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.
Can you go down the street now and bring home a G5? Don't think I can here yet.
My poor old 7300. Reliable, fast enough and able to fit between the imac DV and the classic and still use the devices I paid through the nose for. You getting a optimized 64 bit OS and software with that G5 or is its main use to increase the ram to wonderfully new levels. Take out IBM's proccesser's and it would almost pass for a pc motherboard. Looking forward to some real bench marking, Quake3 is a fair standard and has been for a long time. Lets not do the photoshop filter shuffle again.
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.
Still happy with the Classic, LC's Quadras ect and my 1992 amiga 030/50 running OS8.1 all useful for everyday tasks, well not so much the classic but thats just plain fun. My first internet connection was a amiga 500 (68000) running mosaic in colour of course.
One of the best things about the vintage and quadra macs is the fact they are still very useful, as OSX becomes more mature software is slowly drying up for the classic OS, I spend much more time in the internet archieve than I do on real sites now which I think is a real shame, the fact the archieve has a very small amount of sit files compared to hqx is also a limiting factor.
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"?
No arguement there but you can't tell me the Mac is not on the same path now and has been for some time. If you check the headers you'll see I mainly post from a 3 year old pc, there is no processor envy here although a cpu swap is almost due as I bearly meet the min requirements needed for new games and software now. It was the latest at one it and still does its job. Trouble with buying the latest and greatest is it doesn't last very long any more and costs a fortune, one month or 2 something is just around the corner, bigger and better.
The new pc is 18 months away, with luck things will have settled on new standards to see me through another 5 years.
$2000 on parts is more than I'd pay, if its US$ its twice as much as what I'd build a system for, he should have a screamer for that kind of money. You couldn't talk him into the G5?
I guess we are both happy with our 68k macs for what they can do and how well they still do it, I'm still finding new ways to use them and programs to run. Its just becoming harder. :(
Cheers.
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