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dpaanlka
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on: June 05, 2007, 04:09
Well now that I'm at home, I don't have to rely on my PowerBook Duo 2300c for System 7 Today work. As reliable as it is, it's pretty limiting. So now I'm up and running on a Power Mac 8600/200, with 512mb of RAM, a 9gb 10,000rpm hard drive, and a Radeon 7000. This is pretty much the same system I used to run with a G4, but my OWC memory is super unreliable with the G4. So that will have to wait until I get new memory. But all in all, it's pretty exciting! Very fast! |
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Minimalist
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128 MB Posts: 186
Reply #1 on: July 06, 2007, 21:14
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I'm just getting back into the System 7 groove as well. I'm using a PowerMac 7200/90 with 32 megabytes of RAM and a 1 gigabyte harddrive. A pretty limited system, but with System 7.6.1 and Corel WordPerfect 3.5 it makes for a comfortable and snappy word processing machine. This is not a great machine for surfing the web, but for word processing and sending faxes, it's ideal. Corel Word Perfect 3.5 running in System 7.6 is very responsive and quick. The best part of it is that System 7 doesn't have all of the doodads and eye candy of newer stuff, so there's very little to distract me. I should be able to get some serious work done on this machine.
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sierraredd
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128 MB Posts: 212
Reply #2 on: July 07, 2007, 04:41
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Fun with the classics. I was recently invited to a grand opening of a nationally known restaurant chain, where they were experimenting with wifi as a tool to encourage business people to have meeting and lunch. The game nerds have staked tuesday nights. So there were all these people with the various pc laptops, macbooks, ibooks and me, with my basic other 1400cs, 166, 48meg ram, 3.2 gig hdd, running 7.6.1 and zipping right along with my new orinoco gold card. It's truely amazing that people can't belive something that old works that well. Most of the night I heard people saying they wouldn't keep something obsolete. I tell them everything I do on my 1400 I do on my mini at home. I love my powerbooks.
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wall
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256 MB Posts: 343
Reply #3 on: July 14, 2007, 02:32
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People tend to go with the crowd, even when an equal solution is just around a corner. It will be your time to smile, when one of them will be without e-mail, banking etc when his shiny laptop is in for a service for a week. Or two. You will eat your lunch in peace, while he will drive to the otherside of the town to pickup the pc, which is probably not ready. On the otherhand, from your posts I have learned that you have a backup of a backup mac, and can repair your soft- and hardware problems yourself. My friend had a brand new Acer in a workshop twice, then they gave a new one, with a new problem :grin: . In here where I live, one needs internet for everything: banking, tickets, library,job search, shopping,studying. Everything. He wasn't a happy camper.
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