I just don't like to stand next to such people any more, since I now believe them to be insane." "I don't doubt some people prefer to use Macs than other types of computer. And with hacks, apparently 10.5 is slow enough on older models anyway that the few who have tried have said they got 10.5 on but went back to 10.(whatever they had) anyway for speed. *10.5 needs an G4-833 or up without hacks. The rest usually run OS9 with OSX 10.2 or so, to run older apps they have. they usually have a newer mac to get their quality time in with recent-vintage OSX. They reason, if they can't put 10.5 on there anyway*, they might as well run something else like Ubuntu.
#Macbook g4 shit Pc#
I get actually a good fraction of the Mac purchasers commenting "Oh I was going to put Ubuntu on there anyway, that saves some time" (compared to the PC buyers). we put Ubuntu on all our Macs and PCs, and the result is interesting. at first.) The flowerpot Imacs have proven more reliable. the irony of a Apple being downed by faulty IBM components was rather amusing. Melted CPUs, blown power supplies, faulty motherboards, some work but need a new hard disk (they had IBM Desktars. The newer G4s, we get approximately an 80% failure rate on them. I work in a computer surplus, the 400mhz or so (Graphite and Yikes!) G4s were reliable, but sloooow. I just don't like to stand next to such people any more, since I now believe them to be insane.
I don't doubt some people prefer to use Macs than other types of computer. Never has the mendacity of the Apple fan base been thrown into harsher relief than in the following hour of discovery. I remember well being told by many how much easier to use this was than the hated Windows 98.
#Macbook g4 shit full#
The much-vaunted design called for the heaviest thing in the case (the power supply) to be secured a foot above the most delicate thing (the motherboard) so you needed three hands when dismounting it, and for the depleted-uranium CRT to be perched on a delicate ribbon of perspex that broke when I looked at it wrong from five feet away.Īfter I got it working again I was treated to OS 9 in full swing. You'd have thought for three hundred dollars the power supply would have been protected by a fuse or circuit breaker. A new power supply cost almost three hundred dollars and the bios battery was nearly twenty. I've got another term, based on my adventures while trying to repair my brother-in-law's G4 - "Pile of Crap".Įverything from the battery used to keep the bios alive upwards was three times more expensive as on my similarly-aged PC, which suffered none of the failure modes this pile of overpriced garbage did.