Love the Macs man.
here's a few of mine over a couple years. Wish I still had so many machines.

2.5GHz i5 iMac. I've also got a 1st gen 16 gig 3G iPad, not pictured.

I have an Original Black 2006 Macbook 1,1 here (Core Duo T2500, 2GB RAM, 100 GB HDD), pictured along with my T60p and the most heavily licensed printer in the world.





It's in really good condition for a 2006 Macbook. The Thinkpad is in pretty good shape too, but nowhere near as good.

I have a mid-2010 MacBook and 13" MacBook Pro, both with 8GB RAM and an Intel 360 120GB SSD. They work just fine with Snow Leopard. (Too much negative feedback on Lion for my taste.)

I inherited my wife's old R51 and it was solid but not speedy. I tried the MBP out for a while but ended up giving it to my daughter for schoolwork - w/MS Office for Mac 2008. That's when the W520 came into play.

Not sure what my "upgrade" path will be now. W530? Don't really think so. Maybe a Sager based unit. If I must eat the keyboard, I might as well have some flexibility wrt the CPU, GPU, etc.

Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk 2

That's a nice combination... (I always liked those black macs...)

Here is one I bought from a forum member here on TPF. Pretty nice looking and had a nice bright and vivid screen. It had a pretty slow processor and a keyboard that I did not particularly like (sort of mushy). If the processor had been at least 1.6 G4 I might have kept it just because

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/850/ibook1.jpg/

I've been trying to find a more modern one with a Core 2 Duo for a decent price. Still looking...
I just noticed too, that the Macboks have the Fn and Ctrl keys in the correct order too. Nice

Two MacBook Airs at the moment, both 11.6". One is the late 2010 model, the newest one has a backlit keyboard. The late 2010 is up for sale on eBay, but I'll admit I probably would have kept it had FreeBSD detected the wireless card.

I forgot completely about the black Macbooks. I was envious of my buddy who had one several years ago (I was still working with a T41 at the time). Such a nice looking system, but they were just too expensive to justify the cost. I ended up going with the T61 for around $700.

I did get to review the Air earlier this year and had a mini a few years back. I liked them as something different, but I wouldn't pay extra to get one. The thing I liked the most about my Mac is that I was able to sell it for more than I paid for it after two years of ownership, though I did upgrade the hard drive.

I agree they look nice but I would rather own something unique. The fact that Apple laptops (and tablets and smartphones) are everywhere is one of the reasons I don't want to buy a Macbook or iPad or iPhone. Honestly, I am a bit disappointed that these days many young people just want to be like everyone else.

Around that time, I was looking for a good proper UNIX laptop to replace my FreeBSD/T41 setup. FreeBSD couldn't suspend/resume on dual-core processors (and still can't), and KDE was a mess, having just hit 4.0. The MacBook presented an aesthetically pleasing desktop with full hardware acceleration on top of a UNIX core, and I wanted the black one specifically to be as different as possible from the rest of the Mac cult.

Years later, I'm able to afford the MacBook Air for my wife. She is on her second machine now, since they are non-upgradable (soldered RAM, proprietary SSD connector). The high resale value of these machines helps subsidize the cost of the new one, so effectively, I'm just paying a two hundred dollar "upgrade" for a 4x larger SSD, newer generation Intel processor, backlit keyboard, new OS, etc. In turn, my desire to use a Mac has subsided, partially because Fedora + KDE is a pretty good setup on my Thinkpad, but mostly because I think Apple has regressed in the personal computer market. Lion was the "Vista" of MacOS releases, and with non-servicable parts and non-replacable batteries, the hardware has moved on to a different target demographic.

I like how Thinkpad users love this, the rest of the notebook world hates it.

Wow, this will take a while.

Personal Macs:
Retina MacBook Pro
11" MacBook Air (2011 model)

Wife:
13" MacBook Pro (2011 model)

Daughter:
13" MacBook Aluminum (2008 model)

Business:
21.5" iMac (2011 model) X3
13" MacBook Pro (2009~2011 models) X3
Mac Mini (2010 Model)
20" iMac (2008 model)

Non-Macs:

Me:
ThinkPad X61s (for military use)

Business:
Dell PowerEdge T410 server running Windows SBS2011