Hey guys
For my birthday, my father bought me a Acer V3-112P, in the months that I've had it. I just haven't been able to get along with it, the keyboard is really annoying compared to my Pismo and the touchpad is a nightmare. To left click you literarlly need your finger in the bottom left corner for it to register as a left and not a right click. Now with the the addition of Windows 10, I'm really getting to the last straw with the machine. It's slow, surfs webpages with amazing sluggishness and over all isn't much fun to use.
Which leads me to the subject of this post, I was looking at Macbooks on ebay, I can't afford a new one so was looking at the older 2008 models. However I've read that most of the early intel Macbooks suffered from serious heat issues, with regular logic board failures. After reading this, I was really put off the Macbook Pro idea, as I dont want a repeat of my G3 iBook, baking the logical board in the ovan and all that reflow stress. So that left me looking at the last series of PPC Powerbooks, the G4 aluminum, the 15" to be specific.
It looks like a really nice machine and after checking geekbench, I discovered the G4 1.67Ghz actually scores only 100-140+ points behind my Acer. In fact on some of the tests it scores higher then the Acer. I know it's an old machine, but my use for it would be writing, surfing and photoshop, the most predominant of these being writing. I do own a G4 1.44ghz iBook, but it's only a 12" screen, so not great for doing photoshop or the sharpest when it comes to surfing.
Just wondered if anyone on here is still rocking a G4 Powerbook and how they find it.
For my birthday, my father bought me a Acer V3-112P, in the months that I've had it. I just haven't been able to get along with it, the keyboard is really annoying compared to my Pismo and the touchpad is a nightmare. To left click you literarlly need your finger in the bottom left corner for it to register as a left and not a right click. Now with the the addition of Windows 10, I'm really getting to the last straw with the machine. It's slow, surfs webpages with amazing sluggishness and over all isn't much fun to use.
Which leads me to the subject of this post, I was looking at Macbooks on ebay, I can't afford a new one so was looking at the older 2008 models. However I've read that most of the early intel Macbooks suffered from serious heat issues, with regular logic board failures. After reading this, I was really put off the Macbook Pro idea, as I dont want a repeat of my G3 iBook, baking the logical board in the ovan and all that reflow stress. So that left me looking at the last series of PPC Powerbooks, the G4 aluminum, the 15" to be specific.
It looks like a really nice machine and after checking geekbench, I discovered the G4 1.67Ghz actually scores only 100-140+ points behind my Acer. In fact on some of the tests it scores higher then the Acer. I know it's an old machine, but my use for it would be writing, surfing and photoshop, the most predominant of these being writing. I do own a G4 1.44ghz iBook, but it's only a 12" screen, so not great for doing photoshop or the sharpest when it comes to surfing.
Just wondered if anyone on here is still rocking a G4 Powerbook and how they find it.
and the worst being that people dont seem to look after them, all the one's on ebay seem to be scratched or dented.
