>The current thing seems to be disposing of G3 stock that is no longer >'useable' becuase OS X has moved on so far that it's not percieved to >really any longer feasible to use it day in day out on a G3 machine. >In the dumpster with it all... > >In my opinion it's sick, and stupid. There are people out there who >don't have a computer, and want one but don't have the cash. Give >them a nice shiny G3 B&W with a 10GB hard disk and OS 9.2, Eudora and >a copy of AppleWorks 6 and they are set to go. Some people simply >don't NEED power. The trouble is no-one takes the time to think about >it cause it doesn't make money, or so they think... > >As for the old 68ks, I'm sure many a person here will tell you many >of them are as good for e-mail and word processing stuff as any G5 >supercomputer, after all the limiting factor is not the machine when >typing it's the users fingers and brain :o) > >-- >Mark Benson
I'm running 10.3 on a PowerBook Lombard @ 333 mhz and it seems fast enough, also a G3 450 B&W and it seems fine too. In fact OSX boots up faster on these two older Macs than my G4 450 running 9.2.1. One of the bigger used computer shops here in Toronto just adjusted their used price list downwards and I wonder if that is a result of the Mac Mini driving used prices down. If these are only $400 computers now what would they be worth in 4-5 years at the rate of depreciation we see on 4-5 year old computers now. http://www.cpused.com/pricelists_www/framed.html B&W's on eBay are under $100 us from what I see though those might be rev A's. At these rates I think we'll upgrade a friend of ours who's a writer. Up until last fall he was using a backlit Mac Portable because it has a fullsize keyboard and nice screen. It finally got unreliable and I ran out of spare parts to keep it going so it was retired and replaced with an SE/30 which he likes other than the screen which isn't as big. For Christmas maybe we'll upgrade him to a PowerBook 520c which I was given and am fixing up. He doesn't want anything fancy......the colour screen might be too much of a shock for him come to think of it. We replaced our G4's at work with G5's recently and honestly I can't say there is a huge speed difference or advantage but then we work with fairly small picture files. The only reason we made the swap was some odd corporate mandate that had to be fullfilled, maybe just that the G4's were too old.....which is dumb since they work just fine for what we need to do. We haven't fully switched over yet because we are having issues with QuarkXPress on the G5's, have to admit I don't like OSX much from the standpoint of having to find all the hidden files that only the root user has access to. I'm not a hater of progress I just wonder if all this speed is really nessessary as well. Speaking of which, we are having a lot of problems with Photoshop on the G5's, the mice/cursors are really twitchy and it's become a really hassle to use them to make selections on photos because the mouse responds too quickly even with the speed dialed right down. Kevin > -- 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/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
