i hate laptop/netbooks in general. i like big screens and lots of them
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Richard Hattaway <rhatta...@rocketmail.com>wrote: > I use a Chromebook (c: > > > > > On Friday, October 11, 2013 7:51 PM, Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> wrote: > > I retired my 20" C2D iMac for the youngest son to take to college to > augment his Toshiba i7 laptop. To replace the iMac, I bought a Mac Pro 1,1 > from a fellow Mac buddy for $400 shipped to my house. That included a > 128GB SSD boot drive. > > The Mac Pro blows my iMac away, and i's only running 2-2.66 GHz dual core > Xeons with a firmware flash to the 2,1 firmware. I know I can pop in a > couple of X5355s or 5365s to bump it to an 8 core machine for under $100. > It does such a good job the way it is I haven't felt the need. It wouldn't > make a lot of difference to me anyway, as most of the stuff I run is single > threaded anyway. > > When I do rip a CD or run Handbrake I can definitely tell the difference. > > Love my Macs. > > MacDan > > > On Oct 11, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: > > > the first macs i encountered were late 90s and i thought it was some of > the > > nicest hardware i'd ever seen. i used to really enjoy taking 2 or 3 junk > > pismos and making 1 good one, generally in under an hour. similarly with > > the g3 imacs. and my g4 dual powermac was really fantastic in look, feel > > and function > > > > i was less moved by my current stuff but never had any issues with either > > unit. the 2005 G5 quad powermac is still my main machine and the 2007 > > core2duo mini also runs without a hitch > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- *reliable vendor of superior parts for mercedes and other european cars * *www.BuyEUROparts.com* _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
