Inside this thread there is a guide that eyoungren, Intell, and I all wrote. It is called "(GUIDE) Leopard Speed Improvements". There are some great tips to improve animations, as well as general OS speed improvements.
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Inside this thread there is a guide that eyoungren, Intell, and I all wrote. It is called "(GUIDE) Leopard Speed Improvements". There are some great tips to improve animations, as well as general OS speed improvements.
That is a ripoff, your better off buying an early Intel Mac Laptop. Or spend another 50 bucks for a cheap Windows 7 or 8 laptop.
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Well, read as many guides as you can. Your going to run into lots of problems using that thing for actual work.
As much as I love my PPC macs, they've all been taken off real work duty and replaced with newer PCs and Macs.
Agreed. They work for light editing, email, slow web browsing. But compared with modern equipment, it is a frustrating experience only overshadowed by the nostalgia.
Did either of you read my post above about the G4 and G5 we use in daily production for the newspaper I work for?
These are still viable machines used in active work and they can still do the job.
The way I see it is that the OP is content with the machine they bought. It had software they needed. Even if they got a newer Intel or a PC they may not have been able to afford the software.
If you subtract what the software is worth, the machine was right in line with what it is worth in terms of hardware.
Now if this was just the PowerBook for that much, the seller would be out of his mind. But with CS2 and CS4, it is worth it.
Absolutely. Mine is my main computer. I use it for word processing, Gimp photo editing, research, PDFs, giving presentations, note taking, web browsing, music, and email. Pretty much everything I do with a computer except Youtube.
In addition to this, it serves as a full time SSH server for backing up stuff from my other devices and never gets turned off, unless I'm traveling with it somewhere. It has been 100% reliable, offers plenty of speed for my uses, and the keyboard is better for typing than any other laptop I have owned.
HD crashed yesterday..my loss.
I was PO and ordered a Refurbished 11.6-inch MacBook Air 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 from Apple..
I ordered a SSD for my PowerBook that should be here Tuesday. If you want, you can have my current HDD free. It's the 80 GB Toshiba and should fit your PowerBook. PM me your address and I'll zero the drive out and send it to you. Shipping is on me.
Try using MacTubes and setting the video player to QuickTime in Preferences.
HD crashed yesterday..my loss.
I was PO and ordered a Refurbished 11.6-inch MacBook Air 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 from Apple..
Call the seller back up!
I'm using OpenBSD, not OS X. However I have got Minitube to work before on OpenBSD 5.4, so it may be possible with 5.5. I just haven't bothered as of yet.
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People will hate me because of what I am going to say, but for $250 you could pick up a first gen MacBook Pro, which is much better for the types of applications you would want to run. If you really want a PowerBook, make sure you look out for later models, as these have superdrives, larger hd's, a higher RAM limit, better bluetooth and wifi, and sometimes a backlit keyboard. If I were you I would pass on anything that is higher than $150 at most for a PowerBook.
People will hate me because of what I am going to say, but for $250 you could pick up a first gen MacBook Pro, which is much better for the types of applications you would want to run. If you really want a PowerBook, make sure you look out for later models, as these have superdrives, larger hd's, a higher RAM limit, better bluetooth and wifi, and sometimes a backlit keyboard. If I were you I would pass on anything that is higher than $150 at most for a PowerBook.
This also had software the OP needed. If they got a MacBook, who is to say whether they could afford software they needed. When you subtract the value of Adobe software, it wasn't too bad of a deal.
I was just reading over this post and I must say that was very kind of you. Its rare to find people who just do nice things to do nice things so I thought I would recognize it.
Just because you can ride a bike cross country it doesn't mean it's just as good or as fast as a car.
No, but just because a car may be better or faster doesn't mean you can't still ride a bike cross country.
My argument was that PowerPC Macs are still capable, in response to the argument that they are not.
I am not arguing that PowerPC Macs are as good or better than Intel Macs in doing the same tasks.
And I'm not saying they're incapable. I'm just saying that while I love the charm of PowerPC Macs, if I want to do anything serious, I'm going to use something with more power. The bike might make it cross-country, but I'm sure has hell taking the car.
I get you. In this metaphor, if I could afford a car, or rather if the boss would buy a car and not keep us on bikes, I'd be with you. A plane ticket would be even better, but all I have is a bike. Which beats the hell out of walking!And I'm not saying they're incapable. I'm just saying that while I love the charm of PowerPC Macs, if I want to do anything serious, I'm going to use something with more power. The bike might make it cross-country, but I'm sure has hell taking the car.
Thanks for getting me up and running!!!
Let us know how it turns out. Did you get disks to restore all the software it came with?