On Sunday 08 December 2002 06:05 pm, you wrote: > I have a friend who's son has the worst PC in the world. I have been over > there so much just getting Windows 98 to work correctly. > > I said to his mother that I just bought a B&W G3 and I thought it would be > a good investment for her and her son. > > Well how do you sell a Macintosh to a 12 year old boy that is into playing > lots of games and the live on line ones. > > The Mac will do most everything he needs as he spends the most of his time > on the net and Ichat and AOL will take care of that but he is concerned > that if friends send him .exe files he will not be able to open them. I > thought about Virtual PC and installing Windows 98 but that does not solve > his gaming appetite.
First suggestion: point them to Sawtooth or better instead of a Blue and White. Blue and Whites are nice and all (I have one) but a G4 can do so much more than a G3 and with the AGP slot that a Sawtooth or higher has you can run any modern video card. Float the idea of a Radeon their way. Watch the young gamer drool at the thought of it. Second suggestion: Virtual PC with Windows 2000 instead of 98. 98 is a frustrating mess. You might even want to go the XP route but usually 2K uses resources more frugally than the bloated XP. -- Michelle Klein-Hass Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 http://www.msgeek.com/ Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it! -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
