Macs just rule for laptops!
Sorry to gush but yesterday I got stuck using my friends Dell Inspiron 8100 for some mundane stuff and it made me ever so glad to get back to my decidedly older but much better Powerbook 500.
I am still amazed at PC speed, his Dell was 1 gig P3 and had the Geforce2go chipset. It ran Warcraft 3 at 1024x768 with all effects on, but there were so many little things wrong too.
His battery is toast, it won't even hold a charge. His screen has a wobble of about 1/2 inch of in the hinge and goes forward and backward a bit. He is running XP Pro and for some reason, the backlighting periodically whacks out and dims for no reason. The only way to fix it is to unplug and replug back in the machine. The periodically restart it. Instead of his keyboard leaving oils from fingers on the screen, it has left literally marks where the LCD displays in slightly discolored fashion.
This was the top of the line Dell like 18 months, ago...
/me hugs Powerbook
OUCH, darn that bottom is hot!
Nick
I am still amazed at PC speed, his Dell was 1 gig P3 and had the Geforce2go chipset. It ran Warcraft 3 at 1024x768 with all effects on, but there were so many little things wrong too.
His battery is toast, it won't even hold a charge. His screen has a wobble of about 1/2 inch of in the hinge and goes forward and backward a bit. He is running XP Pro and for some reason, the backlighting periodically whacks out and dims for no reason. The only way to fix it is to unplug and replug back in the machine. The periodically restart it. Instead of his keyboard leaving oils from fingers on the screen, it has left literally marks where the LCD displays in slightly discolored fashion.
This was the top of the line Dell like 18 months, ago...
/me hugs Powerbook
OUCH, darn that bottom is hot!
Nick
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I ordered a powermac 17 to replace a 400mghz G3 powerbook lombard. the lombard still works fine as does your powerbook 500.
ps. buy stock in apple
Originally posted by JC
ps. buy stock in apple
Always good advice. While you are at it, but MORE Apple stock.
Originally posted by Not Unlike Myself
Always good advice. While you are at it, but MORE Apple stock.
I set up an automatic $50 monthly purchase of apple stock at www.buyandhold.com in a roth account
buyandhold.com is great because you can buy partial shares. the minimmum purchase is $20.00 and the charge for a buy is about $3.00
so, ps. buy MORE apple stock every month
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
What type of PowerBook 500 is it? Like a 540c or something? Or do you mean a 500 MHz PowerBook, like a G3 or G4?
Powerbook G4@500
Nick
Originally posted by Ti Fighter
yea i really want to pick up some apple stock but i dunno. Its so cheap now and i just know it will shoot up with the 970s this <prays>summer/fall</prays>
ITs a no brainer. as people switch to apple we gain market share. since we are only at about 4% of the market the up potential is amazing. It is however a long term investment as apple is still the only company that can make money consistantly and still be concidered in-trouble by experts
go to buy and hold as they are the cheapest way to start investing
www.buyandhold.com
Originally posted by trumptman
Sorry to gush but yesterday I got stuck using my friends Dell Inspiron 8100 for some mundane stuff and it made me ever so glad to get back to my decidedly older but much better Powerbook 500.
I am still amazed at PC speed, his Dell was 1 gig P3 and had the Geforce2go chipset. It ran Warcraft 3 at 1024x768 with all effects on, but there were so many little things wrong too.
His battery is toast, it won't even hold a charge. His screen has a wobble of about 1/2 inch of in the hinge and goes forward and backward a bit. He is running XP Pro and for some reason, the backlighting periodically whacks out and dims for no reason. The only way to fix it is to unplug and replug back in the machine. The periodically restart it. Instead of his keyboard leaving oils from fingers on the screen, it has left literally marks where the LCD displays in slightly discolored fashion.
This was the top of the line Dell like 18 months, ago...
/me hugs Powerbook
OUCH, darn that bottom is hot!
Nick
Yeah, I must agree that Apple is the best for notebooks. Dell is just very cheap crap that does not work half the time. I got a Sony notebook and I must say that I am pretty impressed with it. For the best of notebooks I would again say that Apple is the best for notebooks and for a PC that runs Win XP that Sony is the best for that.
This was the only thing that i could find close. It came out a week after i bought my pb. Am i sorry i bought the mac. No.
It's too bad that Apple doesn't make a desktop that rises to the same standard as their laptop offerings. For now, this house must remain a mac laptop/PC desktop operation.
Not too bad really. Wouldn't mind one if it was free.
The use one of thouse horrible pcmcia dial up cards that is such a hassle, unreliable, slow etc.
Our local mac rep gave us a demo of a 15" PB and dialled up our website use his T68i and bluetooth.
Sales were impressed and everone wanted one.
The bummer was the price.
Dobby.
Originally posted by dobby
The bummer was the price.
Hello steve, hello Apple, is anybody home? Still looking for that other 95% are you?
For what it is, the 15" Ti is not all that expensive.
Originally posted by Amorph
It sounds like the Mac rep's error was selling them PowerBooks, which are obviously overfeatured for what they need. He might have sold them all on iBooks.
For what it is, the 15" Ti is not all that expensive.
Actually if you add up the features superdrive, etc. it has the best bang for its buck for price and portability.
show me a pc with the same stats that is cheaper?
I agree on the bad quality of Dell machines. My previous machine was an Inspiron 8000. Total pain in the @$$. It's real heavy too. Avoid at all costs.
like 4 years ago, I wanted to buy...it was at 15...The broker said "Apple is a niche market...I don't think it's wise...blah blah blah"
so I didn't buy....I was willing to plunk down a lot of cash too.
so anyway, I didn't buy, but I watched the stock.
over the next 6 months it rocketed to 150
peaking there, then dropping to like 100 then splitting and hovering at 60 and then in one fell swoop it fell to 25 in one day. it's been down ever since.
I could have made a small fortune....but no.