nestamicky wrote: > > > James E. Therrault wrote: > >>Andy wrote: >> >> >>>>Compare this to the ancient laptop, (the one and only), produced by >>>>Power Computing in 1997. It took all of six minutes to upgrade the HD in >>>>it! Superb industrial design. >>>> >>>> >>>I agree with you over the older Powerbooks/iBooks,however upgrading the HD >>>in a Macbook takes about 3 mins. >>> >>>Andy >>> >>> >>> >> >> >>Thanks for the update. OTOH, the failure rate of the newer notebooks is >>higher than the older ones. <sigh> >> >>As a retired process, (manufacturing), engineer, I have little patience >>when it comes to repair/maintenance procedures. Guess that's why I >>still drive a (very) old car.. >> >><G> >> >>JT >> >>And while you have that old car, I need not ask you care for it like you >>would a child. Because the trend now is for us to drive computers...making it >>impossible for us to change even the oil.
My old Studebaker will run even when the Iranians drop that surprise neutron bomb. Consider that the two ton beast gets up to 25mpg too. Even my gen II Honda Civic can be quickly converted to points 'n condenser and that gets 42mpg in mixed driving. As regards Apple's laptops: I consider each journey into them, except the Pismo and Lombard, a challegene against Apple. Sticking it to them as they obviously do not want people in them, based on how they pack 'em. But the zeal is draining...I've now for 4 months been dreading opening up an iBook with the dreaded video problem. And yes, I know about ifixit. I had a 466 MHz clamshell with a paltry 10GB drive. I was lucky in that I conned a local Mac Guru to change it out to a 120GB. Freakin' HD was the last item in the case access-wise. JT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
