I have a G4 1.42DP that I bought new in March 2003. I had actually
purchased a 1.0ghz IIRC just before that as the logic board had fried
in my Yikes! When this was announced at MacWorld days later, the
Apple Store let me upgrade to the 1.42DP provided I paid the
difference, which I gladly did (they wouldn't let me downgrade).
Since then I've had a 12" 1.2 iBook (bad display, I'd still like to
get it working again), and since in Oct 08 I bought the first of the
aluminium MacBooks.
That said, I do still use my G4 every day! For what I do on it, it is
actually fast. I have maxed the ram and put in two 500gb SATA drives
last year. I do most of my Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop CS work on
it. (and yes, I have opened Illy CS3 on an 8-core MacPro at the Apple
Store - wow!)
The only thing keeping me from getting rid of this is the price of
the MacPro and the fact that I am not bottlenecking on it at all.
But yes, as every year goes by, I think, yep, it's getting to be that
time. I think this beats my SE by a year and that was really getting
long in the tooth as programs were going to color back then. If I
felt that way with the G4 then I'd never use it since I have the MB.
I know I got a killer machine in this one, I am so happy with it. I
hope that my next one is just as good.
Sometimes I think of an iMac since they are less $$ but I am really
going to have to think about future upgradeability etc. Sure wish I
was in the position to upgrade every year or two. One can dream. :)
For now I'll keep my $$ in the MB as I do transport it often. But I
don't think I can switch to a laptop only.
FWIW I'm running Leopard on the G4. I upgraded with the drives, did a
fresh install and it was much faster than Tiger for me. The old
drives had gone through a few OS's.
Diane
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