finally the tiger roars...
...on my good old Powerbook G3 Wallstreet (1.edition) ;-)
Yesterday, my crusty but trusty Wallstreet (1998 ed.) was finally upgraded from Panther to Tiger and from 20GB to 80GB in one go!
After I had dodged this step for months now, although it was inevitable to enable me to sync with my desktop (iMac G5) in every respect, I decided to give it a go, and here we are (that is, me and my BOOK ;-)
Admittedly this was achieved after some (cheap!) upgrades had already been installed earlier to make Panther run smoother on the 6-year-old hardware, i.e. new G4 processor card and more RAM. I also bought a few peripherals to get if not up to date so at least on the level that I need to use on a daily basis.
So I got a USB CardBus card, a FW and a Wireless (802.11b) card, a BT dongle, and finally a DVD drive to finish things. All for the total investment of ca. 250 (okay, maybe a few more) bucks.
My brother (yo, pete!) just invested in a brand-new Pb 12" as he got tired to tinker with his slightly newer Lombard powerbook that started to get old (well, REALLY old as in "several years" not like "last year's rev.)
And what does Apple do immediately afterwards: announce the next generation (duh...)
I must say that I will await this "one more thing" event (get a new line, Steve!) with a wide grin and a t-shirt:
"hardware from 1998 (500$). upgrades for 250$(ebay). Runs Tiger. Any questions?"
Yesterday, my crusty but trusty Wallstreet (1998 ed.) was finally upgraded from Panther to Tiger and from 20GB to 80GB in one go!
After I had dodged this step for months now, although it was inevitable to enable me to sync with my desktop (iMac G5) in every respect, I decided to give it a go, and here we are (that is, me and my BOOK ;-)
Admittedly this was achieved after some (cheap!) upgrades had already been installed earlier to make Panther run smoother on the 6-year-old hardware, i.e. new G4 processor card and more RAM. I also bought a few peripherals to get if not up to date so at least on the level that I need to use on a daily basis.
So I got a USB CardBus card, a FW and a Wireless (802.11b) card, a BT dongle, and finally a DVD drive to finish things. All for the total investment of ca. 250 (okay, maybe a few more) bucks.
My brother (yo, pete!) just invested in a brand-new Pb 12" as he got tired to tinker with his slightly newer Lombard powerbook that started to get old (well, REALLY old as in "several years" not like "last year's rev.)
And what does Apple do immediately afterwards: announce the next generation (duh...)
I must say that I will await this "one more thing" event (get a new line, Steve!) with a wide grin and a t-shirt:
"hardware from 1998 (500$). upgrades for 250$(ebay). Runs Tiger. Any questions?"
Labels: Cult of Mac, News
posted by leptonyx at 16:33
1 Comments:
well, I still have and use the lombard to email and write at home, and its screen is nice too. I like the feel of it, and I look forward to making a final backup of all the stuff that needs to be read through SCSI or lives on real OS9 (not classic). but for teaching and traveling, the lombard is too slow and too heavy.
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