On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:11:57 -0800 (PST), Norberto Quintanar > At what point does diagnosing an old world mac cost too much to fix? > Cost of hardware and software aside, what value does one put on their > time to accomplish such an undertaking? Plus he's already ordered a > mac mini @ 499 + S/H. Depending on the market, that's one to two > days of work for me. Getting an old world mac to work with 4.0 could > easily take that much time if not more. Terrasoft's decision not to > support OWM's was cost effective. And to top it off, 3.0 runs better > on OWM's anyway. I applaud Geert's decision to buy a new machine and > retire his 8 year old work horse.
I guess it depends on why you want to get the OWM working. If it's for sport or learning, then that OWM is worth its weight in gold. You can't get a better education than getting something working that requires a lot of effort, even if you're helped along the way by other's help. If doing it to save money because you don't have any, then, that's also pretty cut & dry. If all a computer is to you is a tool and you've got the money and are willing to spend it but are going OWM b/c you think you'll save a penny, then it's dependent on how you value your time. I stick with slower hardware b/c I don't need anything faster. At home I browse the web, word process and Excel (there just ain't a better spreadsheet). I can do that nearly as quickly on my PB G3/400 as on my PIV 3GHz Win XP Pro machine at work. What I can't and don't need to do at home is operate on a database with thousands of records... (though, I wish that one of the secure DB servers was running on faster hardware... they still use an OS that was already OLD news in 1989 and I have the strange feeling that they're running it on a relatively slow (by today's standards) mainframe!!) Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
