Post #80,173
2/7/03 2:19:43 PM
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It is official.
As soon as our house in Raleigh is sold, and things have calmed down up here, I'm buying a tricked-out Powerbook. I can't resist. It's too shiny and it has all the software I need to do the things I do -- writing, drawing, and recording music.
So I've decided, it's going to happen. Sometime next month, I think, and then 6-8 weeks later...
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
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Post #80,185
2/7/03 3:42:35 PM
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cool!
I've been eyeing the 17" iMac. I noticed it recently got a price drop AND a speed boost.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #80,187
2/7/03 3:47:07 PM
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Same thing happened to the..
...dual processor G4 machines...couple hundred extra without the monitor...but quite a performer.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #80,198
2/7/03 4:11:31 PM
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Plan to take the plunge this year
was going to use my tax refund for it but was just informed that the temporary pay cut is being reinstated:-(
Don't know all the details yet, but I do know our biggest customer had more layoffs and will be shutting down for a week in February and another week in March.
So, the iMac purchase gets delayed yet again. At the rate I'm going they'll be 21" running at 2GHz before I get one.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #80,186
2/7/03 3:45:04 PM
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Which size? 17"
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Post #80,194
2/7/03 4:03:05 PM
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Yes indeedy, 17" it is
I figure if I'm going to buy this thing, I need to go all out. So 17" screen, 1 gig ram, and their uber AirPort with the antennae that lets you wander out into the backyard while surfing the net...
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
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Post #80,263
2/7/03 9:17:03 PM
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I'm green w/envy
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Post #80,349
2/8/03 6:24:41 PM
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Well, I don't have it *yet*
and plenty of things could happen between now and when I order it to delay the blessed event. So don't break out the tint just yet. :)
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
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Post #80,415
2/9/03 2:10:08 PM
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Sure, go ahead and shatter my illusions with reality ;-)
I'll be sticking with my 667 G4 tower for the time being. I'd love to get a Powerbook, but I can't justify the expense. Of course, if you have any guaranteed winning lottery numbers you'd like to share, I could...
Brian Bronson
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Post #80,197
2/7/03 4:08:42 PM
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Dunna fer get this:
[link|http://fink.sourceforge.net/|Fink you very much!!!]
And all while you were sleeping!
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Post #80,200
2/7/03 4:13:49 PM
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Re: Dunna fer get this:
*Cool.* apt-get for OSX...
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
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Post #80,354
2/8/03 7:07:38 PM
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us too
Getting the wife an iBook. Her work has a no-interest loan for computers that you pay back over a year vi payroll deduction. We're goin to the local Apple Store tomorrow :)
Next will be iMac for the kiddo then hopefully a top of the line powerbook for me :)
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Steve
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Post #80,796
2/10/03 10:06:57 PM
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May I weigh in here...
to announce the recent acquisition of a used machine?
It's a B&W tower (I've used one at work for, geez, four years this May, and it's been a warhorse) tricked out w/1GB RAM and a 500mhz G4 upgrade card. A SCSI card permits the use of my legacy storage devices (a Zip 250 and a Fujitsu 640SE magneto-optical drives), and an obscure orphaned "Dayna EtherPrint-T" box permits my trust HP LaserJet 6MP to talk to the tower. I've upgraded from one of the more obscure Mac models, the G3 AIO (a heroic, albeit lavishly ugly machine--think of the original Mac form factor injected with growth hormones and styled by the chap who prepared Karloff for camera in 1931), and am using OS X day-to-day for the first time. If I can get the USB scanner to speak to the system and get the ethernet router to get past the PPPoE my service provider appears to require...why, then, I'll be a happy camper.
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #80,936
2/11/03 12:19:39 PM
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I had to find a picture
And guess what they called it? [link|http://www.wap.org/journal/molarmac/|The Fast, Heavy, Beauty Challenged AIO] The only thing uglier than the front is the back. (Scroll down)
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Post #81,073
2/12/03 1:27:30 AM
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the pictures don't do it justice
...'cause it's a really, really ugly box--ugly enough that one's aesthetic meters reset themselves. Because it seemed like a "Bizarro" prototype for the original iMac, I glued a glass eye above the screen and dubbed it "eyeMac."
This being said, it was the best Mac, in terms of price/performance, I've ever owned up until now. Mac #1 was the original 128K model, purchased 09/84 for $2500, subsequently tricked out with a $700 10MB HD. Mac #2 was a IIx with 1MB RAM (later 5MB) and a 20MB HD (later 155MB), purchased 06/90 for $2300. Mac #3 was a PowerBase180 clone (180mhz PPC 603e) with 24MB RAM and a 1.2GB HD, purchased 12/96 for $1600. The AIO was purchased in mid-2000 for $500 with a G3 400mhz upgrade card already installed and 80MB RAM. I ramped that up to 384MB RAM, added a USB/Firewire card (supplementing the serial/SCSI/ADB outputs), replaced the 6GB HD (and burnt-out internal Zip drive) with two internal HDs adding up to 50GB, and installed a video card that supported a flat-panel 1280x1024 display alongside the AIO's built-in 1024x768 screen--yielding me more pixel real estate than the original Aple Cinema Display. The AIO functioned heroically until an ill-advised upgrade to OS 9.2.2 several months back: ths proved disastrous, and a reinstall of 9.2.1 never quite served to retrieve the original system stability.
I'm committed now to the new machine and to OS X, but ugly old AIO will remain my fondest memory of Macs to date. I'm exerting great effort to secure for it a more honorable retirement than the 128K (in the basement), the IIx (dropped off the stern of the SF-to-Larkspur ferry ca. 3/97) or the PowerBase 180 (stashed next to my bookcase here).
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #81,100
2/12/03 8:04:19 AM
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So was that intentional?
the IIx (dropped off the stern of the SF-to-Larkspur ferry ca. 3/97) Or did you just forget to tie off the anchor chain before heaving it? ===
Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
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Post #81,166
2/12/03 12:15:31 PM
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Re: So was that intentional?
Burial at sea. I probably oughtn't have done it, but it was a satisfyingly extravagant gesture at the time.
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #81,124
2/12/03 10:22:04 AM
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Bahaha....
The floppy slots as eyes... the thing below (whatever that is... cd?) as mouth...
That box has a serious case of constipation... its head is about ready to explode.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #81,126
2/12/03 10:24:49 AM
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That's it!
There's some cartoon with a robot character that looks just like that. What the hell is that ...
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