G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)

On 12 September 2016 at 23:10, Richard Loken <rlloken at telus.net> wrote: Actually, now that you come to mention it, so am I. I had -- have -- a G4 as well as the Core i5 I'm typing on. It was never my main machine, though. The thing I like about the minis, I guess, is that I have free choice of display, keyboard and mouse. I like iMacs -- I have a dead G5, too -- but they're not very expandable and if they die you can't reuse the screen. Whereas my Mac mini has 3rd party RAM and both an SSD and an HD (upgrades from a Toshiba desktop-replacement notebook that the Mac replaced) on a 3rd party bracket, and I'm using a Dell 5-button mouse and an Apple Extended keyboard from '97 or so, on a 3rd-party ADB-USB adaptor. And a pair of mismatched 2nd hand 23" LCDs. All cheap, all used and repurposed. I don't like Apple's modern keyboards, mice, trackpads etc., so if I bought a new iPad, they'd be effectively wasted. The Retina iMac has a lovely screen, but it's also jolly expensive and these sub-$100 used items are good enough. Small, cheap, quiet, does the job. And with the original '80s keyboard, it _feels_ (and sounds) like a proper (i.e. '80s) Mac when I'm typing on it. :-) -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) ? +420 702 829 053 (?R)