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Hornnumb2

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Jan 26, 2010
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Forgive me if this is a stupid question but I am new to owning a mac, I just bought a 1.67 17" powerbook and was wondering what the max specs are for it? Max size harddrive, ram, os that it will support. Thanks Michael
 

moel

macrumors 6502
Nov 7, 2007
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Sorry....powerbook?!? As in you just bought a powerpc machine.....

I believe it'll be either 2 or 4gb of RAM, HD as big as you like as long as it's IDE 2.5" and the last OS you can put on it is 10.5.9

Bad choice of purchase in my opinion....you've basically bought an obsolete machine in a phase of life where apps either are being or already have been translated to intel only rather than 'universal' with the introduction of snow leopard and true 64 bit computing :s

Sorry :(
 

LastZion

macrumors 6502a
Apr 13, 2006
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Sorry....powerbook?!? As in you just bought a powerpc machine.....

I believe it'll be either 2 or 4gb of RAM, HD as big as you like as long as it's IDE 2.5" and the last OS you can put on it is 10.5.9

Bad choice of purchase in my opinion....you've basically bought an obsolete machine in a phase of life where apps either are being or already have been translated to intel only rather than 'universal' with the introduction of snow leopard and true 64 bit computing :s

Sorry :(

Maybe he got it for real cheap, not a bad machine for cheap to watch movies on check email... etc
 

moel

macrumors 6502
Nov 7, 2007
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If he paid more than $600 or £250 he got diddled in my humble opinion!
 

Hornnumb2

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jan 26, 2010
5
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Sorry....powerbook?!? As in you just bought a powerpc machine.....

I believe it'll be either 2 or 4gb of RAM, HD as big as you like as long as it's IDE 2.5" and the last OS you can put on it is 10.5.9

Bad choice of purchase in my opinion....you've basically bought an obsolete machine in a phase of life where apps either are being or already have been translated to intel only rather than 'universal' with the introduction of snow leopard and true 64 bit computing :s

Sorry :(

Sorry but everybody can't go spend $2000 on the latest mac, this will be my first and not sure if I will any like the os. Michael
 

moel

macrumors 6502
Nov 7, 2007
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No thats fair enough...but feel it's only fair you should be aware that you've bought a machine that has maybe a year or so's life in it.

It's still fine for doing every day tasks on it, just don't expect the latest versions of Final cut studio to run on it.

(and also expect flash to be cripplingly slow in a year or so's time)
 
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