Thursday, September 6, 2007

Apple Powerbook G4

So I just got a used Powerbook G4 667mhz DVI ... It was wiped when I got it and I had to reload the 9.22 and 10.1.4 on it from the cd's the first time around I didn't get the restore disks to work so I had to go with just 10.1 and that wasn't the greatest ... but shortly after I started all that the hard drive that I was warned was going bad, well yep it did and what a sound click click click ... ok so lets put the 80gb I pulled out of my sager in it ... well why did I pull it out ... because it was having issues under heavy load ... yes well I got two good days out of it ... with 10.4.10 tiger on it ... did you know that you can use SuperDuper to clone one system to another and it will work perfect. So after two full and I do mean full days playing with 10.4.10 and another two-three days with 10.1.5 what do I think of OS X and apple hardware ... PPC rocks and always has ... FreeBSD is a great OS and Apple still knows how to put it all together with a great gui ... I'm seriously thinking about a new Apple laptop when it's time to replace the workhorse Sager NP4780. I don't know if the Sager will be the workhorse anymore now that I've got a powerbook I may start moving more and more to the apple and just play games on the sager in XP ... if I had a intel mac I might just give away the Sager and play games on the Mac if I had to dual boot with XP that wouldn't be the end of the world