Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread Caleb Cupples
Well, I do, for one. Then again, I don't consider any G4 to be low-end, on the PowerBook front, yet the G-books list is flooded with them. Even my Lombard 400 isn't low end, IMHO. Caleb -- G3 Lombard, G3/400, 192 MB RAM, OS X Jaguar PowerBook 190, 68LC040/33, 24 MB RAM, OS 7.5.3 On Friday,

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread Noah Wood
I do find it amusing, but who else has these lists, There could be some other places but Low end mac has the best running lists if you ask me. On 1/20/06, Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Macintel list, which covers all Intel-based Macs... [snip] Once the MacBook Pro ships, we're

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread Brian Mahoney
Andrew Kershaw wrote: The Macintel list, which covers all Intel-based Macs... [snip] Once the MacBook Pro ships, we're ready to launch the MacBook List. I've also set up a Mac mini List. Does anyone else find it even slightly amusing that LOW END Mac is running these lists? ;-) Peace,

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread yersinia
Well, I do, for one. Then again, I don't consider any G4 to be low-end, on the PowerBook front, yet the G-books list is flooded with them. Even my Lombard 400 isn't low end, IMHO. Caleb -- G3 Lombard, G3/400, 192 MB RAM, OS X Jaguar PowerBook 190, 68LC040/33, 24 MB RAM, OS 7.5.3 On Friday, Jan

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread Robert Patterson
Well, yes, it is slightly amusing, but I've had to face the fact that we're suddenly in a whole new Mac world... and it won't be long before many listers here feel like orphans in the new MacIntel environment! I think that the low-end lists here will become even more valuable as time wears on,

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread Brian Mahoney
yersinia wrote: It's just that I wish there was a list for people like me. ~Yersinia. I've been looking all my life for one of those for me! LOL BM -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | --

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread darm0k
At 10:35 AM -0400 01/21/2006, yersinia wrote: maybe it's time for Low End Macs to change its name Today's high-end is tomorrow's low-end. And let's face it, from the benchmarks starting to appear, the new x86 iMac is barely medium-end. The name is good. The community is great. Keep it.

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread Fabian Fang
On Jan 21, 2006, at 6:35 AM, yersinia wrote: Gosh, if there's going to be new lists, I wish there'd be one for ALL Old Macs, Pre-OS X. I'm getting really tired of reading about OS X, G4s, G5s, Minis, Cubes, Intel Macs and so on. :vent: I know, I don't have to sub to the new lists,

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread W. Adrian D'Alessio ( FluxStringer )
-Original Message- From: Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 20, 2006 11:22 PM To: PowerBooks powerbooks@mail.maclaunch.com Subject: Re: New Low End Mac email lists The Macintel list, which covers all Intel-based Macs... [snip] Once the MacBook Pro ships, we're ready to launch

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 21, 2006, at 1:10 PM, W. Adrian D'Alessio ( FluxStringer ) wrote: The frightening part is the fast rising cost of the Dream Machine Macs. Placing them evermore out of my financial reach until they are low end too. Those who can afford the best take the high performance

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 21, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Dream Mac Past: The original, the wonder, the 128K Mac cost $2495 in 1894. Cost in 2003 dollars: $4417 As farsighted as Jobs and Woz are, they did not, afaik, rig a DeLorean with a particle accelerator to introduce the Mac to the amazed

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread Dr . O . M . Betz
Am 21.01.2006 um 21:32 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks im Digest-Modus: (Andy:) Does anyone else find it even slightly amusing that LOW END Mac is running these lists? ;-) Of course, it sounds hilarious, but remember the temporary subtitle of the LEM Homepage: Because every Mac is low-end some time.

New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Knight
We've created some new email lists, but they're different from the old ones. We're using Google Groups, which means you can sign up, change your status, and read postings using your browser. I hope to eventually move other lists to Google Groups as well. The Macintel list, which covers all

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Kershaw
The Macintel list, which covers all Intel-based Macs... [snip] Once the MacBook Pro ships, we're ready to launch the MacBook List. I've also set up a Mac mini List. Does anyone else find it even slightly amusing that LOW END Mac is running these lists? ;-) Peace, Drew -- Author of