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Posted: Thu Apr 19th, 2012 10:04 |
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As one of my sons stepped on his big brothers laptop, I've had to donate my laptop to the big one and I've managed to get an iBook G4 off ebay for me. Lets just hope that Apples are as good as some of you say they are.
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Posted: Thu Apr 19th, 2012 10:57 |
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That is a really old apple I hope it hasnt gone mouldy.![]()
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Posted: Thu Apr 19th, 2012 11:56 |
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jk wrote:That is a really old apple I hope it hasnt gone mouldy. Well not wishing to throw water on your parade but the G4 iBook would not be on my list. I have had two, the motherboards crack by the graphics chip. Don't pick it up by the front left corner alone, that was what I did and it cracked the motherboard. I tried three other (used) motherboards and they were all the same. Be sure to lift it at both sides with two hands. The best of that bunch was the G4 Aluminium model, the Titanium ones hinges were troublesome. I still have a G4 Al and it still works well despite having been dropped (by the previous owner).
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Posted: Thu Apr 19th, 2012 13:25 |
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didn't want to spend to much just in case I can't get on with a Mac. thanks for the tip which I'll bear in mind
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Posted: Thu Apr 19th, 2012 13:54 |
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You may be fine Andy but I felt I had to mention it. While you may be dipping your toe in the water, the current crop are totally different. Both the hardware and the software.
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Posted: Fri Apr 20th, 2012 20:11 |
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If you wait for the coming new generation MacBooks you will be able to buy one and use it for six months then sell it for very close to what you paid If you don't like it then you will have lost very little The iBook g4 is a completely different, long since deprecated, processor family stuck on an operating system several generations back In it's day this OS was great, but now.... Visit http://lowendmac.com/ for useful info on coping with a seven+ year old Mac FYI (most recent version of the iBook G4, from mactracker) Original OS Mac OS X 10.4.2 (8D37) Later OS Mac OS X 10.4.4 (8G32) Maximum OS Mac OS X 10.5.8 Processor Speed 1.33 (12.1-inch) or 1.42 (14.1-inch) GHz Number of Cores 1 Cache 64 KB L1, 512k on-chip (1:1) L2 System Bus 133 (12.1-inch) or 142 (14.1-inch) MHz Benchmarks 1.33 GHz: 689, 1.42 GHz: 774 Graphics Card ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 Graphics Memory 32 MB Hard Drive Interface Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) Note the benchmark score. Now look at the scores of The current MacBook pro below; Processor Intel Core i5 or Core i7 (2435M, 2640M) ("Sandy Bridge") Processor Speed 2.4 GHz (Core i5) or 2.8 GHz (Core i7) Architecture 64-bit Number of Cores 2 Cache 3 MB (2.4 GHz) 4 MB (2.8 GHz) shared L3 System Bus -- Benchmarks 2.4 GHz: 5912, 2.8 GHz: 7086 Good luck with it
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Posted: Sat Apr 21st, 2012 16:25 |
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Just for fun I have dug out my G4 Al 867 Mhz Powerbook. It just needed the battery charging, on start up it immediately asked for the new wifi password, within minutes I am posting here. ![]() The main problem is I can't swipe or scroll from the trackpad. :-( Oh, and iCloud doesn't work here, I had to save this site to my bookmarks nomally once I save a bookmark it propagates to all my other computers almost instantly.
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Posted: Sun Apr 22nd, 2012 04:03 |
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so there is still life in the old dog.....the laptop I mean ![]()
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Posted: Sun Apr 22nd, 2012 16:25 |
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So life still works outside the Cloud. ![]()
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Posted: Sun Apr 22nd, 2012 16:37 |
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Only just!!! I tell you, after using Mountain Lion 10.8.0 for a while (two months?) 10.5.8 is like the stone age.
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