I am a huge Apple fanatic. My family got it's first computer when I was about 6 or 7 years old. We got an Apple IIe. It was a great time to learn computers. It was the beginning of the home computer revolution, but the machines still were some what complex.

I first opened it up back when I was 6 and around the same time I started to learn basic on the IIe.

A few years later, about 1986, my brother Ron purchased a Macintosh 512ke. That was my first exposure to the GUI with a mouse. The idea blew me away. I was awestruck at how easy this computer was to operate. stick in a boot disk and double click on a icon and bam, I was running the program.

The ability to easily move files, to copy and paste between application was a huge turning point in home computing.

For many years to come I went through a computer drought. My brother left for college in 1987 and took his 512ke with him. The only computer I had at home for the next 9 years was that old IIE.

During this period in my life I mostly used IBM compatible PC's at school. Working in MS-DOS 3.3 through MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. Through out this whole time period I never stopped loving the Macintosh.

I would get into arguments with my friends on the merits of the Macintosh VS. PC's for hours on end. I dreamed of owning my own mac with System 7 for a long time. Then my senior year in High School I managed to buy a Power Macintosh 6100/60.

His name was Hawkness, the Harbinger of Death. He initially had 8 megs of RAM that was later upgraded to 24 megs. The first game I purchased with this computer was Marathon by Bungie. This game made me a die hard bungie fan.

My next computer was a Power Macintosh 7600/132 I bought at Best Buy while I was working there. His Name was Arkos, The Death Night. A great feature of this machine was that it had a video capture option built in to the Mother board. This was also the first machine I went to a dual monitor configuration. When I picked up an ATI Xclaim 3d with a Rage II+ chipset with 8 Megs of VRAM. I believe I had 96 megs of RAM on this one.

This machine was a bit of a departure from the Apple bandwagon. It was a Umax S900/233. His name was Maximus, The Avatar of Death. It was a Macintosh clone ruffly equivalent to a Power Macintosh 9600. It had 6 PCI Slots, 8 DRAM DIMM sockets. I loaded this machine down. It had 196 megs of Ram. 3 Narrow SCSI hard drives, 2 UW SCSI drives. I had a IMS Twin Turbo 8 Meg Video card, a ATI Xclaim 3d Pro (Rage Pro chipset) and a Techworks Voodoo 1 card. I also installed a TV Tuner card, A internal Zip Drive, a Internal Jaz Drive, an external CD-R, and a SCSI Scanner.

I had the Umax for quite a while, but I finally came back to the Apple fold. Thanatos, the Incarnation of Death was my next machine. He was a Blue and White G3. He was a 350 Mhz G3, with 384 megs of RAM, a Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card, 3 9gig seagate Barracuda's and a Seagate Cheetah for boot.

I went though a few computer pretty quickly right here. I next purchased a Power Macintosh G4/400, with a Yikes! motherboard, used when the Sawtooth machines came out. I named this one Phil. Phil had 384 Megs of RAM and all the drives from Thanatos. While I had phil I picked up a USB CD-RW and got a Sony DV transcoder box for doing video editing.

When this model came out I had to get it. To this day I still believe it was the best deal available for G4 Towers. It is a Power Macintosh G4/Dual 533. This machine used the PPC 7410 Processor. This chip had a 4 stage instruction pipe and was the highest clocked ship with this short of a pipeline. This gave it a performance advantage over the other models available at the time. It was a thousand dollars cheaper than the high end model that was available at the time and it was nearly 70 percent faster.
His name in Charon. He has 640 megs of RAM, a ATI Radeon 32meg DDR video card, and a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!. In case your wondering "What the heck is up with all the death references in his computer names?". I came up the the handle Black Death when I used to play Marathon multi-player. I still use the handle today for online gaming.

Now we come to my 3rd G4. His name is Cerebus. He is a Dual 867 (Mirror Drive Door) with 768 MB of PC2100 DDR RAM. Here is a list of his components: 4 internal IBM Deskstar 80 gig IDE HDD's, 1 external Firewire HDD with a IBM Deskstar Mechanism, 1 Pioneer DVR-104 Apple OEM (A.K.A Superdrive), 48x24x48 CD-RW, GeForce 4 Titanium 4600 128MB VRAM, M-Audio Delta 44 Audio card, ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition 32 MB, Matrox RTmac, I'm using 2 Apple 17" Studio Displays (CRT), 1 17" Viewsonic CRT, and a Cannon LiDE 30 scanner. I didn't go with the higher models because I didn't feel they were worth the price difference. He's a good machine but I do miss Charon... he was one of my best machines ever... *sniff* take care of him Jeremy.

Only about 10 Month's after I got Cerebus I replaced him with a brand new first edition G5 Tower. This mighty specimen is named The Overlord from Planet 9. The Overlord is a Dual 2 Gigahertz Power Macintosh G5. He had 2.5 Gigs of Ram, Dual 250gig Sata drives and he ended up with a Pioneer DVR-110 16x Dual layer DVD Burner. For graphics cards The Overlord started out with a stock Radeon 9600 64MB. That card didn't last long at all. It was soon replaced with a Radeon 9600XT 128MB. And that card lasted an even shorter amount of time as it was replaced by a Radeon X800XT 512MB. I had this machine for a quite a long time. I would say that this machine was another machine to remember just like Charon. I used this machine for 2.5 years and even at the end it didn't feel like an old computer.

Now we arrive at my current machine. As good as The Overlord was there always comes a time when something better is worth the money. So I present to you, Eddie. Eddie is a Mac Pro Quad 2.66. The machine has dual Intel 5150 Xeon Processors, 2 gig of FBDimm memory, 1.25 Terabytes of HDD storage, Dual DVD burners and a Radeon X1900 XT 512MB graphics card. Yes I have a Intel Processor based machine and am actually proud of it! The new Core series of chips from intel is so much better than their old Netburst based garbage. Eddie has been a great machine so far I think it may last me for a little while.