all school computers but they were some model of Acer Chromebooks. 2015-2019, I didn't even know we had this but it is an Early 2005 Mac Mini G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger from my uncle. I found this computer in my basement a year later after I assume I got it. It had an account set up for me already on it. I don't know why he didn't show it to me and not just put it in the basement. It had recently broke because it is not detecting any ram after taking it apart. 2017-2019, this was a school computer, and it was an Acer Chromebook 11 N7, It was slow and unreliable and it has had problems with it. 2019-2023, this is a school computer, it is an early 2015 MacBook Air 11 inch running MacOS 10.14.6 Mojave. I had gotten this computer yesterday and am actually typing this comment on it! P.S.: Unfortunately, I had typed 90% of this comment and it got deleted after spending more than half an hour typing this comment out and had to type it all over again :(.

Extremely huge Mac fan here, But I switched to Mac when windows went down the shithole (8). I still have a deep love for XP, Vista, and 7.

I think those the Macs (Power Mac and Performa) are the same machines, it just changed branding later to Power Macintosh from Performa.

My pc history: Around 2012 when i was about 3, i first got my hands on my families Dell Dimension E310 from around 2005. I only ever played spider solitare and some math games. (still to this day the pc works and is getting moved to windows 10!) Around 2015 i got my first personal pc, a basic hp laptop with windows 10 build 1507. but in around 2018 it suffered a dead drive :( and in november 2020, i got my hands on 3 old windows 7 pcs from my school that had been in service since 2007 but were retired in 2016 when chromebooks came out. the three pcs were: Dell Latitude D620 and a D630, and a Lenovo ThinkPad T61, all of them had fried batteries, and the D630 (which i am typing this comment on right now!), has a dead c-mos battery im replacing! feel free to leave ur history in a reply

I have the same Gateway PC you showed early in the video

u used to run Hitachi DeskStar drives in RAID 0 on my file server with no backups (2x 500)

You should really consider building a Hackintosh; one that's far more powerful, and that can be Upgraded easily. But here's my story: When I was about 7 or so, (Back in 2007) I started using Computers. Our first computer was a Dell Dimension 2400. It was running Windows XP Home, and I loved it! Although, I mostly played games on it and such. That was basically when my love for PC's, started. We had that PC for almost 9+ years, sadly It was working; but, we no longer have it. Eventually in 2010; I got my hands on my 1st laptop. I don't remember the exact model, but it was an old 2006 Acer Aspire. It had a bloated version of Windows XP, which I reinstalled. But, I eventually upgraded it to Windows 7, then Windows 8 Dev Preview in 2011. In 2013, I got a new Acer Aspire 5532 to be exact. I used that thing to death, literally. The GPU eventually failed, and no longer worked. Meaning not even the BIOS works now. But, I still have it to this day. I used to play a lot of Minecraft back in the day on that thing; and it ran it quiet well. After another year, or two; I got my hands on a Dell Optiplex 780, which I still use to this day. Including it's the Mega Tower, meaning I have plenty of Room. Plus I just ordered a new GPU; a Nvidia EVGA GTX 1050 Ti. I mainly use this Desktop for programming, but sometimes gaming. Especially, when I get my new GPU. Shortly after, I got a new Laptop. An Dell Latitude; although I don't remember the model number. But it was a late 2011 Model. It ran far better than the Aspire I had, and it performed quiet good with the built in Geforce GPU. Which I overclocked, but that eventually died as well. The HDD actually failed, most likely to it being used a ton by my cousin, when she was in college. Sadly, it was trashed. Now, fast forward to 2016; I have a new laptop, running Ubuntu. This laptop is a Fujitsu T730. This laptop is quiet nice, it comes with a Wacom Touchscreen, fingerprint censor, swivel screen, Fire-wire 400 apparently, 4GB of RAM as of now, a Core i5 (M520 @2.40Ghz), and Intel HD Gfx 3500. Which isn't bad at all, and I mostly use it for traveling or light gaming, and productivity. I plan on Upgrading it to an Core i7 and 8GB of ram, as well as an SSD. Well, that's my primary experience with computers. Although, I've never had an iMac or any Apple product. My father is as much into tech as I am, and he never liked Macs. He loved PC's and Windows. Most likely due to it having more advanced tools, interface(s), etc. But, I have to agree on that. Although, I plan on building an Hackintosh; and Ken, you should seriously consider building a Hackintosh. Maybe with Dual Xeon CPU's, 32GB of RAM, an SSD or two as well as an 2TB HDD, a Nvidia GTX 960 or something along those lines. Seriously; If you want the best OSX (macOS) experience, go for an Hackintosh! Thanks for reading thus far :)

My first computer was a hand me down Vtech Expo 486 running Windows 3.1 back in 2000. :)

I started off my computer life with an old hp computer I don’t remember what it was i just know it was made by hp and it had a Pentium 4, I would always mess around with games on it until the hard drive eventually failed. Our family didn’t have a computer for a while until we got our first family laptop I remember always playing 1 game on it and I don’t remember what it was, it had been through a lot os failure, overheating issues, hard drive failure and a lot of bsods but to this day the computers motherboard died and the computer what I use now is an old dell latitude e6500 with a core 2 duo, sure that may seem old but it does everything I need to do and that’s the important part of having a computer. Get one that suits you’re needs

My History: 2007-2011/12: A Dell Laptop with a Core 2 Duo, 250GB HDD, Vostro 1500/Crappy Toshiba Satellite Celeron Vista laptop. 2011/12-2013: some laptop I can't remember lol. 2013-2014- Toshiba Satellite laptop with a Intel Core i3, and Windows 8, upgraded to 10 a few years later. 2014-2016: Custom Build Tower Desktop with 8GB of RAM, and a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo. 2016-2016: Packard Bell 2007 with Windows Vista, upgraded to 7, upgraded to 4GB of RAM, blue screened a lot. 2016-2017 HP Pavillion 550-153w with 16GB of RAM, 1TB HDD, 4th Generation Intel Core i3, Intel HD Graphics. Edit: 2017-2018 A Cyberpower PC with a AMD FX-4300, Radeon RX460 2gb, 1TB HDD, 16gb of RAM. Edit 2: 2018- A Custom Build AMD Ryzen 7 2700x build with an EVGA GTX 1060 6GB , 16gb of RAM at 3000MHz, 2TB HDD, 250GB Samsung 970 PRO NVME SSD and an NZXT H440 case.

The first computer that i had was a Fujitu Siemens Amilo Laptop with Windows XP Home Edition, than i had get a Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium (its still my main Laptop!). Now i had a Acer Aspire XC600 with Windows 10 Home.

1. 2004 - Dell Dimension 2800 (XP, Celeron, 256MB RAM, 32GB HD) This is when I learned about Windows Movie Maker and I got into video editing too! 2. 2006 - eMachines/Gateway/Acer W3650 (XP, Celeron, 1GB RAM, 160GB HD) 3. 2013 - HP-Compaq desktop (7, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB? RAM, 1TB HD) 4. 2016 - NuVision TM800W560L (10, Intel Atom, 2GB RAM, 32GB MMC) 5. This Christmas I got an HP Stream 11 (10, Celeron, 4GB RAM, 32GB MMC)

Ahhh... so PPC Macs (the tail end of the classic Macintosh era) were to you like how the Apple IIe was to me. My first experience with computers was with the Apple IIe computers in my old elementary school and then in my mom's workplace at the library. I didn't know what I was really doing, but I never really got into the Apple II line of computers as much as I did the classic Macintoshes (post Jobs 68k to PPC). My first computer device was the NES. Then it was a Macintosh IIsi (68030). I remember playing Lemmings, Sim City (classic), and Marathon in demo form back then. And drawing pictures with Aldus PageMaker 4.0 (page layout software) because I didn't know better until I got Aldus SuperPaint 3.5 (actual painting software). And then I got the SNES. And after that my dad got me a Performa 638CD (68LC040 I think) and I started recording videos because it came with a TV tuner and video in card. But these videos were mainly from hooking my VCR, SNES, and N64 up to it. I then got a Power Macintosh 6100/60 A/V which didn't last too long for me and then I upgraded it to a G3 and installed Mac OS X on it for my dad to use (his first computer). And then I built my first PC after messing around with 386 PCs I got from my cousin (which I tried using Redhat Linux on). It was an Asus A7A266 based one with an Athon 2400+ and Ubuntu Linux. That was later upgraded to an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard with one of the last Athon XP CPUs AMD made (Althon XP 3200+ I think?) and I put Windows XP on it. Then I had a bunch of iMac hand me downs from the parents because the PSU on the A7N8X-E Deluxe (a fanless Thermaltake) fried the motherboard. Then I went to college and bought myself a MacBook Pro 13" early 2011 which I have to this day (it's had Mac OS X and Windows XP/7 through 10 on it). And now I'm looking at building my own PC again and wouldn't you know it, GPUs are being hoarded and scalped by anti-videogame cryptocurrency A-holes... ;-) LOL So, that's on hold.

Early 2000s - I was quite young at the time and it was a family computer - I think it was a Packard Bell desktop with a custom version of windows xp 2008 - I got my first laptop which my Nan gave to me, it was a Toshiba L20 running Windows XP. It ended up getting a broken hinge when I tried to pick it up by its screen (I know I shouldn’t have done that but I was about 6 at the time) 2010 - I got a brand new laptop for Christmas, it was a Toshiba C550D I think I can’t quite remember. It was running windows 7 and was pretty much used daily until I upgraded, yet the laptop is still in use today by my uncle 2014 - I got an ASUS x550c which had windows 8 originally. It was riddled with issues and only really got around 2 years of constant use until I replaced it. The issues included freezing and a lot of the time the bsod. I have since put another hard drive into it and I use it occasionally as a Linux Ubuntu machine. 2016 - I had given up on laptops by this stage and I brought a desktop pc instead. It is a HP slimline computer (Not sure about the model) It has a intel i3 processor (4th generation) and has been in use constantly until this day. 2019 - I am currently looking to build a new gaming rig, I just need to get the money together first.

My computing history... 2010: I get my first computer. It had an Intel Core i3 550, 6 GB of RAM, and used integrated graphics. It ran Windows 7 out of the box. I played a shit ton of Minecraft on this computer. 2015: Upgraded to Windows 10 2017: This is the year where my interest in computers began. I started tinkering with my computers, and became obsessed with learning anything about them. This was also the year when I built my first custom-built PC. It has an Intel Core i7 7700K, 16 GB of RAM, and a GTX 1070. I still use this PC as my daily driver. 2018: I decided to install Linux on my PC. I loved it, and decided to trash my Windows 10 install. aaaaand that's about it.

2014 - Custom-Built Core 2 Duo computer running windows 8.1 then windows 10 2018 - Lenovo Yoga 310 2019 - Apple 2013 Macbook Air 13" inch 2020 - Lenovo Yoga C740 running linux mint then Windows 10 2021 - Custom-Built Ryzen 5 3600 computer running windows 10 then Windows 11 2023 - M1 MacBook Air triple-booted with macOS ventura, Ubuntu 22.10, and Windows 10

Ipod video is still usable for today totally

My first computer was a Packard Bell 486 with Windows 95. I was 3 years old at the time. This was in 2000. Here I am now with an AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

2004-2006 Dell Optiplex - Ran Windows XP SP2 : Hard drive died. 2006-2008 Acer Aspire - Still running Windows XP : 40GB hard drive - 512MB Ram. First pc that got me into being a IT Professional. 2008-2009 HP Something, it died because the cpu got baked. Can't really remember it much due to it being useless for what I needed. 2009-2010 Macbook pro - 4GB of ram, and Intel 3000 Graphics. 2011 - 2015 Lenovo thinkpad: 8GB of ram and a 1TB "Fusion" drive. Lasted me to my sophomore year of high school. 2015 - 2011 Macbook pro, with a mac mini counterpart. 8GB of ram with dual 128GB and 1TB hard drives. I have found no reason to upgrade beyond that. Everything that I deal with as a IT pro can be accomplished on these macs.

been using a Lenovo M55 since 2007 it went from XP-7-8-8.1 And now runs 10 like a dream

I guess I'm late but eh whatever. First computer I used was an unknown 98/ME computer which was gotten the year I was born but I didn't know a lot about it. 2005 my family moved to another country we got a Compaq computer running XP. Sometime after we got a 2008 HP computer running Vista, with the Compaq being given to my sister. Used them until 2009-ish when I personally got a late 90s computer originally running 98 later upgraded to XP. I think in 2010 the HP was given to me and I used it until March 2013, when problems made me not want to use it again. In the meantime I was using an iMac G4 I bought at the time and the same old Compaq. August 2013 I got an iMac Late 2009 and used it as my main computer. Unfortunately, it broke in April 2015 and I failed to repair it, so I had to resort to using my MacBook 2008 (which was received sometime after the iMac and upgraded to a 2009 motherboard in May 2016) for two months until I finally bought parts for a custom PC which I got in May 2015 and still using to this day. Currently I'm hoping to upgrade the motherboard, graphics card, processor heatsink and fan, case, hopefully get a proper backup drive one of these days and reinstall Windows, but I have no idea when that will be happening.

I use the same PC since 2011 and no problem

budgiemint's computer history 2011-2015?? my mom had some lenovo windows xp machine and boy did i play all the racing games i could. then in 2015 we replaced it for a new desktop 2015-2017 (im not sure) upgraded to a hp desktop with windows 8.1 and had motherboard failure sometime arouns 2017-2018 2020-2022 got a chromebook for school then stopped using it in early 2022 after the charger broke and i was too lazy to buy a new one (still have this) 2021-present bought a refurbished acer 2 in one. still have it and is in bad condition 2022-present bought my first mac!!!! a late 2006 17 inch imac with a c2d t7200 2022-present (my current main laptop) used mid 2009 macbook pro with the 2.26 ghz c2d - hinge broke a few days after owning it, got that fixed and just today i dual booted yosemite and zorin os 16.2 lite. there you go. thats budgiemint's computer history

How do you use a mac, they are so difficult to use (mainly because the mouse sucks) but are safer. I prefer windows

I've started using a computer when I was 3 years old (2006) I had a Toshiba satellite laptop with a Intel Pentium 4 and 512MB of Ram sadly the power connector broke so we upgraded to a HP 550 Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB ram and Windows Vista, we kept that laptop until 2014 when we upgraded to an Lenovo B50 with an Intel Core i3 and 4GB of Ram, Windows 8.1 and later during the free upgrade period, upgraded to Windows 10 this is the main family laptop however in Christmas of 2015 I've got a personal Windows 10 2in1 tablet PC with a Intel Atom and 2GB RAM and Windows 10 and this is where I am today.

I was introduced to computers when I was 3 years old. I would jump up on the computer and would cause trouble for my dad and once bidding something on EBay for 5000 dollars. Around when I was 6 years old, my dad got us a new computer. I used that computer more than anyone else in the house! (Correctly) I'm glad I'm smarter than most people in school!

me as a child remember my self with my mother computer on her clinic (she is doctor) and I think it was Windows 98 (for sure it was 9X series) I don't really remember what CPU was in thaer but this computer was not contact to intrnet and I not use theam so much. on the same time my grandma stopped using her MS-DOS computer that was a Intel i386 CPU and that's what I know about them (and in 2015 I ask my grandma if it's fine to take her PC to learn how computers work on the same day's) in 2002 my mom was purchase for custom computer with Intel Pentium 4 with Windows XP system I was fall in love with this system it's was so fun to use it when I was go to my mother workplace over there they was all the computer running Windows 2000 (not ME) that was the only time that I had the option to use the internet so I give that a try but all the system was like Windows 2000 with TON of protection (not all the website was opened to use and every time that I close the web browser when I go back I was needed a username and password of one of the doctors on the clinic​ around that time I was on kindergarten and over there on my first year we used Windows 98 computer with kind of "touch screen" but ob the second year me and my friend we tried to contact the computer to the internet but we somehow delete the MBR of Windows XP system our parents was needed to pay for a new computers and that how it work on class one my mother connected us to the internet one the first time now we will jump few years after on class 6 (2011) I was already like an expert on computering so my friend Edward was introduced me to Linux systems on the same day I was installed on my computer (I don't really remember his parts but It was a really bad computer) and that computer I was take his HDD and create a partition for Linux systems so my first Linux system was fadora 14 KDE distribution (2010) few day after I installed on my own in the first time an os ALONE ii was download on the day was released Ubuntu 11.04 it was a really hard night I didn't know if it gonna fail or something but on the morning all was fine because on that computer was ALL my mom document and it's was win XP system and the HDD was only 180GB so from this year I was using Linux time to time a half year after I was tried to install Ubuntu 11.10 and that was a disaster I was deleted all the partitions on the computer and all my mom work, emails, etc was gone she was really piss off and i installed on the computer Windows 7 a year after I was asked my mom to upgrade my pc and she agreed so we upgraded to Intel i3 3.30GHz 4GB of ram 500+180GB of HDD and nvida GT 610 2GB (this computer still with me) and on this pc I was started this Channel until 2014 my High School was required to purchase a laptop so my mom told me that she will buy for me a laptop but I need to give her back my pc so I was agreed (not a really good idea) so she purchase for me the laptop lenovo G510 Intel core i3 processor AMD video card 1GB and 4GB ram with Windows 8.1 I was so hated that system the after few months I back to Linux and I get my grandma computer and I even don't get a chance to see how it's working because I kiil him and on my laptop I every few months I change an os until I go to Windows 10 I was like that but not so much and here I am using Windows 10 on 3 computers in my house and on VM I using Linux thx for reeding and tnx Kan

I'm pretty sure that my first computer experience was some Dell tower with XP on it. We had Kid Pix on it, I really loved that, but my favorite thing to do besides pinball was play this game called "The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis." I was/am terrible at it, but I still have very fond memories. After that died, we got an HP tower with Windows 7, which is what I remember the most out of our PC days. Some time into that, we decided to get an iMac, I think it was late 2009. That one lasted until 2015, where it eventually got too slow to so much, but it still functioned great. Then we got a 21.5" iMac which is what we have now. I'm looking into an iPad for my school stuff, but I'm also thinking about a 2-in-1 PC as well.

My History: (These was my parents, I just really like them) Toshiba Tecra A3 (Windows XP Pro, 1 GB Ram, Intel Centrino) Dell Dimension 9150? (Windows XP Pro) Dell Dimension 8300 (Windows XP Home) Dell Studio ??? (Windows Vista Home Premium) (This was my first-ish computer that belonged to me) Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop (Windows XP Media Center, 1 GB Ram, Intel Centrino Duo, 80 GB HDD) (My first BRAND NEW computer) Microsoft Surface (RT?) (Windows 8, i cant remember the specs sry my dad got it from staples or something) (Moving on,) HP Pavilion 500-223w (Windows 8.1 home, 8 gb ram, 1tb hdd) Toshiba Satellite l15w (Windows 8.1 pro, 4 gb ram, 128gb ssd, todays laptop) HP Pavilion b030xt 24 in AIO (came with windows 10, but installed windows 8.1 pro cuz 10 sucks, 8 gb ram, 1 tb HDD, touchscreen, todays desktop) The only reason why i got 2 HP Pavilions was my loyalty and reliability to an old HP Pavilion 6630 I dug out of the Garage (where all our old computers rest in the dust)

Just back in like 2008 or 2007 I used a PC for the first time. (I was born in 2005) Then i used a Packard Bell with Windows XP. Till like 2010 my dad bought a windows 7 pc a HP all in one pc. When windows 10 came out we upgraded the pc to windows 10. In this year i bought a Dell dimension 3100. A old Windows xp machine i did sone experiments with it. Like upgrading it to windows 7 (for a week) This is my very first pc that i own.