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Is it really Mr. Smith, "ItsMyNaturalColour"? I emailed you a while ago regarding the guides on improving that G5 studio setup. Welcome to the forums!
I've been doing everything on my PowerBook since Thursday and it has all been fine, though slower than my T42. The only thing I couldn't do is YouTube ever since Minitube broke. Firefox simply cannot play YouTube videos. I did write a long paper filled with research and had no problems viewing multiple PDFs while writing in Abiword and browsing with Firefox.
Is there a reason you use Firefox instead of TenFourFox? I am shocked you run a T42 as a daily driver. In my workload, sometimes even a T400 feels underpowered. What are the specs on your T42? They are really great computers!
Yes, true, but still, you can do more with Leopard than Tiger. Even though Tiger may be better than Leopard in every other way, Leopard is still the best "functionality wise".
BUT... What about Classic? Leopard can't run classic. But Leopard can run newer software. Hmm... tricky.
I'm using Firefox because I'm running OpenBSD on it (and on all my other laptops as well).
My T42 is nothing special spec wise. It has the 1.7 GHz Pentium M, ATI Radeon 7500, 1024x768 display, and 1.5GB of RAM. The keyboard is absolutely the best I have ever used on a laptop. I said that about my T60 when I got it, but this is even better. I use spectrwm as a window manager, so it takes up very little resources and the computer is very responsive. I run spectrwm on the PowerBook as well and couldn't be happier with it. My uses are fairly basic and the T42 handles them fine. I have a 2010 X201 that rarely gets used because I like this so much better.
I thought you were running OS X on the PowerBook which is why I asked. The T42 has such great build quality and a fantastic keyboard. It was also the last true IBM machine! The T43s were after the Lenovo takeover.
At my school, they have the Lenovo Thinkpads. There are a few types but the worst by far is the X130e. The trackpad rounds off at the edge of the palmrest, closer to the keyboard, which makes the tracking area much smaller. We had to use those trackpads to take our online state assessments, but for the second test we had the Yoga Thinkpads and I tried to use two finger scrolling and it kicked me out of the test
. The original Thinkpads were so much better, one of my younger brother's friends recieved an older T41 from his dad and I got it running for him, but he has since upgraded to a newer Asus laptop.
I know the proposed challenge will be primarily for PPC Macs, but is there any chance we could extend it to old iDevices, too? It could be the "hard mode" version of this challenge :3
I'm curious because I'm currently rocking a 64GB 1st gen iPad, and aside from the occasional crashing and inability to use certain apps, this thing has been able to do everything I've needed it to do. It would be interesting to see how you guys would fare considering we all use or have used such old hardware already.
Anyone down?
I'm curious because I'm currently rocking a 64GB 1st gen iPad, and aside from the occasional crashing and inability to use certain apps, this thing has been able to do everything I've needed it to do. It would be interesting to see how you guys would fare considering we all use or have used such old hardware already.
Anyone down?
I got one too. Safari crashes constantly it's almost impossible to use it. There is no fun anymore in using such a crappy device like the iPad 1.
Yep, they just don't have enough RAM. My mother is using a 1st gen iPad and has similar issues. After procrastinating on it, she's just bitten the bullet and ordered an iPad Air 2 as they are heavily discounted at CostCo this week.
Well, I can tell you one person who is doing it right now with a 3GS, 32GB. Used to be my 3GS until last year. My friend RedCroissant needed a phone so I gave him my 3GS and he uses it as his main phone. iOS 6.x, texting, iMessage and phone calls.
Used to be my sister's phone until she gave it to me. Works just fine for everything Red needs it for.
Guys, what about a Classic OS challenge? That could potentially be really tricky for some people depending on the kind of work they do.
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I use the same device and it works perfectly. I obviously do not use Safari though. Opera provides the best performance and hasn't crashed for me once.
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I use the same device and it works perfectly. I obviously do not use Safari though. Opera provides the best performance and hasn't crashed for me once.
As promised, today ends my week with just the PowerBook. I really had no problems apart from YouTube. Firefox is slow, but usable. Dillo is lightning fast, but lacks Javascript support, so banking sites and JSTOR wouldn't work. It's still great for everything else. I wrote a long paper using Abiword which went fine. PDFs were handled by xpdf. I haven't found a PDF reader that's lighter and faster.
My biggest complaints are the trackpad and the GPU, neither of which would be a problem in OS X. I never liked one button trackpads, and this one is no exception because it lacks scrolling and right click functionality. I used a USB mouse after the first few hours rather than try to get it working. As expected, the nv driver lacks acceleration and is generally really bad, which reinforces my desire to never use NVIDIA hardware whenever possible. I think the T42 is faster for browsing just due to direct rendering on the Radeon 7500.
Overall it was pretty good. It was perfectly stable and I was able to do just about everything I needed to do.
Yeah, I finished my week also. There were a few hiccups along the way, my PowerBook's hard drive crashed and the latch broke, but I fixed both of the issues. I had to use an Intel computer once, it was a Dell at school, to get a project graded. But other than that, the week was fine, I got most of my stuff done, PowerPoints and Word Docs, I could do basically everything I needed with the PowerBook that I could do with my MacBook. The only thing I wish these PPC Macs had was Java 6. Then, I would most likely use one as my main machine.