Agreed. It was the combination of the new direction for the machines, and OS X. I just made a post about my first Mac, but TL;DR, OS X came out in 2001 and I di

Agreed. It was the combination of the new direction for the machines, and OS X. I just made a post about my first Mac, but TL;DR, OS X came out in 2001 and I didn't buy my first machine 'till late 2002, and even then, having a Mac was very unusual and, I thought, would be looked down on by tech people -- nobody had one, and I didn't THINK anyone was interested in them. Turned out, the interest in my new machine was a lot higher than I had expected. But, again, this is 5 years after the lollipop iMacs.