[chrizel]

I bought my first desktop Mac back in 2004 after owning an iBook 3G since 2002. And as a 19 year old software developer from Germany who finished his apprenticeship, I wanted the best Mac I could afford. I bought a Power Mac G5 - one of the first dual core models with water cooling. Was a lot of money back then and I waited months for it to arrive, but it was a great machine.

Played a lot of World of Warcraft on this thing. :-) And did some Cocoa/Objective-C development. But it was never the big investment that I thought it would be. After the Intel switch in 2006, the Power Mac G5 didn't have much more use for me personally because the new Intel machines were so much better...

Today I'm more into buying the cheaper machines for myself. Should have put the money from the Power Mac G5 into Apple stocks...

[Normille]

My first desktop Mac was an 8500. I bought it when I was a student and took out a loan to buy it at £3500 second hand. Unbelievable how cheap computing power has become in such a relatively short time.