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*Have* a G3 Powerbook...
« on: July 27, 2005, 10:20:45 PM »
I'm looking into buying a secondhand PowerBook (WallStreet). I was wondering if anyone here has experienced using such a machine and how usable they still are in this day and age for some webbrowsing, typing and MP3 playing using OS X. Are they dog slow or is it still quite pleasant to use one of these beasts?
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Re: Considering a G3 PowerBook
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2005, 10:56:11 PM »
Hmmm, but aren't you a bit prejudiced being the world's biggest mac-hater? ;-).

Seriously though, was this MHz related or more a matter of (RAM)size?
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Re: Considering a G3 PowerBook
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2005, 11:33:15 PM »
Is OS X very tweakable in the sense that graphical hoohaa can be turned off to make is speedier/less hungry for memory?

On another note...how crap is OS 9.x exactly?
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Re: Considering a G3 PowerBook
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2005, 11:51:20 AM »
My only concern is the lack of USB on these ancient G3 Powerbooks, but I guess that can easily be solved with some elcheapo PCMCIA card....or not?
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Re: Considering a G3 PowerBook
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2005, 09:26:40 PM »
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 Can't remember what else peeved me, but I do remember being cheered up by watching the Epson printer go wrong and start jumping around the desk and then fall off the edge. I reckon it had enough of OS9 and committed suicide   :lol:

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Re: Considering a G3 PowerBook
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2005, 12:05:44 PM »
Right, I've offloaded 200EUR for a 400MHz G3 with USB on EBay. Sadly only 6GB HD and 128MB RAM. But that can be easily solved.
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Re: Considering a G3 PowerBook
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2005, 11:58:02 PM »
Clickety-click

I'm fairly satisfied with what I got, only minor niggle is that the screen does have a dead pixel or two.

It only has IE5 on it.....:nervous:.
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Re: Considering a G3 PowerBook
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2005, 12:29:19 PM »
I don't think I would find use for a firewireport. Another thing on this PowerBook is that the DVD-ROM seems very choosy when it comes to reading CDs. Loads of audio CDs don't get recognised for some reason. The drive just keep trying to get revs and OS9 completely freezes.
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Re: Considering a G3 PowerBook
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2005, 03:01:15 PM »
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Not a bad price... any reason why you wanted a Mac?

200EUR was my budget and well, for 200EUR you can get about a P3600 256MB PC laptop. With this macthing the useability is about the same for the same price and I've always been interested in trying out the more recent macs. My experience with macs doesnt extend beyond OS7 on a 030 powerbook and OS8 on ShapeShifter (which ate my HD thankyouverymuch...).

So basically this laptop does what I want it to do (web, MP3s,  documents) and it has the added bonus of playing around with Macs.
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Re: Considering a G3 PowerBook
« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2005, 05:29:34 PM »
Victory! OS X.3, WLAN CardBus, 18 gig HD, 340MB RAM, CD-RW/DVD-ROM and a battery that runs for 3 hours!  Can't seem to burn yet, but I'm sure I'll be able to fix it. No more deskbound computing for me!

I might start using Ubuntu as main OS though, not sure if I like X..
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