Re: computer history for you older gals and guys

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computer history for you older gals and guys
\ squaredancer (13 Dec 2007)
. \ Gus Richter (13 Dec 2007)
. . \ Gus Richter (14 Dec 2007)
. \ Michael (13 Dec 2007)
. . \ Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T (14 Dec 2007)
. . . \ Terry R. (14 Dec 2007)
. . . . \ David E. Ross (14 Dec 2007)
. . . . . \ Terry R. (14 Dec 2007)
. . . . . \ John McWilliams (14 Dec 2007)
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. . . . \ Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T (15 Dec 2007)
. \ David E. Ross (13 Dec 2007)
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Subject:	Re: computer history for you older gals and guys
Group:	Mozilla-general
From:	Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T
Date:	15 Dec 2007

Terry R. wrote:
> On 12/13/2007 4:06 PM On a whim, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T pounded out on
> the keyboard
>
>> In other words about 9 month after I bought my PB 17" they came out
>> with the MacBook 17" (Intel machine).
>
> Did that make your PB obsolete? No.
>
>>
>> and about 9 months after I bought my SE/30 Brand new from apple
>> (through an Apple dealer They came out with the 6100/7100/8100 series.
>> Then when I bought the 7100/6 in nine months They came out with first
>> the G3 then the g4 series. By the time I get around to getting the
>> latest tower with the latest version of the xenon processor something
>> will come out 10 times stronger.
>>
>> You just can win. One thing though Windows PC's have it worse there
>> machines become obsolete about three months after hitting the market.
>
> Phillip, once again you down talk PC's without any facts. Why would a
> PC become obsolete after 3 months? I've been using this workstation for
> over 3 years. It's an AMD 2800+ and it runs everything fine. FAR from
> obsolete. I know a few people still running 266 MHz machines still on
> Win98. It does what they need done and they're happy.
>
>>
>> At least with a Mac you can average about 7 years service out of them.
>>
>
> Right. Try running Leopard on a 7 year old Mac and let me know how that
> works for you. I have one client with about 6 Mac's and the oldest ones
> are about 3 years and they run so slow even on (Jaguar?) it's not worth it.
>
Well look up when the G4-500 came out. I won't run Leopard. But does
fine with OSX.4.11 on a Firewire external drive. G$-500 should be
closing in on 6 or 7 years old and it will probably be Sept 2008 before
the next generation of the xenon chip will be out which will probably be
when I order one.

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