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PPC Mac for elderly parents, good choice?
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Please, no. Google rapes privacy and censors search results. Do not feed the beast.
I am not a Google advocate by any means, but the mentality behind the Chromebook is brilliant! That being said, the HP Stream running Windows 8 is taking the same direction and I am not sure how that is going to work for Microsoft. I personally prefer local storage over some cloud based provider as I do not like my information and data out my reach.
How well does it run on your eMac? I take it that you have the model with Radeon 9600 graphics. I find it runs quite well on my Power Mac G4, but then again I would expect it to with all the upgrades I've installed
Overall, it does the job. There's an occasional lag or frame skip if a lot is happening on the screen at once, but not severe enough to impact the playability. It's just a shame it seems the online multiplayer community has all but vanished.
The Stream is actually pretty nice, according to some reviews. I saw the commercial and fell in love with the candied colors, but when I saw the price ($200 USD) my heart sank, knowing anything this cheap has to suck ass. Needless to say, Engadget gave it a pretty good score.
I definitely will, but I just learnt that the recipient that I'd buy this for is getting a new MacBook Air to replace her still rockin Early '08 MacBook. I actually have TWO mid 2007 still around that I use for odds and ends.
I do get the sinking feeling that the hinges and overall feel will still be cheep.
I have an HP Chromebook 11 and the hardware is pretty good feeling for the price.
Microsoft is essentially doing Windows 8.1 with Bing for a really low rate to OEMs.
Absolutely not!!!!!
Why don't you just go ahead and gather their identity information and post it to to every untrusted website you can find!
I love my old Macs as much as anyone and still use them in my household. However, none of them are still connected to the Internet!
Although PPC Macs are still likely more secure than current Windows PCs (truth hurts), you should no longer have them connected to the Internet.
As other have suggested, if you care at all for your parent's security, you need to set them up with something tat is still modern and updatable like a used Mac or a Chromebook.
Why don't you just go ahead and gather their identity information and post it to to every untrusted website you can find!
I love my old Macs as much as anyone and still use them in my household. However, none of them are still connected to the Internet!
Although PPC Macs are still likely more secure than current Windows PCs (truth hurts), you should no longer have them connected to the Internet.
As other have suggested, if you care at all for your parent's security, you need to set them up with something tat is still modern and updatable like a used Mac or a Chromebook.
No to any ppc for a parent.
-A chromebook would be a good option,just make sure to get one with a intel cpu and not a arm one. (octane scores really prove this out)
-If you do go cheap windows laptop,the hp stream is also a good value vs cost. Buy one from the microsoft store (there well prices there)....ms store sell's there pc's without any "crapware" added!
-A chromebook would be a good option,just make sure to get one with a intel cpu and not a arm one. (octane scores really prove this out)
-If you do go cheap windows laptop,the hp stream is also a good value vs cost. Buy one from the microsoft store (there well prices there)....ms store sell's there pc's without any "crapware" added!
it was up till about a year or two ago. my mom runs a iMac G4 700mhz with modified version of OS X.5. That was fine till about year ago when firefox even safari had hard time with web pages. forget about flash player most flash based pages will not load on a PPC mac very well at all. You are very limited to word processing that is about it or running legacy programs. Since then the the iMac died and she is using a more powerful iMac G4 the 1.25ghz model that one works a little better for basic internet. About all a PPC G4 is good for is a iTunes music server. Mine i would suggest is a iMac or mac mini that will support the latest OS anything older then that you might get a year or two use out of in OS X.7. Do not waste your money on used intel macs that are known to have issues unless you willing to chuck out another $300 for apple to fix it (blanket fix if there is failure that is not human caused). other wise it will get costly to fix.