It's here!
I had some issues getting the courier to my house, so I biked up to their central depot to pick it up, strapped it to the bike rack, and rode home with it and a grin ear to ear. It's in great shape! The power adapter is brand new (and it's the YoYo), the white top part could use some polish, but I don't mind giving it some love. No weird noises, everything accounted for, and as expected in terms of what came with it (G3 @ 466Mhz, 576Mb of memory, 10Gb HD, AirPort).
I'll post pics in a bit. First impressions are, wow, it's big for what it is isn't it? Despite the 12" screen, it's easily bigger than the MacBook. The rubber/shiny white plastic with textured interior white plastics is awesome to look at and to hold. The handle is cool, and the Power button is much easier to use (my opinion) because it's bigger! They made the ones on the new MacBooks so tiny! The AirPort works perfect with the Extreme base station I have (newest Dual N variety), and isn't actually that slow (download speeds of 160-200kbps, which five years ago I considered screamingly fast when I switched from dial-up to ADSL).
One of my caveats so far is the hard drive. It definitely needs to go. Id forgotten exactly how slow a 4200rpm hard drive is, and what's worse, you can hear it doing it's thing in the next room. It also occasionally makes really harsh-sounding ticks while it's accessing. So it's on it's last leg, I think, but that's not really something you can fault a hard drive that's 10 years old for. The question will be do I get a 5400rpm drive, or hang the expense and get an SSE.
I just finished the system updates, and will be playing with it most of the day, I'd wager. Very happy about my purchase. Let's hope it lasts.
I had some issues getting the courier to my house, so I biked up to their central depot to pick it up, strapped it to the bike rack, and rode home with it and a grin ear to ear. It's in great shape! The power adapter is brand new (and it's the YoYo), the white top part could use some polish, but I don't mind giving it some love. No weird noises, everything accounted for, and as expected in terms of what came with it (G3 @ 466Mhz, 576Mb of memory, 10Gb HD, AirPort).
I'll post pics in a bit. First impressions are, wow, it's big for what it is isn't it? Despite the 12" screen, it's easily bigger than the MacBook. The rubber/shiny white plastic with textured interior white plastics is awesome to look at and to hold. The handle is cool, and the Power button is much easier to use (my opinion) because it's bigger! They made the ones on the new MacBooks so tiny! The AirPort works perfect with the Extreme base station I have (newest Dual N variety), and isn't actually that slow (download speeds of 160-200kbps, which five years ago I considered screamingly fast when I switched from dial-up to ADSL).
One of my caveats so far is the hard drive. It definitely needs to go. Id forgotten exactly how slow a 4200rpm hard drive is, and what's worse, you can hear it doing it's thing in the next room. It also occasionally makes really harsh-sounding ticks while it's accessing. So it's on it's last leg, I think, but that's not really something you can fault a hard drive that's 10 years old for. The question will be do I get a 5400rpm drive, or hang the expense and get an SSE.
I just finished the system updates, and will be playing with it most of the day, I'd wager. Very happy about my purchase. Let's hope it lasts.
Pics to follow.