Buying from Apple

[Stephen Coates]

I think people will develop PPC software for a few years.

Look at the 68ks.

On the subject of money, remember that powermac g3 which I got for £35 inc postage. Well, I decided to list it's G4 upgrade on ebay and someone in Germany bought it at the buy it now price for £39.99 +£10 postage. Just got to hope that it doesn't get lost in the post now.

[Harrison]

How come you sold the G4 upgrade? DO you have a better G4 based Mac now? And what are you going to do with the G3?

[Stephen Coates]

I sold the G4 to get some money. I'll probably get a G3 for it now.

[Harrison]

Let me get this straight. You sold a G4 upgrade for your Mac, and are going to use the money to buy an older and slower G3 to replace it.

So you are in effect downgrading your Mac?

[Stephen Coates]

I actually profited there. Only by £5 but it does mean that if I get a G3 processor for it for something like £10 (they arn't expensive), I have literally got the entire machine for £5 .

I wanted the money to go towards other stuff like a PowerBook and some amiga stuff .

[Harrison]

Whilst it is cool ending up only having paid £5 for a complete system, it is a little sad at the same time that you ended up reducing the speed of the system so much just to make a few pounds.

Although, I fully support the sale of old Mac hardware to fund Amiga purchases.

What Powerbook are you getting?

[Stephen Coates]

I'm not all that bothered about reducing the speed of it. I don;t use it as my main computer any more. (My main intention for it was to use it as my main computer for a while to see how good it was compared to other machines).

I have bought a powerbook G3 'WallStreet'. I'm not saying anythingmore about it until I get it.

Oh, and I bought a Presario 1615 laptop as well. Thats the same one as the one I was always having problems with a while back. (In case you're wondering why, I want to try Windows XP on it mainly).