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How Old is your Current System?

RacerX said:
The PowerBook G3 that I use for almost everything was originally made back in September 1998, so it is about 7 years and two months old. When it originally shipped it had a G3 processor running at 266 MHz (with 1 MB of L2 Cache), 64 MB of RAM, a 4 GB hard drive and a CD-ROM drive. Currently it has a G4 processor at 500 Mhz (with 1 MB of L2 Cache), 512 MB of RAM, a 40 GB (internal) and 20 GB (expansion bay) hard drives, a CDRW drive (other expansion bay) and a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card.

Even at more than 7 years old this system is still letting me be very productive and I have no complaints... and no good reasons to justify paying for a newer system.
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That's really amazing...see Apple should use stories like these as reasons why you should buy a Mac. How many 7-year-old PC laptops do you think are still out there being productive? We've got laptops at work that are only 3 years old and can barely do what we need them to do!
 
evil_santa said:
iBook 300mhz Clamshell October 1999, Still use it every day. Only had to replace the battery once & power supply.

G4 733mhz March 2001

G5 D2.7ghz April 2005

Might get a new ibook next year when the intel ones come out;)
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with a dual g5 powermac, how do you stand to use a 300 mhz ibook every day?...i use my ibook only for legacy programs if i have to but my dual g4 powermac makes it really hard to tolerate a single g3 processor...call me spoiled and if i had a dual g5 powermac, i would then rarely boot up my dual g4 powermac since i assume it's that much faster again
 
My macs are both from like 1997, but they haven't been upgraded, and so I don't use them very much. The IBM 390X is from 98 it has been upgraded, but it still can't run windows smoothly. Emachines running Linux is also from 98 and it runs linux fine. This machine on my desk now is a Homebrew linux box, last upgraded in August 2004. Runs great with SuSe linux.
 
My iBook G3 - April 2000,
My iMac G3 - July 2003,
My PowerMac G5 - December 2003,
My iBook G4 - August 2005.

The iBook G4 is actually a decrease in speed and screen size, something I vowed i'd never do after my iBook G3 (because although it was and still is a fantastic machine, it was quickly unable to play anything a lot of apps, as AltiVec made its presence and the screen size was appauling). However, I love this iBook and couldn't think of a better machine to take to uni with me! Mum has said she'll buy it off me (as i bought it myself) as soon as possible... in other words i'll be getting an intel ibook as soon as they're on the market.

Can't wait! Innit!
 
my PowerBook was bought after the Rev D rollouts in Jan/Feb. it arrived Feb.

my laptop almost 2 years old and its very powerful still. of course it has the wrong OS on it but its a 3ghz beast.

my desktop is very old. about 4 years old, maybe more. Its a P4 2Ghz so its not extremely fast but it feels a behemoth. it feels extremely powerful. god i love desktop P4's. it has 512mb Ram and a Radeon 9600pro pushing images to a new 19" Philips monitor. its using a set of speakers we bought back in 1998 for our 2nd computer which have an amazing sound. we only paid about £60 for them too.

NOW! the other desktop is a P3 500mhz machine. extremely slow but I wouldn't get rid of it for the world! running a Geforce 2 Ti that had to be overclocked to run UT2003!
 
Tibook 400mhz purchased new 8/2/01 almost four and a half years old and still running -- ram upgrade,
hd replacement
Daystar CPU upgrade to 550mhz
Soon to upgrade to Tiger
Running like a champ.

iMac 500 G3 purchased new 02/02/02. three and a half years old
Upgraded ram to 1gig,
Replaced hd to 80gig 7200rpm Deskstar
Panther 10.3.9
Champion desktop machine. Will run for another two to three years at least, may or may not switch to Tiger

iBooks 1.33ghz 12" build date Sept .05 Tiger but no widgets/dashboard yet
iBook 1.42ghz buld date Oct. 05 Tiger no widgets/dashboard yet
iBook 1.07 12" purchased May 04 Panther
 
2/2002-present (almost 4 years)

PowerMac G4 Dual 1Ghz
1 Gig Ram (getting really slow now, since it's 133mhz)
80 GIG HD + 120 GIG Western Digital HD
upgraded ATI 9800 Pro 128mb GFX card
upgraded pioneer 16x dual layer DVD-RW burner

everything on this machine runs very smoothly, even FCP 4.5HD
but, when i'm working in illustrator CS2, with a lot of vector points...manipulating the image can be a PITA. I guess, the insufficient Bus speed, the over all CPU speed is just not enough anymore for intense workloads. I'm hoping to upgrade to a Quad next year.
 
Powerbook G4 800mhz 1gb ram - October 2002
iMac G5 2.0ghz 1.5gb ram - August 2005

The Powerbook probably gets just as much use daily in my law classes as the iMac does. They are both still beautiful.
 
Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz (June 2004)

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My newest, most current system is my PowerBook G4 12" 867mhz (Rev A). It's a good machine but, I'm holding out for the intel Macs before I upgrade so this little PowerBook will have to last me until then. I got the PowerBook for around $1,300, DVD-R, Bluetooth, AirPort Extreme, 640mb RAM, 40gb HD, the works in late September 2004. By then the newer 1ghz models came out which made my PowerBook cheaper.

It's been a long time since I've had this little PowerBook, he has a few small dents and marks and the hindge hook to keep the screen closed has snapped off. I guess I use it a little too much haha. The machine is great, it's just that the graphics card and processor can be a bit faster and are a little slow for today's applications, especially since I'm a graphic artist...Plus the hard drive is a bit slow, only 4200rpm.

Oh well, let's see what January brings us! :D
 
RacerX said:
The PowerBook G3 that I use for almost everything was originally made back in September 1998, so it is about 7 years and two months old. When it originally shipped it had a G3 processor running at 266 MHz (with 1 MB of L2 Cache), 64 MB of RAM, a 4 GB hard drive and a CD-ROM drive. Currently it has a G4 processor at 500 Mhz (with 1 MB of L2 Cache), 512 MB of RAM, a 40 GB (internal) and 20 GB (expansion bay) hard drives, a CDRW drive (other expansion bay) and a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card.

Even at more than 7 years old this system is still letting me be very productive and I have no complaints... and no good reasons to justify paying for a newer system.
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::raises hand::

That would also describe mine, except that mine was born as a 300, I'm running dual 7200 RPM 60 gig drives in mine now (nice & fast!) and I have a VillageTronic PCMCIA card that lets me run a 20" Sony Trinitron at the office as primary screen and delegate the TFT to auxiliary use. I think I'm on the verge of finally retiring it in favor of a 17" G4 PB in early January, because the 10-base-T is killing me at the office, but aside from that, yeah, what RacerX said. This has been one truly excellent Mac.
 

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PM rev. A dual 2.0 is 14 months old...in its second year i will put in a better graphics card (OEM 9600 radeon at the moment), add another 250 drive to my internal RAID configuration to bring it to 1 TB while making the boot drive a 74GB raptor. this should last me for a long time...another 2GB of ram might also be added, depending on how much RAM aperture eats.

my 1 GHz G4 ibook is 15 months old...just increased to 1.2GB ram...can't do much more other than to add a superdrive and possibly a faster hard drive (have 80gb 5400 rpm at the moment).
 
i wanted so much to upgrade laptops and desktops i have had over the years but i would always find great deals on new systems and it always ended up cheaper buying a new system than upgrading the processor, ram, and video card (for a desktop)

i wanted to get deeper than being a pc and mac techie so i got into this phd program in computer engineering at the university of california but after sitting in class and seeing all the "theory" and unrelated stuff i had to go through over sixty months, i realized that it was easier, cheaper, and more practical to go the old path of buying a new system every time i needed to :)

i knew one upgrader who got a dual ee and el degrees and used his knowledge to upgrade systems with a soldering iron, jewelers loops (or something like it but hundreds of times more powerful), and a steady hand to upgrade his computers by changing the bus speed and soldering in new laptop processors using the solder/tape insert process...crazy stuff but he was obsessed even more than me

it's amazing how much could be upgraded assuming you have the knowledge, money, time, and tools to do it...on steve wozniak's site, there was this one super modder who put the guts of a g3 imac into a 24" inch beige crt to make a large, ugly imac...he he...to each his own, i guess
 
ahunter3 said:
...and I have a VillageTronic PCMCIA card that lets me run a 20" Sony Trinitron at the office as primary screen and delegate the TFT to auxiliary use.
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That sounds great! I'll have to look into that... that could extend the life of mine by quite a bit. Screen real-estate is the biggest draw back for me. I always feel a little cramped on my PowerBook after I spend time on my 8600/300 (which has two displays).
 
My current system is exactly... let's see 10/22/05... its 11/28/05... 1 month and 6 days and... my dad bought it for me at 12:25PM and its 8:34PM so 8 hours and 9 minutes old
 
Rev A 15 PowerBook, I have no desire (or funds) to upgrade anytime soon. But I put in a faster HD, and will be getting the DayStar CPU upgrade! That should last me for awhile...
 
Six months... and I'm waiting for the Intel boxes. When they come, I upgrade.

Dual 2 GHz
Dual 400GB drives
4 GB Ram
ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256MB
20" display

(Ignore that Sony Vaio in the corner)
 
Les Kern said:
Six months... and I'm waiting for the Intel boxes. When they come, I upgrade.

Dual 2 GHz
Dual 400GB drives
4 GB Ram
ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256MB
20" display

(Ignore that Sony Vaio in the corner)
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What kind of certification book is that on your desk. I assume that's what it is considering the ones that I've seen that are official look exactly like that.
 
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