G-Was

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 17:01

g41

Check it out, somewhat retro in design now but in 2001 they were the cutting edge. It’s an old G4 unit, this one (well, not THAT one actually but the one this blog is about) is a 466MHZ jobbie, and credit to Apple – we’re still using it (almost daily too as it goes)

Admittedly it doesn’t see much of YouTube or Faceache, nor does it do much video editing or high end design work (although it used to, if you can call a few leaflets and illustrator logos high end), no, it sits and stores, and downloads (and sometimes *burns* – woo hoo….!)…it could *Serve* too if we wanted but to be honest there’s not that much need for Directory services and replication around Johns house and our two laptops.

The staunch old beast reminds me a bit of a retired techie – it’s aware of the latest technology and could run it at a push, but doesn’t, nor does it really need to (or want to), it’s settled into something it’s quite happy doing and plods steadily away……..bit of a parody for life there perhaps?

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One Response to “G-Was”

  1. richbos says:

    April 11th, 2010 at 3:56 pm

    *UPDATE* – As of the end of 2009 the beast was re-installed and re-re-re-born again as a home desktop unit for some “New to Mac” friends. Now tasked only with basic internet jiggery pokery and word processing-y bits and bobs it’ll probably keep going for another five years until it get’s reincarnated again.

    Top machine.

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