Mein Gott im Himmel! What a RipOff! JG
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > Best I could find these days was $160 + $5.45 shipping from Megamacs: > > http://www.megamacs.com/index.**php?action=frameview&id=** > 3723199&ref=google<http://www.megamacs.com/index.php?action=frameview&id=3723199&ref=google> > > Everybody else seemed to be pushing over $200. > > CB > > > On 9/23/11 9:35 PM, Aimee Glover wrote: > >> Well I'll have to check it out. It was a free computer so. >> >> Aimee >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Sep 23, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Chris Blouch<cblo...@aol.com> wrote: >> >> I have a powermac g4 tower that I wanted to upgrade to osx 10.5 since >>> that was as high as I could go on non-intel hardware. I wanted to be >>> legitimate and not just "share" a copy from another machine. This turned out >>> to be non-trivial as Apple moved all references and sales to 10.6 (at the >>> time) and all the usual web sites selling old software were apparently aware >>> of this, jacking up the price to hundreds of dollars. I finally ended up >>> buying one from eBay for a more sane price that was still north of $100. So >>> just be prepared. Folks who have stocks of 10.5 in the shrink-wrap know the >>> non-intel Mac users have nowhere else to go and will price accordingly. That >>> cheap ppc Mac might not be such a deal if you want it somewhat current >>> legally. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Sep 23, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Aimee Glover<awildh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thank you so much. Now I gotta find it to buy. >>>> >>>> Aimee. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Sep 23, 2011, at 6:29 PM, >>>> BlindMacMan<blindmacman@mac.**com<blindmac...@mac.com>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello! I still have my PPC iMac G5 and it is running Leopard 10.5.8 >>>>> just fine... Do *NOT* go with Tiger 10.4.x... The improvements in >>>>> Leopard's VoiceOver alone make it worthwhile. >>>>> >>>>> HTH >>>>> >>>>> Lou/BlindMacMan. >>>>> On Sep 22, 6:28 pm, Aimee Glover<awildh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> It won't run anything higher than a certain version of leopard because >>>>>> it is pre-intel. It was kind of a freebie and I'm ok as long as it >>>>>> will be somewhat useable. >>>>>> >>>>>> Aimee >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Mike Arrigo<n0...@charter.net> wrote:> >>>>>> Leppard has some voiceover improvements, even still, this operating >>>>>> system >>>>>> is 2 versions behind the current one, I would say that it's not >>>>>> practical to >>>>>> go this root. >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Aimee Glover wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> My husband brought home a first generation G5 iMac. At least as far >>>>>>>> as >>>>>>>> VoiceOver, which would be better. I have had no experience with Mac >>>>>>>> pre SL, so I am truly clueless. Will open office work on it with vo? >>>>>>>> We need to upgrade the ram because it only has 512. I want to >>>>>>>> replace >>>>>>>> the windows desktop computer with this one because it is >>>>>>>> inaccessible >>>>>>>> without speech. 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