On 24 Oct 2005, at 21:14, Andy Collins wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm still a relative newbie to the mac platform though I've been a
PC and Unix
user since the days before PCs. I've got an old 4400 and some bits
of iMacs
that I swear one day I'll assemble into a working machine but I
spend any
"quality time" with a mac fiddling rather than using.
What do you mean?? Fiddling *is* quality time ;o)
However, I'm seriously thinking about getting my wife a proper,
working, 2nd
hand laptop for Christmas and could use your advice. As you'll see
from the
above paragraph, budget is really tight, that's why I have bits of
iMacs and
not marvellous, fully functional iMacs.
I have recently got my paws on a Rev. 1 White iBook 500MHz (the 8MB
Rage 128 variant) and it's a darling. It's so nice to work on, looks
cute without being outlandishly silly colours, and runs all versions
of OS X. Around £275-300 is the going rate for an original iBook
G3/500 in good condition.
Be very careful with later revision White G3 iBooks - a lot of them
suffer logic board traumas. There is a replacement scheme but it
doesn't exhaustively cover absolutely all models affected. Caveat
Emptor.
Pismo and Lombard powerbooks re also nice but pricey and not
performance wise any better than the iBook. I looked at a Pismo and
went for an iBook instead.
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