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The attention is amazing. iBook G3 in airport
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What's old is new again.
I imagine most of those people had never seen a clamshell iBook before. Did anyone instagram it?
The Graphite has class and a certain degree of timelessness. I can't say the same about the Tangerine.
I imagine most of those people had never seen a clamshell iBook before. Did anyone instagram it?
The Graphite has class and a certain degree of timelessness. I can't say the same about the Tangerine.
I had one lady ask if that's one of the new ones. Maybe 10 pictures from various people.What's old is new again.
I imagine most of those people had never seen a clamshell iBook before. Did anyone instagram it?
The Graphite has class and a certain degree of timelessness. I can't say the same about the Tangerine.
Yeah the graphite is sleek and the keyboard is amazing as ever.
Got to get a new graphite leaf and stem.
Reminds me about 2 years ago when I went to purchase 2 clamshells that a young guy was selling - to finance a new pair of limited edition sneakers! We met up in a hypermarket cafe, and within minutes with both G3 iBooks on the table and the latte's served, we had a small crowd interested as both were fully functional with OS9.
I'll be in UK next month to collect a 466MHz clamshell (and an IBM 'butterfly'). On the flight back, I'll open up and use the clamshell (it has a good battery - which is rare), just to see the reaction it gets.
Just as well it's a graphite and not a key-lime, which I wouldn't use in public - unless I had a young daughter with me carrying a Barbie Doll........
I'll be in UK next month to collect a 466MHz clamshell (and an IBM 'butterfly'). On the flight back, I'll open up and use the clamshell (it has a good battery - which is rare), just to see the reaction it gets.
Just as well it's a graphite and not a key-lime, which I wouldn't use in public - unless I had a young daughter with me carrying a Barbie Doll........
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Use Tiger (or TenFourKit or Omniweb) using a mobile user agent - does anyone do anything mission critical on old machines that security is such an issue?
When was TenFourKit last updated? I haven't seen it anywhere.
For lightweight Tiger browsers, I've been using processor optimized builds of Camino. 2 years more up to date than Safari 4, and loads many websites Safari doesn't. Faster too, I think.
http://www.rpm-mozilla.org.uk/builds/camino/
No idea. Sorry, guess I just assumed Leopard for whatever reason. Should have realized OP was using Tiger.
The last TenFourKit update was Sept 2012. Unless I'm mistaken, Camino last saw an update in March of 2012 making it fairly close to the same time period. I've never seen those CPU optimized builds of Camino before, I'll have to try that out!
Reminds me about 2 years ago when I went to purchase 2 clamshells that a young guy was selling - to finance a new pair of limited edition sneakers! We met up in a hypermarket cafe, and within minutes with both G3 iBooks on the table and the latte's served, we had a small crowd interested as both were fully functional with OS9.
I'll be in UK next month to collect a 466MHz clamshell (and an IBM 'butterfly'). On the flight back, I'll open up and use the clamshell (it has a good battery - which is rare), just to see the reaction it gets.
Just as well it's a graphite and not a key-lime, which I wouldn't use in public - unless I had a young daughter with me carrying a Barbie Doll........
Oh, the key-lime maybe would be even more fun to get the full "barbies-toilet-seat" attention...
Oh..... the shame!Oh, the key-lime maybe would be even more fun to get the full "barbies-toilet-seat" attention...
Oh..... the shame!
C'mon... Key lime's not so bad is it? There is a dude doing custom iBook designs on ebay. He's clearly having fun with the bright colours and made a business out of it. This guy must be a wizard at iBook teardowns!
Well, have fun with them. I'm pretty sure they make a noticeable difference.
But I'm not the one testing different versions of the same browser side-by-side anyway, so I'm not gonna make comparisons.
Brought an iBook G3 Clamshell tangerine to School a couple times. Got quite the reaction from my peers and other students about its chunkiness, color, square screen, the handle, IO, OS 9... showed it to my teacher who for a brief moment was convinced by me telling him it’s the newest model. Always fun bringing old tech to school. Brought my Mac SE once too for a meeting of my after school computer club. Got quite the reactions from that. People were amazed at its age, the design of the mouse and keyboard, floppy disks... yet another time I brought my PowerBook 5300c to the Apple store while I waited for my Mid 2012 MBP to get its feet replaced. Boy, that was fun. I was just sitting there playing Tetris Max (my favorite PowerPC/68k game), and Full Tilt Space Cadet Pinball (same one from Windows XP), and all these employees kept coming up to me and asking me about it, inspecting it, trying it out... got comments from other people waiting at the tables too. Was a fun time.
He sure has ruined IMO quite a few iBooks. How many he's actually sold is anybody's guess, but the prices are so insane and the styling is so goofy I don't imagine he's moving very many.C'mon... Key lime's not so bad is it? There is a dude doing custom iBook designs on ebay. He's clearly having fun with the bright colours and made a business out of it. This guy must be a wizard at iBook teardowns!
Yes, well my wife saw them on my screen while I was writing up my post and she said "You should buy me one of those!" So I guess there is a market for it. Of course my answer was "If I find an old broken one for cheap, I'll do it up"
C'mon... Key lime's not so bad is it? There is a dude doing custom iBook designs on ebay. He's clearly having fun with the bright colours and made a business out of it. This guy must be a wizard at iBook teardowns!
You're right, the Key Lime Clamshell was quite a dare. To quote S. Jobs "a little less conservative, a little more fun". My post of course being 'tongue-in-cheek'
as I have both 366 and SE466 key lime models, love 'em and not ready to part with either. Must get a photo of my 'lime-twins' to post here later.
Definitely I'm looking for one as well. They are quite the lookers I must say.You're right, the Key Lime Clamshell was quite a dare. To quote S. Jobs "a little less conservative, a little more fun". My post of course being 'tongue-in-cheek'
[doublepost=1503582091][/doublepost]They handle was an absolute godsend in the airport carrying my backpack and a carry-on roller.
If I take a clamshell out in the wild these days, its typically the Key Lime or Tangerine. Partially because they have the best batteries of my lot, but also because they really do capture the essence of that era and tend to turn some heads. Once in a while its okay to draw a little attention to yourself right?
I think so with all the craziness going on in the world a little bit of levity and making people smile is a good thing in my book.
Not bad for an airport kebab place.So how was the Holy Land Tahini sauce?
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Got to take this to school now you guys have inspired me.