Quote from: tapdn on October 21, 2009, 08:58:33 AMThe first Mac I bought for home was a beige G3 233 with 512 and 10 Gig HD. Think I paid around $1600 for it. Look what 1600 would buy today!! FFS my iPod is more powerful than that G3 was. So in that respect computers are way cheaper today.

Mine was a  :embarrassed: performa 6112 I came with 8 megs of ram I maxed it out to 72 like a 250 meg HD with 601 processor and I think I paid a lot more then that.

Quote from: Falstaff on October 20, 2009, 09:15:22 PMNo Solid State Drive option? What's up w/that?

This might have something to do with it.

Not exactly a huge difference :undecided:

Quote from: G_Town on October 21, 2009, 09:19:21 AM

Quote from: tapdn on October 21, 2009, 08:58:33 AMThe first Mac I bought for home was a beige G3 233 with 512 and 10 Gig HD. Think I paid around $1600 for it. Look what 1600 would buy today!! FFS my iPod is more powerful than that G3 was. So in that respect computers are way cheaper today.

Mine was a  :embarrassed: performa 6112 I came with 8 megs of ram I maxed it out to 72 like a 250 meg HD with 601 processor and I think I paid a lot more then that.

G3 was first I "bought". I had a couple of 7200's I scavenged from the junk room and got me a 601e processor and a 4 Gig HD off ebay to soup that sucker up!!  :laugh:

Quote from: G_Town on October 21, 2009, 09:23:05 AMNot exactly a huge difference :undecided:

No not a huge difference but the SSD are getting faster so Apple will need to fix some code to take advantage of it.

Refurbs are great. They have the advantage of being gone over with a fine-toothed comb by certified technicians whereas new ones just come right off the line into the box and to your door. I've opened a few new ones in my time only to find out they were DOA. Never had it happen with a refurb. And it won't be long before there are some of the new ones on the refurb site.

Speaking of old computers...first hard drive I bought for my old Tandy 286 was a 32 megabyte hard drive. $319.00. And sounded like an electric dryer half full of nickels running at full speed. And even that computer wasn't the "first". Shit, I'm old!

Kaypro, anyone? I spent countless hours typing on one of those in my father's office - tiny monochrome screen, no GUI whatsoever.

anything like this nifty bit of artwork from a (boring) job I'm working on today???

Quote from: Falstaff on October 20, 2009, 09:15:22 PMNo Solid State Drive option? What's up w/that?

Are you that anxious to buy a $4000 iMac?

Quote from: Joe on October 21, 2009, 10:00:25 AMRefurbs are great. They have the advantage of being gone over with a fine-toothed comb by certified technicians whereas new ones just come right off the line into the box and to your door. I've opened a few new ones in my time only to find out they were DOA. Never had it happen with a refurb. And it won't be long before there are some of the new ones on the refurb site.

Speaking of old computers...first hard drive I bought for my old Tandy 286 was a 32 megabyte hard drive. $319.00. And sounded like an electric dryer half full of nickels running at full speed. And even that computer wasn't the "first". Shit, I'm old!

Agreed :laugh:

I like old people. They're special and smart.

Quote from: gnubler on October 21, 2009, 12:01:16 PMI like old people. They're special and smart.

and they fall right off the bone if you cook them right. :cheesy:

my husband bought me a  magic mouse for home, nice mouse, I have to upgrade to leapord to use everything on it.
He didn't ask about the os. what a PC!

Quote from: Joe on October 21, 2009, 10:00:25 AMRefurbs are great. They have the advantage of being gone over with a fine-toothed comb by certified technicians whereas new ones just come right off the line into the box and to your door. I've opened a few new ones in my time only to find out they were DOA. Never had it happen with a refurb. And it won't be long before there are some of the new ones on the refurb site.

Speaking of old computers...first hard drive I bought for my old Tandy 286 was a 32 megabyte hard drive. $319.00. And sounded like an electric dryer half full of nickels running at full speed. And even that computer wasn't the "first". Shit, I'm old!

Yeah? I had a TI-994A which required this mammoth sized box to add a 5.25" floppy, and cost upwards of $1,000. I remember raking leaves, mowing lawns, etc. for a few months to save up $150 for the 32k expansion unit, and it was another 6 months or so for the $249 for the RS232 card and 24 pin dot matrix printer. It had this fan that sounded like and was about as loud as a vacuum cleaner. My next computer was an 8088 with no hard drive and twin 5.25" floppies my dad bought me for my high school graduation.

The 5.25" floppy drive unit in my old TRS-80 could have been used as a river barge anchor after it no longer functioned as a disk drive.

I sold my old TRS-80 along with that huge floppy drive unit, cassette recorder, assorted games, 300 baud modem, and an OS system called OS-9 (not the one by Apple) with a software suite called DeskMate a couple of years ago. The guy that bought it brought his wife along and when this guy saw everything he was as excited as DCS in the morgue after a train wreck. His wife just rolled her eyes at him several times. I wonder if they are still married? :rolleyes: