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It's the computer I dreamed about getting five years ago - The blue and white powermac G3. 350 MHz, 384MB Ram. Whopping 6GB hard drive. First mac to have firewire.
Only $200 (shipped!) off ebay. Not a bad deal.
It's a pretty slow, old machine, but it still has plenty of life left in it. I use one at a side job that's almost identical, running os x 10.3, and it runs just fine for normal tasks. I can be editing code, have multiple safari tabs open, stream AAR, and it never seems to bog. Heck, I should even be able to manage a little editing in iMovie (I've seen Final Cut pro on an old g3 too, but it struggles).
I used to be a huge Mac geek (and Apple II before that - my folks are educators), but I haven't had a new mac since my old powerbook 1400. When I started my computer sci degree I moved to Linux on Intel because everything we did was UNIX.
Well, Mac OS X *is* UNIX. And it rules. And, since I'm a freelance tech, I need to know how to work all the operating systems.
I sent the money order off today (I know what you're thinking, but I checked out the guys feedback and everything looks like he's a legit small computer shop in Washington state who was sick of people bouncing checks). Now I'll just be waiting the week or two in anticipation until my new old machine finally gets here!
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