Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
General Discussions
Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
Advice needed for new mac user buying used mac laptop
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 368185" data-attributes="member: 21101"><p>I cut my teeth on a G3 700mhz iBook. I still think it's the best looking machine Apple made. You can upgrade the RAM to 640MB, which is an absolute must. I sold mine for $270, which included the RAM and an Airport card (which is rare) and a battery that held a 4 hour charge.</p><p></p><p>Panther is a good choice - way faster than Jaguar and not quite as resource hungry as Tiger - try and get one with a DVD drive if at all possible, as it'll save software woes in future.</p><p></p><p>Huge internal drive is not critical - it has firewire, so a cheap fast external drive to store photos and music is an easy option, plus you keep it for when you get a more powerful machine.</p><p></p><p>Things to look out for include:</p><p></p><p>- Screen darkening at the edges</p><p>- Missing rubber feet (you'll scratch your table!)</p><p>- Lack of Airport card might mean an expensive upgrade. An iBook without Wireless is like a bird without wings</p><p>- Someone selling the machine without Discs or Powerlead (= stolen IMO)</p><p></p><p>Now just one word of warning. You could get frustrated with the machine quite quickly, as technology has moved on a lot since 2001. Many online videos won't work, such as high resolution Flash based videos (such as on abc.com) and many heavy flash-based sites can be slow. Some iTunes videos don't work, anything in h.264 will drop frames and HD content is way out of reach.</p><p></p><p>You might not think any of that is important, but after using a Mac for a few weeks, you'll just want to see it stretch its legs. If you're confident you just want a machine to browse simple sites and write poetry, then it's fine - but don't over estimate the G3 CPU for video content.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 368185, member: 21101"] I cut my teeth on a G3 700mhz iBook. I still think it's the best looking machine Apple made. You can upgrade the RAM to 640MB, which is an absolute must. I sold mine for $270, which included the RAM and an Airport card (which is rare) and a battery that held a 4 hour charge. Panther is a good choice - way faster than Jaguar and not quite as resource hungry as Tiger - try and get one with a DVD drive if at all possible, as it'll save software woes in future. Huge internal drive is not critical - it has firewire, so a cheap fast external drive to store photos and music is an easy option, plus you keep it for when you get a more powerful machine. Things to look out for include: - Screen darkening at the edges - Missing rubber feet (you'll scratch your table!) - Lack of Airport card might mean an expensive upgrade. An iBook without Wireless is like a bird without wings - Someone selling the machine without Discs or Powerlead (= stolen IMO) Now just one word of warning. You could get frustrated with the machine quite quickly, as technology has moved on a lot since 2001. Many online videos won't work, such as high resolution Flash based videos (such as on abc.com) and many heavy flash-based sites can be slow. Some iTunes videos don't work, anything in h.264 will drop frames and HD content is way out of reach. You might not think any of that is important, but after using a Mac for a few weeks, you'll just want to see it stretch its legs. If you're confident you just want a machine to browse simple sites and write poetry, then it's fine - but don't over estimate the G3 CPU for video content. [/QUOTE]
Verification
How many occurrences of a n-u-m-b-e-r between "d" and "f" in this example...(sdgs6ngklu3gd#f9%)?
Post reply
Forums
General Discussions
Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
Advice needed for new mac user buying used mac laptop
Top
