MultiFinder
Well-known member
I just got myself a 12" PowerBook G4! It's part of my plan to redo my computer setup here; right now I have a dual 500 G4 tower as my main desktop, and a MacBook as my main laptop and power machine. Since I really don't need a powerful computer when out and about, but I do need one at home, plus I'm kinda obsessive about small laptops, I decided to sell the MacBook, and get a 12" PowerBook and new desktop. This is the first part of that plan
It's the last revision, a 1.5GHz with 768 megs of RAM, and an 80 gig HDD. I wanted the 1.5GHz because it's the last revision, so all of the hardware bugs had been ironed out by that point, plus the scrolling trackpad, plus just being plenty speedy. I got it for $500 from a guy locally through Craigslist. It's in *really* nice shape; has two little dings in the lid, but those are just cosmetic. The battery in it is *epic* though; I ran it using it like I normally do for about five hours last night before I got too tired and had to go to sleep, and it still had about 20% left
It's now happily running Leopard (runs it like a champ!), and is an awesome replacement for the MacBook; it's smaller, lighter, and seems to run longer on its battery. Plus, this is the laptop that I've been lusting after gently since I first saw one just after getting back into Apple
Oh, here's the obligatory screenie:
http://i44.tinypic.com/34eerma.png
So anyway, that's my story of conquest
It's the last revision, a 1.5GHz with 768 megs of RAM, and an 80 gig HDD. I wanted the 1.5GHz because it's the last revision, so all of the hardware bugs had been ironed out by that point, plus the scrolling trackpad, plus just being plenty speedy. I got it for $500 from a guy locally through Craigslist. It's in *really* nice shape; has two little dings in the lid, but those are just cosmetic. The battery in it is *epic* though; I ran it using it like I normally do for about five hours last night before I got too tired and had to go to sleep, and it still had about 20% left
It's now happily running Leopard (runs it like a champ!), and is an awesome replacement for the MacBook; it's smaller, lighter, and seems to run longer on its battery. Plus, this is the laptop that I've been lusting after gently since I first saw one just after getting back into Apple
Oh, here's the obligatory screenie:
http://i44.tinypic.com/34eerma.png
So anyway, that's my story of conquest