Something has to be said about the Wallstreet's line of devices, at least the second iteration.
I scored a nice one for next to nothing last year and have given it only recently love and attention.
The screen is still phenomenal. I've hardly ever enjoyed a screen so much as with this model. Don't really know if it's the size or ratio of 4:3 or both.
And I love the boot-from-PC-card feature. A tad slower than internal hard drive, but a working system is only minutes away by swapping the CF it into a backup machine. Or booting from the backup CF in case of card failure.
The 256 MB memory are plenty and even the slower 233 Mhz is still enough for my tasks (a bit of surfing, Word, Email.
I was shocked seeing it playing Youtube fairly well with the Classilla plugin.
Eager to see how it compares with a newly liberated Pismo that's on its way. Sometimes it's the details about a machine that makes you either love it or hate it.
So far, of all my vintage acquisitions, this one will be getting the most love. The lack of USB could prove troublesome for quick file transfer onto another machine in the future. I know, there are cards, but at $29 they seem to sell for I don't think I'm going to upgrade it.
Either way, it's a worthwhile Mac.
I scored a nice one for next to nothing last year and have given it only recently love and attention.
The screen is still phenomenal. I've hardly ever enjoyed a screen so much as with this model. Don't really know if it's the size or ratio of 4:3 or both.
And I love the boot-from-PC-card feature. A tad slower than internal hard drive, but a working system is only minutes away by swapping the CF it into a backup machine. Or booting from the backup CF in case of card failure.
The 256 MB memory are plenty and even the slower 233 Mhz is still enough for my tasks (a bit of surfing, Word, Email.
I was shocked seeing it playing Youtube fairly well with the Classilla plugin.
Eager to see how it compares with a newly liberated Pismo that's on its way. Sometimes it's the details about a machine that makes you either love it or hate it.
So far, of all my vintage acquisitions, this one will be getting the most love. The lack of USB could prove troublesome for quick file transfer onto another machine in the future. I know, there are cards, but at $29 they seem to sell for I don't think I'm going to upgrade it.
Either way, it's a worthwhile Mac.