Hi, I'm Piotr (Peter), 17 and I live in small village near Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport, Poland.
I don't have ANY Apple hardware, because I think that modern Mac's are too expensive, but back then when there was Apple System with GUI or PC/MS/DR/whatever-DOS without multitasking (I know that multitask in Apple was from System 7).
Modern Mac's according to me are, indeed powerful, but the most popular Apple thing here is iPod Nano/Classic (which are selling without iTunes, yes its true).
Macbooks, iMacs and other Mac computers are mostly popular in two groups: teenagers that want to be "cool" (and who ran on parents money) and 20+ people with jobs who thinks that if they have Mac they will look richer and cooler.
To understand why you must know typical cost of Mac in comparision with typical PC (to work, internet and not-so-old (about 2008 yr.) games and typical earnings of typical Kowalski (the most common surname in Poland):
minimal earnings in Poland is about 800 Polish Złoty (PLN), typical are at about 1,5-2k PLN per one person in family (like in my family) if there is one child and both parents are working (I have 5 dogs, but it isn't counting ;D ). I'm not poor, but not so rich too, middle class I think.
Most people in Poland (including my family) has credits (migration from cities to villages).
Price for the cheapest MacBook 13,3" T8500 250GB HDD and 2048 MB RAM is at about 4,5k PLN. My netbook (1201N) is in the 3076 MB RAM configuration and is worth about 1,7k PLN. The bigger MacBook, the bigger price. Like 15,4" MacBook Pro with i5-540M 4096 MB RAM 500 GB HDD, the cheapest 15,4" MBPro in local shop: 8711 PLN.
And IMO one button mouse without wheel to scroll text isn't good.
Anyway, as person I'm shy and nerdy no-life who loves computers and has luck to the HDD's (4 dead this year, my netbook is now in service. Why? You guessed, HDD. In 5 month old netbook.).
The oldest computer I remember was PI (I think, or PII), 32MB RAM and W95 (98 later). The oldest I have in home is Celeron 1.7, 256 MB of dead RAM, one dead motherboard (other is mounted) which will have new life in pieces (Socket 478 as keyring) and dead HDD.
Oldest computer-like thing is my 1999 Nokia 8210 (8290 in US).
I would LOVE to have a Classic Mac Compact in home, but for now I don't have money. Maybe someday.
If you finally ended reading it, do not post tl;dr or Poland cannot into space, please ;D
And I 'm sorry for every mistake, I'm still learning.
I don't have ANY Apple hardware, because I think that modern Mac's are too expensive, but back then when there was Apple System with GUI or PC/MS/DR/whatever-DOS without multitasking (I know that multitask in Apple was from System 7).
Modern Mac's according to me are, indeed powerful, but the most popular Apple thing here is iPod Nano/Classic (which are selling without iTunes, yes its true).
Macbooks, iMacs and other Mac computers are mostly popular in two groups: teenagers that want to be "cool" (and who ran on parents money) and 20+ people with jobs who thinks that if they have Mac they will look richer and cooler.
To understand why you must know typical cost of Mac in comparision with typical PC (to work, internet and not-so-old (about 2008 yr.) games and typical earnings of typical Kowalski (the most common surname in Poland):
minimal earnings in Poland is about 800 Polish Złoty (PLN), typical are at about 1,5-2k PLN per one person in family (like in my family) if there is one child and both parents are working (I have 5 dogs, but it isn't counting ;D ). I'm not poor, but not so rich too, middle class I think.
Most people in Poland (including my family) has credits (migration from cities to villages).
Price for the cheapest MacBook 13,3" T8500 250GB HDD and 2048 MB RAM is at about 4,5k PLN. My netbook (1201N) is in the 3076 MB RAM configuration and is worth about 1,7k PLN. The bigger MacBook, the bigger price. Like 15,4" MacBook Pro with i5-540M 4096 MB RAM 500 GB HDD, the cheapest 15,4" MBPro in local shop: 8711 PLN.
And IMO one button mouse without wheel to scroll text isn't good.
Anyway, as person I'm shy and nerdy no-life who loves computers and has luck to the HDD's (4 dead this year, my netbook is now in service. Why? You guessed, HDD. In 5 month old netbook.).
The oldest computer I remember was PI (I think, or PII), 32MB RAM and W95 (98 later). The oldest I have in home is Celeron 1.7, 256 MB of dead RAM, one dead motherboard (other is mounted) which will have new life in pieces (Socket 478 as keyring) and dead HDD.
Oldest computer-like thing is my 1999 Nokia 8210 (8290 in US).
I would LOVE to have a Classic Mac Compact in home, but for now I don't have money. Maybe someday.
If you finally ended reading it, do not post tl;dr or Poland cannot into space, please ;D
And I 'm sorry for every mistake, I'm still learning.