Re: MacBook Pro?
Ah, another Mac thread. Gotta love these, don't ya Silverstring?!?
My iBook (dual USB) is entering its SIXTH year of service this month (purchased in June 2001). It still has stock everything (20 GB HD, 256 MB RAM, Airport....revolutionary at the time) and its running OS X 10.3.9. Taking it back and forth with me to grad school every week this summer 3 hours north of here.
Is it a little slow? A tad...but it still get the job done very well. Web pages load quickly in Safari, I can do everything I need to in Office 2004, iTunes is up-to-date and feeds my iPod. Remember, this laptop is over 5 years old!!
I opened it at my buddy's place I'm staying at to look for a network to hop on, and he and his fiance say "Hey, that's a nice looking computer. When did you get that?" My reply, "Five years ago". It is the 500 MHz G3 iBook when they first went to the little white "chiclet" form factor from the old "toilet seat lid" shape.
I'm going to be very sad when it dies......because I can't get a new one for the forseeable future (just got a mini last summer, and agreed with the wife that I'd stop with the Mac stuff for a while).
Ah, another Mac thread. Gotta love these, don't ya Silverstring?!?
My iBook (dual USB) is entering its SIXTH year of service this month (purchased in June 2001). It still has stock everything (20 GB HD, 256 MB RAM, Airport....revolutionary at the time) and its running OS X 10.3.9. Taking it back and forth with me to grad school every week this summer 3 hours north of here.
Is it a little slow? A tad...but it still get the job done very well. Web pages load quickly in Safari, I can do everything I need to in Office 2004, iTunes is up-to-date and feeds my iPod. Remember, this laptop is over 5 years old!!
I opened it at my buddy's place I'm staying at to look for a network to hop on, and he and his fiance say "Hey, that's a nice looking computer. When did you get that?" My reply, "Five years ago". It is the 500 MHz G3 iBook when they first went to the little white "chiclet" form factor from the old "toilet seat lid" shape.
I'm going to be very sad when it dies......because I can't get a new one for the forseeable future (just got a mini last summer, and agreed with the wife that I'd stop with the Mac stuff for a while).
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