Posted on 03/07/2009 3:51:48 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Let's see... I administer a couple of dozen flat panel iMacs that are up to 7 years old, haven't had one fail in that manner yet. However, replacement screens are available...
I bought 2 gigs of DDR2 ram for moms pc for 18 bucks x 8= 144 bucks.
1 TB drives are going for 90 bucks on newegg.com
Now if your thinking Intel i7 with DDR3 memory and board now your talking big bucks!
It does?
Firefox tops app vulnerability list
Bit9 research reports 40 known severe vulnerabilities this year for the popular browser
Phil Muncaster
vnunet.com, 11 Dec 2008Mozilla's open-source Firefox browser recorded the highest number of severe vulnerabilities among popular consumer applications this year, according to new research from whitelisting firm Bit9 released today.
Versions two and three of the popular browser were found to have 40 known vulnerabilities over the course of the year. Second highest was Adobe Acrobat versions 8.1.2 and 8.1.1 with 31, and in third place was Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger versions 4.7 and 5.1 with 19 vulnerabilities. . . MORE.
The Mac Pros don't use the Nehalem i7 Intel "Bloomfield" quad core processors which were released five months ago... they use two of the Intel Nehalem Xeon Quad core "Gainestown" processors (which won't be released to the other manufacturers for another couple of weeks). Retailing for around $2500 each, the Gainestown processors run about $2,000 more expensive than the i7s with the same clock speed which can be purchased for around $550 each.
You also have to use ECC memory... which the i7s don't support.
“It does?”
Well, actually I meant bugs of the kind that cause hangups. I don’t really care about hacking threats to my computer.
Ahh the good old days : ) I remember soldering extra heat sinks and fans and keeping the room ice cold.
I think I spent over $800 on Ram alone for my system. I have found that extra Ram is better than faster clock speed for my purposes (lots of apps running at once).
To each his own but I am getting old and lazy. I just want the system to work and not cause me any problems. I like that I can let my wife and kids on the system with almost no worries (they don't have the root control password) and since the system automatically backs up, I have a hard time seeing what might ruin my day.
Life on the bleeding edge : )
I built my last computer out of curds and whey, and wrote the OS in crayon on a napkin.
My Vista box decided it didn’t like the manual config that I set up to get it on my LAN. Double checked, everything was exactly right, still no go. Wiped the settings and started fresh using the *exact same info* and it worked.
Worth a try before shelling out for a new router, which sounds pretty fishy to me.
I’ve had IE 8 for going on a year now maybe longer. FYI IE8 is Release Candidate 1, which isn’t a beta any longer.
I wish there was a survey of Apple and Prius owners. I’d venture to bet a high percentage own both, and are also liberal.
I had a G4 iBook bought about 2003. It was used hard over the last 6 years without trouble. It just last week began to develop a short in the wiring harness connecting the LCD panel; likely due to opening and closing the lid about a million times. I retired it and bought one of the new aluminum MacBooks. What a nicely constructed machine. It's solid, with no flex. Tolerances on every panel are perfect, hell the machine is even nicely finished on the inside of the battery compartment. It's a pleasure to own.
Hangups? I haven't seen a Safari crash for several months and mine is on 24/7... currently I am using Safari 4.0 Beta... and it has not crashed either.
Those all in one computers are a nightmare if you have to work on one. I never liked the original iMacs and the newer ones are more streamlined, but still not my cup of tea. I get the idea of slimline computers and I actually bought a re-certified Dell small form factor GX520 and any smaller than that I’d get a new laptop but I already have one. That Dell cost me under $100 and it is as current as I need to be. It runs Windows 7 on it and XP as well. 3.2 gHz 512mb upgraded to 2gb.
Why do you find it necessary to exaggerate? What was this "upgraded" keyboard and mouse from Apple? The Apple keyboard and Mouse that came with the Mac you claim was the same they sold on their website and stores. Keyboard price was about $49. The Mouse was usually about $29. If you wanted a bluetooth wireless mouse (I am not sure they offered them for the G4 PowerMac because it was not offered as a factory installed option). Then you MIGHT have gotten to a $120 bluetooth keyboard and mouse including a Bluetooth USB adaptor.
Did you buy this G4 used? Or new?
They are? I just replaced a hard drive on one of my client's 2007 Intel iMacs... Place the iMac face down on a table, loosen three captive screws, lift off the back and set it aside. Everything is easily accessed. Replacing the LCD screen or backlight would be more difficult... but everything else is modular.
That’s what I was talking about though. Give me an idea how much a replacement LCD screen for that iMac will cost? Let me guess it’s also going to be a proprietary LCD screen specifically for Apple?
Pre-game trash talking. Something for the locker room bulletin board. I'll wait to do post-game analysis until after the game is actually, you know, played.
Only if you have very limited expectations for Web surfing. Computers more than a few years old are going to have a hard time with YouTube, and with a lot of Flash pages.
The Web has shifted the definition of obsolescence; it's true that whatever a computer can do the day you buy it, it will continue to do for years and years; but long before the hardware fails, "doing the same stuff" will no longer include visiting the same Web sites.
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