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Current workhorse is a 24" iMac 2.16 C2D, 2 Gig RAM, 500 Gig HD...screaming fast system.  I also have Boot Camp w/Windows XP, so it serves my Windows needs as well.  I bought it a little less than a year ago (in October).  Even though I love the machine very much, I *MAY* sell it if Apple releases a new iMac next week.  When I bought the iMac over a tower, I decided to combat lack of expansion by trading up to newer models more quickly......we'll see how that goes.

My last workhorse was a beige G3 powermac with 768 Megs of RAM and 3 hard drives.  It isn't in service right now...it is looking for a purpose.

Before that, I used a Performa 6300 CD.  It never gave me any trouble.  I donated it to my Dad, and he currently does all the billing for his business on it.

I am also keeping my eyes open for a good deal on a used Macbook.

3 years with this Mac Mini in about 20 days. Not a single hardware or software problem. Not a single upgrade either... I'm changing that with a gig of ram later this month.

My main system (one I use the most) is a IBM Thinkpad T20 - I've had it about 2 or 3 years now. Bought it used.

Last edited by resedit (2007-08-02 10:47 am)

I use about evenly my Quicksilver 867 and my AlBook 1.67
I've had both since they were the newest models out.

Mac Book Pro 1st gen
fully loaded with cpu upgrade (2.16), hard disk(7200 RPM) upgrade, 2 GB RAM and AppleCare (which I totally recommend, they already swapped my LCD panel because of dead pixels issue). Also with a spare battery.

I bought it in may 2006.

My secondary system is a G4 Sawtooth 500Mhz with the apple display, Geoforce 3 (flashed and unfortunately Quartz Extreme induces extreme screen flicker:( because it is flashed?) and 1.5GB ram.

I bought it in 2000.

Last edited by El Lombardo (2007-08-02 11:31 am)

Dual 1.8 G5 with a Blue Apple CRT that matched my old G3. I bought the G5 as a refurb from Apple. It works great for everything I do (including digital photography and some video editing) but I'm enough of an enthusiast that I'd like a newer system.

I have to wait for Leopard to come out and also to pay off the G5, so I'm probably looking at a 2 year wait.

maleko wrote:

resedit wrote:

My main system (one I use the most) is a IBM Thinkpad T20 - I've had it about 2 or 3 years now. Bought it used.

So, your a Linux user right?

Yes.
It currently has Fedora Core 6 on it.

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It came with 256MB - I swapped out one 128 chip and put in a 256 chip giving me 384MB (had to, one of the 128 chips died). It's 700MHz on AC / 550MHz battery (but I can boost it to 700MHz on battery if I need to).

I replaced the original battery.
I replaced the original hard drive when it died.
I replaced the original DVD-ROM when it died (with a brand spanking NOS one I found on eBay)
I replaced the internal nic as the one it came with was 56k only and didn't have ethernet. The card I replaced it with does both but I'll never use the 56k part.

I have a replacement keyboard (pull from a T22) and a replacement heat sink (might as do it if I'm breaking it down for keyboard replace) but I haven't done that replacement yet.

I have a port replicator and a dock, but the power supply on the dock died so I need to replace that (dock is nice as it has a pci slot, an expansion bay, and an extra 2 CardBus slots)

Only bum thing about the dock is that the better sound card in the dock doesn't work in Linux.

I use the laptop primarily for web stuff and LaTeX.
And it has my mp3 collection on it (backed up as uncompressed flac elsewhere)

Only CardBus cards I have are USB2, 54G Wireless, and a 10/100 nic that I don't need since replacing the internal communication card.

What's great about having an older laptop - people don't want to steal it, and if they do, it's not a huge loss.

Last edited by resedit (2007-08-02 4:48 pm)

Pariah wrote:

A Gigabyte G4 I bought 4 years ago, now sporting a 900mhz CPU.
Now I am just waiting to see if Apple will ever again make a computer I wont to buy. I might be using this thing till I die by the looks of it.

It's hard to imagine a 900MHz G4 wouldn't be a capable home machine for many more years to come.

Ribtorus wrote:

Pariah wrote:

A Gigabyte G4 I bought 4 years ago, now sporting a 900mhz CPU.
Now I am just waiting to see if Apple will ever again make a computer I wont to buy. I might be using this thing till I die by the looks of it.

It's hard to imagine a 900MHz G4 wouldn't be a capable home machine for many more years to come.

Oh, my old Mac will be in service till it dies, as a media server probably. It's getting kinda long in the tooth for daily tasks and the eminent purchase of a much higher resolution camera will be the end of it's useful desktop life for me.
I will be buying a new computer of some sort by the end of the year. I would prefer a Mac but we shall see. What ever I do end up with will  be running OSX regardless of manufacturer.

iMac G4  17".  4 years 5 months old.

Pariah wrote:

What ever I do end up with will  be running OSX regardless of manufacturer.

That's the spirit!!!  OSx86 here we come!

Ribtorus wrote:

Pariah wrote:

A Gigabyte G4 I bought 4 years ago, now sporting a 900mhz CPU.
Now I am just waiting to see if Apple will ever again make a computer I wont to buy. I might be using this thing till I die by the looks of it.

It's hard to imagine a 900MHz G4 wouldn't be a capable home machine for many more years to come.

Depends upon what you want to do, really.
Most people use computers that have far more power than they really need.

That's not a bad thing, but often the same tasks could be performed in a reasonable amount of time with a lot less power.

Video work - maybe not.
Some advanced still digital work - maybe not.

Most of what people do though, a 600MHz machine is still plenty powerful to accomplish the task in a reasonable amount of time.