on 03/8/19 3:27 AM, Darren at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And these newer macs..............Well? :(
Depends on what you would consider new. My B&W G3 is considered a dinosaur nowadays, but I still do a hell of a lot of stuff on it. We have these new computers running in the GHz with 64 bit processors, but all in all I don't see myself doing anything different than what I could do on my G3 (albeit a bit slower). What would a home user do with a G5? I guess there's less waiting on start up but you're still doing e-mail, word processing, some gaming (?), surfing the web, "sharing" music, etc. My low-end Mac is my very reliable IIsi. It boots up very fast, it got me through undergrad, teacher's college, my first experience with the internet (Eudora, First Class, Mosaic, Fetch, Bolo), and I even printed out my wedding invites on it using a Colour Stylewriter. This was all done from 1992 up to 1999. Only time it crashed on me was when I tried to run RAMDoubler even though it was maxed out at 65MB already (actually it booted up in 7.1 just fine, but froze certain programs -- and the About This Mac indicated I had 130MB in memory =) ). Right now it's being used in my grade 1 class running a whole gamut of educational software. The majority of people (PCer's especially) get caught up in the hype about clock speed and "better improved" CPU's. All in all their computer needs still haven't changed but for some reason they NEED to have the latest computer. My friend's son just plunked down $2000 on parts (w/o the monitor!) so he could build a P4 computer. He has a perfectly good P3 running at 800MHz. People need to stand back and ask themselves do I really need to "upgrade"? -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
