[rescue] WTB/Advice: Mac iBook/PowerBook

[William Enestvedt]

> OK... Most g3 and up powerbooks can do this, its just a matter 
> of how *WELL* it works.
>
   Grabbing the wheel and swerving the topic to one side, can you discuss
how well OS X runs on the lower-end G3 iMacs (500 MHz G3, I think) that
they're peddling now? (I just want to open terminals to SSH into work, plus
surf the web and experiment with a tiny bit of digital vdeo: mostly one
minutes grabs from my Sony camcorder.)
> 
> Too bad, macs are fun machines.
>
   Tell it!
   If only I could get some BSD lovin' for my PowerBook 1400 with no
internal CD-ROM. (I have a pile of external SCSI deivces: CD drive, Zip 100,
Jaz drive; got a good external display card, too.) *sigh* The little guy is
all souped-up, too, with a 10GB drive and maximum RAM, just sitting there,
and even a wireless card that actually works under Mac OS 8.6 on the campus
network, too.
>
> I would recommend a Pismo or a TiBook over the iceBook for 
> most people, but in this case price is probably a more 
> deciding factor than speed.
> 
   I used to support Macs, but I never got to use "consumer" OS X, only OS X
Server on a B&W G3 tower. I'm currently working on convincing my wife to buy
a Mac but it will be *minimal* spending. So again I ask, given that any
Apple portable is too expensive (and fragile, with a 3 year-old and another
on the way), is a cheap iMac acceptable for OS X stuff?
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI