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  • From: Evan Zimmerman <evan.zimmerman AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Apple goes for market share
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:10:29 -0500

Ditto... I've got World of Warcraft running happily (and smoothly) on
my 2 year old 800mhz powerbook -- and they say macs can't do games.


Evan




On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:02:43 -0500, Tanner Lovelace
<clubjuggler AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:41:18 -0500, Noah <noahgodwin AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Life expectancy? are you talking about hardware reliablility or useful
> > lifespan? Hardware reliability is moot. It will be obsolete by the time
> > the
> > warranty is expired. Useful lifespan is limited by your own desire to run
> > the latest software. If you are content to use the same version of the
> > software you are currently using, most machines can be useful for a very
> > long time.
>
> Actually, while the last sentence is true, it also doesn't tell the
> entire story.
> Yes, you can stay at the same software level if you want, but with Apple
> products you can also use the latest software for a long time. My main
> laptop is a 600Mhz G3 iBook. It's at least 3 years old by now (if not
> older)
> and runs the latest version of OS X, all the apps they provide,
> Firefox, thunderbird,
> etc... and runs them quite well. True it's not as fast a a 1GHz G4
> iBook/powerbook,
> but it works well enough for me to do whatever I want to do.
>
> Tanner
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