Should i upgrade, trade or sell my 1GHz tower?
A few months ago I had an urge to buy a Mac, my first Mac mind you. I was playing through all the things I wanted and what I came up with was:
Large Monitor - 20" at least
OS X
Reliability.
At the time I got exactly that. I picked up a 20" LCD from my local Apple reseller. Which in turn meant I could buy either a brand spanking new Gen 1 G5 Tower but no other toys like the Airport setup for my PC and my wifes iBook, no Ram upgrade & MOST importantly no 40 Gig iPod which I now worship. So I bought they only G4 Tower that reseller had in stock (impulse buy), a single 1GHz model with a 1 Gig dollop of ram on top.
Fast forward a couple of months and they release the 20" iMac. I was shattered as I wanted this form factor over my tower, ohh well.
Now a couple more months on and I have this nagging little itch:
Should I sell my tower now and buy either a new soon to be released G5 Tower, or maybe a nice shiny lil PowerBook and continue using that screen (which I now view as too small!).
OR
STFU and stick with what I have?
Any thoughts and input most welcome.
Zoran
PS. I don't even have a SuperDrive which is bumming me out as I think that would be neat. Luckily the manager of the local reseller at least gave me a free copy of 10.3 cause 3 days<weekend> after i bought the PM I wanted to give it back<unopened> and get the 1st gen 12" Powerbook with adaption cable, but alas went the student discount route and they had already processed it with Apple Australia *sigh* was even willing to pay more trhan I had to, to do this.
And my frigging 20" has a single stuck red PIXEL...bastard!
Large Monitor - 20" at least
OS X
Reliability.
At the time I got exactly that. I picked up a 20" LCD from my local Apple reseller. Which in turn meant I could buy either a brand spanking new Gen 1 G5 Tower but no other toys like the Airport setup for my PC and my wifes iBook, no Ram upgrade & MOST importantly no 40 Gig iPod which I now worship. So I bought they only G4 Tower that reseller had in stock (impulse buy), a single 1GHz model with a 1 Gig dollop of ram on top.
Fast forward a couple of months and they release the 20" iMac. I was shattered as I wanted this form factor over my tower, ohh well.
Now a couple more months on and I have this nagging little itch:
Should I sell my tower now and buy either a new soon to be released G5 Tower, or maybe a nice shiny lil PowerBook and continue using that screen (which I now view as too small!).
OR
STFU and stick with what I have?
Any thoughts and input most welcome.
Zoran
PS. I don't even have a SuperDrive which is bumming me out as I think that would be neat. Luckily the manager of the local reseller at least gave me a free copy of 10.3 cause 3 days<weekend> after i bought the PM I wanted to give it back<unopened> and get the 1st gen 12" Powerbook with adaption cable, but alas went the student discount route and they had already processed it with Apple Australia *sigh* was even willing to pay more trhan I had to, to do this.
And my frigging 20" has a single stuck red PIXEL...bastard!
Comments
get what you want. your computer is losing value daily -- and when the new g5's come out, it will be worth even less. sell it on ebay and get a PB or a G5. Obviously i prefer the PBs. I have a G5 at work, but i have been using my PB there -- just seems to be more solid than my G5 -- dont ask me why.
ebay, man. you wont regret it.