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Look at my new pet, ah, 400MHz G4 Mac that I got from the pound, ah, computer recycler.





I know some of you know I said I would never buy a new Mac. Well it is not new and I didn't pay a cent for it either. I was a barter deal. I just have to check and test about 100 9GB SCSI drives and its mine. It also has an older sibling that is a 400MHz Blue and White G3 Server. And it looks like there may be more family memebers coming as well. I might end up being a used Mac wholesaler if this keeps up. The guy I am working with on this wants me to take all his Mac stuff away and the new Macs as they come down the line. I have to pick-up about 7 iMacs sometime this week and see what I can do with them. Hopefully I can find homes for all these little guys.

Don.

Don. Edwards wrote:I have to pick-up about 7 iMacs sometime this week and see what I can do with them. Hopefully I can find homes for all these little guys.

Don.

I wish I could say "ship 'em here Don", we can always use them at my school. But I know that is prohibitively expensive. You should give them to a local school, group or maybe a senior center...

Next time your guy throw away some double G5, I'll take one!!

I prefer my good old windows XP and 98.

Well I have a fairly advanced PC and XP. This machine is for fun and hopefully for future testing of some of my textures in the OS X environment when I get it a more capable video card. Besides OS X is more advanced OS than Win98 or even XP at this point. And from my experiences with Vista, OS X is still better designed.

Don.

i prefer windows 2000 pro, in my 2.0 P4 with 256 mb ram, eventhough it sometimes stucks celestia, but i have conquered my OS with a MCP certification in it and know how to make most out of the hardware by tweaking the win2000


Don. Edwards, that mac looks cool

Actualy the picture makes it look allot better than it really does. The sides are very scatched and there are a few crackes in the polycorbanate shell here and there. I have and extra G3 blue and white case that is empty and seriously considering putting a PC motherboard into it just for fun.

As for using Win2000 Pro, good luck. It is so full of security holes that Microsoft has all but given up on it. I know that there are allot of people and companies that still use it, mostly out of not wanting to pay to upgrade to XP, but I can't tell you how many computers that I have fix that have Win2k or even Win NT 4 on them and they are security issue related. Trust me if you really wanted to use XP on your machine you could. It is just not a security issue but drivers and other hardware support that will soon be dissapearing for Win2k as it is for Win98 and ME. If your of the school of users that simply hate the look of XP, please get over it already. XP can be made to look and run just like Win2k and it actualy runs faster that way. That brings up another topic, XP is simply faster and more efficient when dealling with programs than Win2k ever was. Trust me on this, even with all the tweaks you are talking about XP is by far a much more stable, robust, and secure a platform to be using. Of course it always comes down to dollars. If you don't want to spend the money for XP and for upgrading your computer be my guest. But please relize you are using a nearly 6 year old operating system that is for the most part not even getting any support from it maker anymore. I think it time for some upgrades.

Don.

Is that the linux penguin on top of the computer monitor?

I used to have a 2000 during a time I call "The Attack Of The Evil, Sucky, Full Of Poo Computers From Hell", which happened after my very awesome 98's power thingy blew up (I'm not kidding, it blew up for no reason, not a big explosion but somewhere between someone sighing loudly and a 'pop') and it's C drive subsequently died. So then my dad who works at a computer company would bring home computers that the company didn't want anymore and he let me test them out, and all of them stunk. The Windows 2000 that I had could not play any game without making atleast 1 error that could not be fixed. It sucked bad. Eventually though, I got this XP that finally matched the quality of my old '98. Although, there are a few programs which will not run on a XP not matter what compatibility settings you set so as soon as my mom switched to a XP I took over her old 98 and have got it sitting by my XP. Besides, I had lotsa files on that 98 so I had to have it eventually.

I've never had a macintosh but I've seen how it works and I don't like it. And most cd games are for windows anways.

I think windows is better. (How do you make that emoticon with Spock?)

Yes that is the Linux Penguin!




But dressed just a little out os season.

Don.

Looks like that hat isn't attached.