[geeks] Yow what an upgrade...

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Nothing important. It's just that I picked up an old beige G3 for the 
wife last Friday at surplus. $40 for a 233mhz, rev B, RagePro 2mb video, 
288mb ram, a 4gb disk (quickly supplemented with an old 9gb ide I had 
laying around) and cdrom. Not too bad.

But what gets me is that we sometimes forget what it's like to jump the 
generations. Till then she had a 7600/132 with 144mb - decent but no 
screamer. Netscape 7 crawled on that 604; only the DSL connection made 
it tolerable to her. Now she's ecstatic because her games are faster, 
her spreadsheets launch and recalculate much faster and it doesn't take 
forever to check her email or place a milk order. Wild.

Pity I don't have the $$$ to give her a TiBook...

Of course, this also leaves me with a 7600 to either find a use for, 
upgrade or sell. Hmm... Yellowdog and OpenMCL is sounding very 
interesting right now...

William
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