On 15 Mar 2005, at 22:06, ben wrote:
Hi
What would people say was the best value for money 2nd hand laptop, (talking sub 200 quid here)...
The G3 powerbooks I see on ebay, 250mhz and up, are they capable of running os x with any usefulness?
Regards
ben
I've run it successfully on a 333 Mhz Lombard, but not doing anything terribly exciting - a bit of gentle photo-processing with Photoshop was about the heaviest use. Even then it had a lot of RAM and an upgraded hard disk (20 Gbyte?). But it will run on these machines.
More importantly, I have a feeling that they are reaching the end of their lives. In the last year I've had two Lombards get pretty unusable - ethernet ports fail, that sort of thing - and we've still got a Pismo with a dodgy DVD drive - most of the time the system just doesn't see the drive at all. So I think these older Powerbooks are a bit of a gamble.
I think that the most cost-effective s/h Apple laptops would be the very late G3 iBooks, or the first G4 iBooks.
Tom
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