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Tag Archives: os-x
Reviving Old Computers (PowerBook G4)
I have this old Apple PowerBook G4, with a 867MHZ PowerPC CPU. It’s one of the first Apple aluminum laptops from several years back. This one came with OS-X 10.2 Panther OS installed. By default it came with 256 MB of RAM and a 40 GIG hard drive. Not bad for the times.
My son [...]
A Windows guru spends two weeks with a Mac
For PC users, Mac OS X takes some getting used to, but once I did, I found it a more elegant, polished piece of work than Windows (either XP or Vista). With so many nice little touches, it seemed as if I was finding a new one every day.
At first glance, the Mac OS X [...]
Microsoft ads continue to defy logic
There is a big difference between the price of purchasing a computer and the cost of owning one. That’s a distinction that Microsoft carefully dodges in its latest round of commercials, but I don’t think Microsoft is fooling many people (except maybe analyst Roger Kay, but that’s another story). Apple has even seen fit to [...]
Upgrading PowerBook G4 hard-drive, avoiding obsolescence!
While Apple may have discontinued support for the lowly Powerbook G4, mine still has some life in it. In fact I have two Powerbook G4 laptops, a 15″ and a 12″. The hard drive stopped spinning up on my 15″ and so I have replaced the harddrive with a new Western Digital Scorpio 250GIG drive. [...]