At 01:34 PM -0500 06/15/2005, Brian wrote:
[...] The reason I post? well, [...]
[Recap: Brian's da has several unused older Macs but has gotten
heavily into eBay on his 400 MHz iMac]
Well, seems like there are two issues here:
a) Your da shares the eBay/shopping addiction gene with my housemate.
b) Your da wants a faster desktop Mac with a good sized monitor.
For the former, I can but commiserate. I've tried to stear my
housemate away from evil - towards purchasing useful things, things
that I can resell or at least use in refirbing other equipment. But
he spent $135 on bathroom readers. Now has four DVD-RW drives, five
JAZ drives, 30+ JAZ discs, etc. Then there's "how about chicken for
dinner?", which turned into the purchase of 11 pounds over the last
two days.
For the latter, eBay has become a nasty site to surf; full of badly
written html and javascript. It's not even quick on 1 GHz+ machines.
Tools like Sherlock and shareware eBay tools help, but not by much.
Perhaps you could steer your father toward a PowerMac G4? It would
give him the "big machine" look and feel that might satisfy him. And
he could have a larger monitor. Then you could help him sell off the
older gear.
G'luck.
- Dan.
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