Well, here I sit, on my couch, writing from my shiny new PowerBook G4. I’ve been working on an aging blue & white G3 since, well, I think since 1999. About a month after I bought it, the G4s were announced. While I was originally (and understandably) frustrated, I soon learned better.
That old G3 was a workhorse — I love it. The thing is rock-solid. Over the past couple years, I’ve had to give it some love to keep it going — an extra 640MB of RAM, a new internal CD/DVD drive, and two additional hard drives. It is currently choking under the weight of Adobe CS (’course, so is my dual processor G5 at work, but that’s for another post), but it’s still a great, solid computer.
It may not the most trendy way to work, but I strongly believe in buying late models (if not the very last, as my G3 was), rather than the newest thing. I’ve had enough experience through school, work and friends (and friends of friends) to see that the first few rounds of any new Apple model are lemons. I love Apple, but their early models crap. Ask anyone who owns a G5 iMac. Or an early G4 iBook.
The G3 will stay in use, probably as a file server of sorts, seeing as it has 240GB of hard drive space to my laptop’s 80, but this probably marks the end of it as my primary machine. So thank you, old G3. Thank you for a few years of rock-solid computing and companionship. And here’s to what will hopefully be an equally good computer.
Out with the old,
in with the new!
