[Destiny Lund]

My 1st laptop is an Acer netbook I have right now, it was a Christmas present from my husband last year.

[Nutkin]

My first laptop was an inherited ancient toshiba lap top that was windows 98. :0

[peppersasen]

NEC Versa E3100.

[ShadowComet]

heh...so many people getting computers as gifts, I was never that lucky, I had to buy practically every piece of electronics I own. Now, I've replaced some that others have bought for me, and I imagine that won't stop any time soon. Sorry, but for how much electronics change, I too believe that one should buy most of it themselves. Now, even that said, laptops are becoming a school companion, and okay, I'll bite, kid just won't get allowance that year.

[blkrbt]

1st - IBM ThinkPad 390 ('98) (or something very similar) belonged to the rents
2nd - Averatec 3120 ('03) bought it for a cheap 450 after rebates... I loved this laptop but a lot of upgrades in it but it just couldn't do vista
3rd - MBP ('08) still running strong although I did have to replaced the screen, turns out concrete really doesn't flex

and since now I see a pattern here... maybe MBAir '13 ?

[hylogenesis]

I remember our first computer. It was a Packard Bell running Windows 95. The word processor was called "write." It was basically a ritzy version of notepad. It came pre-loaded with Ski-Free, Minesweeper, and Rodent's Revenge. We had America Online and it would be all "you have mail."

This was also my first computer, handed down to me after my mom bought the new Gateway machine. I couldn't tell you how many hours I logged dinking around on that thing, but one day, the young me decided to dink around in regions undinked and accidentally deleted the startup script. *headdesk*

I saved the computer, knowing that one day I'd be able to re-write that shit, or at least get a new disk from the company...but my dad saw no value in the computer that could do no more than tell me it could do nothing and he didn't want to wait for my knowledge to expand. He chucked it in the trash and I can honestly say that I'm saddened by this loss...especially since now, as a computer major, I'd be able to get it up and running...

And I had so many ideas of things I could use it for... *double headdesk*

Dad, you acknowledge that I'm right a good portion of the time...why did you not listen to me when I told you not to throw it out, I'm gonna do something with it, dammit?

[Esoteric Enchantment]

When I was 18 my parents bought me a Toshiba

[Mind Swirl]

I didn't get my own computer (it was a laptop) until I was an adult. I needed it for college.

The first computer my parents bought had Windows 3.1/DOS. I remember my parents going to the store to look at it. Most people we knew didn't even have a computer in the home.

[FigureSkater]

I got my first laptop last summer! It's some kind of HP.

[bored]

I got my first laptop in 2006 for school (mbp) and I'm using it right now! lol Love this thing but it will need to be retired soon as the logic board shorts out and causes the computer to cut off (because it's warped from heat) and the processor doesn't run as efficiently as it used to :'(