Hi Paul,
There are two kinds of computer users. The first is like my friend
John. He is always looking for new hardware or software to use. This
search is always leading him to add to or upgrade his computing
equipment. Mind you he has never had a "new" computer but he is
constantly upgrading and trading to get more space or speed or
compatibility. He is looking for things his computer won't do or run so
he can upgrade. His current setup does everything we all want computers
for but that is beside the point.
I belong to the second group. My love for technical stuff is no less
than John but I spend my time looking for software that will run on what
I have. (iMac Rev A 96M, Quadra 840AV 48M) I have found reasons to
upgrade but they don't really apply to me or my situation. I suppose if
the keepers of the Internet decide to radically change HTML and obsolete
every thing from version 4 back then every browser company decides to
stop supporting anything that can run on a PPC chip then that would
cause me to have to buy whatever new machine could access the Internet.
But in reality in ten years I will still be using my Quadra 840 for
email, word processing and file and print sharing, and I will be using
my 233 Mz 96M iMac to surf the web and manage my digital photos.
You need to decide which group you are in because that will determine
who you will listen to. People like me that will never find a task that
can't be done with their old hardware or people like John that won't
rest until they do.
Mark,
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Q 2) I have been told that, within about two more years, our Rev A iMac
will
become mostly obsolete for accessing the internet as progress(?) marches
on!
True our iMac is a tad slow by comparison, but I'm seldom in so much of
a
hurry to have that be a big problem. Still, if this obsolescence is to
become an unavoidable reality which must be dealt with, what if
anything, can
I do to modify this machine to cope with new technologies on the web for
a
few years longer? I have investigated installing a faster chip, but the
cost
seems excessive. I really do prefer this old iMac with its drawer
loading CD
option and would prefer to keep it if it could be upgraded fairly
simply! Is
there a 'cheap chip joint' somewhere out there on the web where I can
buy an
enexpensive processing chip suitable for our iMac Rev A?
Best Regards,
Paul Mitchell
Using an iMac Rev A
OS 8.6 with 386 meg RAM installed...
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