I would look for a power pc on ebay but ppc is dieing sense intel is going to be the new chip my guess there going to be fasing out ppc software eventually. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 1:24 PM Subject: The Mac, the real thing.
> Well, they're certainly stable there's no doubt about that and I > think they're good value for money too. > > According to the australian Apple Store, the apple G4 Ibook (the > machine i'm currently using), is $1,000.00 new. Yes, this machine > uses the old Power PC chips but it hasn't missed a beat since I got > it 4 weeks ago and its just amazing how fast the machine is at... > well... pretty much everything I've thrown at it including recording > audio, encoding audio etc so if I'm getting this out of a notebook > and I can't get the software for it in 3 years time then I would > consider myself very well served. I am however striving to get a new > Intel Mac by the end of the year, I'll see how I go. > > > On 30/04/2006, at 5:12 AM, Jesse A. Kragiel wrote: > > > Nope. It will only run the Tiger hacks. Apple includes something in > > the EFI > > to detect if it's a legit machine or not. Don't forget that OSX and > > the Mac > > hardware are written to go hand in hand, and that's why the Macs > > are such > > stable machines. Spring for the real thing, and you will be happy. > > > > > >
