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- Beautiful PB g4 17" 1.67 PPC
Hey all, first time here, extremely informative!
First of all, I just purchased a very clean and well maintained PPC,1.67ghz. 17' Powerbook G4 from a friend who was it's only owner. I'll go ahead and tell you that I paid $350 for it which after looking around CL for a day or so, that is a fair price for where I live. Besides, he needed it and has been a good friend for a number of years, win + win. It has all the disks including OS 9 and it included CS2 and it is literally in "as new" condition. It is my second one, my first gave up the ghost in a bicycle crash 4 years ago and I have been on a number of windows machines since and have never considered myself an Apple Aficionado.
So How is it that this stunningly beautiful but 88 month old G4, with merely 512megs of RAM can seriously beat beat my windows machine sporting a dual core 2ghz processors and 4gigs of ram? I just don't understand it. My windows machine lags and hangs and takes forever to boot and shut down where the G4 is much more quick and responsive with hardly any beach balls. Why is this? Other than the video streaming being choppy, it's by far a better machine all the way around.
So again, how can this be? And will another 1.5 gigs of ram give me noticeable improvements?
Thanks so much!
First of all, I just purchased a very clean and well maintained PPC,1.67ghz. 17' Powerbook G4 from a friend who was it's only owner. I'll go ahead and tell you that I paid $350 for it which after looking around CL for a day or so, that is a fair price for where I live. Besides, he needed it and has been a good friend for a number of years, win + win. It has all the disks including OS 9 and it included CS2 and it is literally in "as new" condition. It is my second one, my first gave up the ghost in a bicycle crash 4 years ago and I have been on a number of windows machines since and have never considered myself an Apple Aficionado.
So How is it that this stunningly beautiful but 88 month old G4, with merely 512megs of RAM can seriously beat beat my windows machine sporting a dual core 2ghz processors and 4gigs of ram? I just don't understand it. My windows machine lags and hangs and takes forever to boot and shut down where the G4 is much more quick and responsive with hardly any beach balls. Why is this? Other than the video streaming being choppy, it's by far a better machine all the way around.
So again, how can this be? And will another 1.5 gigs of ram give me noticeable improvements?
Thanks so much!