Everything is new!
A new mac, a new blog, and maybe even a few new
ideas. Who knows?
A new mac, a new blog, and maybe even a few new
ideas. Who knows?
I just recently sold my old (first) Apple Macintosh G3 500Mhz iBook. It was a great machine to get me started in the mac world! It started out with a miniscule 128MB of ram running OS 9. I eventually ended up with 640MB's of Ram, an Airport card and OS 10.3. It was a little slow at times to say the least. I eventually took the plunge, decided that I would commit to the Mac platform and sold the old iBook, saved a bit of money and bought a brand, spanking, new iBook (I would have loved a G4 Powerbook, but they are still a little out of my league!)
My new iBook is a G4 800Mhz model. Here is a picture to drool over (it is the one on the left).
It came with 256MB's of Ram, which I have since upgraded to 384MB's. It has a 30 gig hard drive (three times the size of the old girl), and still does not have an Airport extreme card. I hope to save some money in the months to come to get one. Although in the meantime I am running a pretty solid ethernet connection to my DSL router at the office.
It is amazing just what a difference there is in speed between the G3 and the G4 iBooks! I have been pleasantly surprised. I can now run VirtualPC with Windows 98, and it is almost usable! All native Mac applications, including M$ Word, run like a dream, and for the first time I have seriously considered giving up on PC's altogether. The only reason that I have kept my PC's around is to sync with my PocketPC, to be able to open the College Student Database in M$ Access, and to be able to print to Windows printers on the office's Windows network. Most of these tasks are now possible through VirtualPC, and everything else looks and feels much better on OS 10.3 on the Mac.
Who knows, perhaps I will sell off all my PC's and upgrade this iBook to a G4 Powerbook someday (I would love to have one of those sleek 17" numbers! Although, the 12" is much more my style. In the meantime I am loving the machine that I have. Let's hope that I manage to write a few good articles and books using it. After all, what good is even the best computer if it doesn't pay for itself. I tend to treat technology the way my first senior minister treated me when he said, "we only have enough money to pay you for two months, after that you'd had better preach up your own stipend". Let's hope that is surpasses all expectations! I guess that will be up to me.
I just recently sold my old (first) Apple Macintosh G3 500Mhz iBook. It was a great machine to get me started in the mac world! It started out with a miniscule 128MB of ram running OS 9. I eventually ended up with 640MB's of Ram, an Airport card and OS 10.3. It was a little slow at times to say the least. I eventually took the plunge, decided that I would commit to the Mac platform and sold the old iBook, saved a bit of money and bought a brand, spanking, new iBook (I would have loved a G4 Powerbook, but they are still a little out of my league!)
My new iBook is a G4 800Mhz model. Here is a picture to drool over (it is the one on the left).
It came with 256MB's of Ram, which I have since upgraded to 384MB's. It has a 30 gig hard drive (three times the size of the old girl), and still does not have an Airport extreme card. I hope to save some money in the months to come to get one. Although in the meantime I am running a pretty solid ethernet connection to my DSL router at the office.
It is amazing just what a difference there is in speed between the G3 and the G4 iBooks! I have been pleasantly surprised. I can now run VirtualPC with Windows 98, and it is almost usable! All native Mac applications, including M$ Word, run like a dream, and for the first time I have seriously considered giving up on PC's altogether. The only reason that I have kept my PC's around is to sync with my PocketPC, to be able to open the College Student Database in M$ Access, and to be able to print to Windows printers on the office's Windows network. Most of these tasks are now possible through VirtualPC, and everything else looks and feels much better on OS 10.3 on the Mac.
Who knows, perhaps I will sell off all my PC's and upgrade this iBook to a G4 Powerbook someday (I would love to have one of those sleek 17" numbers! Although, the 12" is much more my style. In the meantime I am loving the machine that I have. Let's hope that I manage to write a few good articles and books using it. After all, what good is even the best computer if it doesn't pay for itself. I tend to treat technology the way my first senior minister treated me when he said, "we only have enough money to pay you for two months, after that you'd had better preach up your own stipend". Let's hope that is surpasses all expectations! I guess that will be up to me.
Posted: Fri - March 19, 2004 at 03:44 PM
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