I'm a devoted Lombard user, writing this on said Lombard, and I have to
agree with R.P. on this. Then again, I did as much with my 190 for as
long as I could before getting my Lombard a month ago. With a G4
upgrade and maxxed-out RAM, the ol' Lombard will serve me through my
senior year of High School, as my primary machine, and another few
years after that as a writing/notes machine for when I won't want to
drag my will-be MacBook with me. :-)
Caleb
P.S. It's only going to be another two years for the Lombard, so I
figure it can make the most of Jag in that time.
CSC
On Thursday, Jan 12, 2006, at 11:14 America/Chicago, R. P. Bell wrote:
I just don't understand this way of thinking. I, too, am a devoted
Pismo user
and my 9500 is sitting beside me (though I'm writing this on my HP
WinXP
machine) running like clockwork with a G3-500/750 and 1 GB RAM under
MacOS
9.1 -- it has not been rebooted in so long I don't even remember when
I last
rebooted it. Sure, it was an expensive machine when it was new, but
that cost
has been amortized over several years and has been no more than the
cumulative
expense of several PeeCees that have rotated into/out of this place in
the
interim.
My Pismo still goes with me on travels and I even enjoy responding to
the
occasional query, "Why is the Apple upside down?" (I just reach up,
start to
close the lid and say, "Looks the right way to me!") But, in the time
I've had
the 9500 and (later) the Pismo, I've bought at least three cars--but I
ain't
stopped driving, yet. Everything comes and goes. That's life. My
wife wanted
a "desklamp" iMac, then the new iteration, and now, she has decided
she wants a
MacBook Pro (I can't win--I use the old stuff, she gets the new
stuff...but
that's OK, 'cause when I take care of her, she takes care of me, ;-).
Zoltan...suck it up, dude. Sell the Pismo for a few hundred $$ and
use the
money to offset the cost of a new MacBook Pro--and if the Intels make
you yawn,
then get the G4 Powerbook (for the same price) -- you'll still be
using it in
2012 running OS X.94.x Pussycat (and my friend, THAT is cheap
computing. Try
that with a Dell or even an HP running under XP-Vista New Generation
or whatever
stupid name it will go by!).
I can't wait to buy my next car (or my wife's next Mac!)...and I'm not
a rich
man. That's just the cost of doing business.
rb
==============
San Bernardino
PS Zoltan, your don't need to have your Pismo fitted for a tombstone;
our Pismos
ARE tombstones. Matter of fact, I think I just figured out how to
save on the
cost of a memorial stone to be able to afford my wife's new MacBook
Pro.
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