Which PB for $450 USD?
Hello, I have managed to convince my father to purchase an older PB rather than some old PC laptop he spied at a local used PC shop. Now, of course, I have to help him find one. He can only afford to spend about $450 USD. I thought that the best option would be a PB 3400, which one can find on eBay for a little less than that. Another option would be to purchase a 1400c or 1400cs and a sonnet crescendo, also on eBay. I myself have the latter option and am quite happy with it, despite a small problem with freezing. My question is which of these options do you think would be best? My father is barely computer literate, so I want to get him something quite simple to operate [I will have about ten days over christmas holidays to teach him how to use it]. He wants to use this machine to do email, surf the web and do some word processing, while away from home. If you have any other suggestions besides these two options, please suggest away! I just want to find him the best machine for the money. Thanks, Mark [still in Lviv, Ukraine] -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Which PB for $450 USD?
- Original Message - From: mark baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 5:11 AM Subject: Which PB for $450 USD? Hello, I have managed to convince my father to purchase an older PB rather than some old PC laptop he spied at a local used PC shop. Now, of course, I have to help him find one. He can only afford to spend about $450 USD. I thought that the best option would be a PB 3400, which one can find on eBay for a little less than that. Another option would be to purchase a 1400c or 1400cs and a sonnet crescendo, also on eBay. I myself have the latter option and am quite happy with it, despite a small problem with freezing. My question is which of these options do you think would be best? My father is barely computer literate, so I want to get him something quite simple to operate [I will have about ten days over christmas holidays to teach him how to use it]. He wants to use this machine to do email, surf the web and do some word processing, while away from home. If you have any other suggestions besides these two options, please suggest away! I just want to find him the best machine for the money. Thanks, I have a Powerbook 3400, which I use for those purposes, and for some light audio work. It's a fine machine, and I recommend it highly. BUT. you MUST make sure that the PB he gets has a ram upgrade inside it! 16 mb is just not enough! I currently have the 48 mb card, and still feel a bit ram challenged at 64mb total ram. Just a suggestion. Good luck! -doktorboring [still in mourning for my city's skyline.] AIM- doktor242 MSN Yahoo- doktorboring www.mp3.com/c6h6 You can't break a free man. The worst you can do is kill him. ---Robert A. Heinlein -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Which PB for $450 USD?
The PB 3400 is definitely the machine of choice in that price range for a beginner. And there may still be a dutch auction on ebay for a unit that might be possible for $350. This leaves $100 for RAM. Now, doktorboring has mentioned in another post that he feels pressed at even 64MB. I understand, but there are ways around this. As I write, I am running Netscape 4x, Explorer 4x, Eudora Light, Graphic Converter, Picture Viewer and OS 8.6 all on 59MB. (I have 144MB in total.) A careful user who is conscious of what RAM is should have no problem operating with 64MB or even less while doing the bread and butter computing most of us do. But multitasking while running Photoshop and PageMaker and yer in do-do. But bear in mind doktorboring's warning, the stock 16 MB is not going to make it in today's fastlane, although software antiquarians could get it to function. Bottom line is (a) get a deal on a 3400; (b) get as much RAM as the budget allows, (c) judiciously select software versions; (d) give your father a crash course in how to conserve RAM. My 3400 (basic unit, $350) functions flawlessly doing what he wants to do. I am using an external ISDN 64K modem for daily online work. Lorne Spry in Sendai, (Tohoku area) the island of Honshu, Japan Tel/FAX: (from overseas) 81-22-781-0750; (in country) 022-781-0750 -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
