[rescue] looking for titanium powerbook

John Floren john at jfloren.net
Sun Dec 23 18:59:08 CST 2018


A G3 would be fine, my first-gen iMac is a G3 without much memory, but
the main reason I want the latest-gen laptop is that I want the
highest possible resolution. OS 9 looks really good at high resolution
although like all old operating systems it works fine at low res too.

john

On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 2:57 PM Hauke Fath
<hauke at espresso.rhein-neckar.de> wrote:
>
> At 14:41 Uhr -0800 22.12.2018, John Floren wrote:
> >I'd like to get a titanium Powerbook,
> >the "best" OS 9 capable laptop,
>
> I had a GBit G4/550 PowerBook back in the days(*), and these buggers run
> awfully hot - 3rd party fan trays were all the rage at the time. I find my
> G3 Pismo a lot more pleasant to handle, and it certainly has enough power
> for System 9, if you can do without a cdrom writer. I don't know about the
> battery situation though.
>
> Cheerio,
> hauke
>
>
> * boxed in pieces, because of video controller BGA failure
>
>
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