PixlBit

I don't know if the Apple IIc was different from the Apple II+ I had, but the IIc had a mouse, so maybe it was.  We got our first PC (the Apple II+) when I was about in kindergarten.  In fact I remember testing it out at the sales rep's house.  He was wearing an Apple rainbow logo shirt and let me sit in his lap to play Pac-Man on the computer we were about to get (remember I was just a little kid).  While everyone else was complaining about the bad port of Pac-Man on the 2600, I was happily playing a pretty close arcade version of it on the computer, as well as other arcade games like Frogger and Zaxxon.  I also enjoyed a lot of original games on it like Choplifter, Lode Runner, Spare Change, and Aquatron.

The IIc was marketed as portable and easy to use for those unfamiliar with computers. It was less expandable than the other II series machines and had a slightly less powerful processor. 

Vintage computers would be a fun thing to get into. 

I'm not sure which one we had, but my mom taught computers at a vocational school, and part of that was getting one to take home with her (which I played games on.) But, when PCs became more dominant, I didn't look back at the Apple, and wouldn't use a Mac until years later. 

Games were so much more numerous on PC than Apple. 

They still are, especially now that Apple is using Apple Silicon instead of a x86 architecture. But I don't really use computers for gaming, and my MacBook is amazing for everything I need it for. 

I'd love to get a gaming PC going again. Problem now is only time. 

I'm mostly familiar with the Apple II because it was the default computer in schools when I was in school, and there weren't many of them to go around. And mostly, we were limited to educational applications (I learned how to type 60 WPM on an Apple II at school) and edugames like Oregon Trail. Every once in awhile there'd be something like Montezuma's Revenge or Pulsar II (a Star Castle clone), and I think I saw Karateka for Apple II once. It wasn't as good of a gaming computer as the Atari 8-bit line, but in school, we took what we could get, lol.

Nowadays I am a Mac user and haven't touched Windows outside of work for almost ten years. 

I remember looking in to the computer room in High School and deciding that it wasn't for me. It seemed like a math/science thing, and I was into writing and the arts. So I never played Oregon Trail and such at school. 

My friend who I game with, used to be all about the PC but now has an Apple and never wants to go back. 

Honestly, I don't either. Mac works with my iPhone, and its free applications are as good as Microsoft Office. Plus, the computer has a lot less bloatware. 

It doesn't do a lot of games, since a lot of game companies seem to have given up on the Mac market even before Apple switched from Intel to Apple Silicon, though it does include a few. You can even get Resident Evil Village on the App Store, and I have Cities Skylines on mine. But for everything else, I like my Macbook better than I ever did Windows, which now seems hopelessly clunky and bloated by comparison. My Mac never randomly shuts down to update itself.

I've wanted a Mac for years, but it's always been money that's kept me in PC land. 

I kind of want to try the Microsoft Surface right now, but I'm not sure I even need a computer right now since I do almost everything on my phone these days. 

These days, Windows PCs that aren't complete potatoes cost as much as some Macs, while even the low-end Macbooks are still very capable machines compared to low-end PCs. That helped facilitate my switch.

Under $2000?! Take my money!

I've been shocked by the price tags of computers in the 80s.