Re: Looking for used MAC system to learn MACs
- From: Gregory Weston <uce@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:03:37 -0400
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"snoopy_@xxxxxxxxxx" <snoopy_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for recommendations for a used MAC system that I can
use to learn MACs.
First thing to learn: It's "Mac" (short for Macintosh) and not "MAC"
(which has to do either with networking, cosmetics or EFT depending on
your interests). There are, sadly, some people who will get judgmental
about the "wrong" capitalization, largely because historically it's been
a mark of people who were ignorant anti-Mac rabblerousers.
I have used Unix and Linux for the past 20 years,
but I'd like to understand a little more about how they work. I have
been looking at some used G4 and G5 systems, but not sure if these
will be lame ducks. I would like to kick around at the prompt level
to see how different it is from a normal Unix system , but I'd like to
learn some of the apps and gui stuff too so I don't look like an idiot
to friends. Any recommendations or help is welcomed. Thanks.
If you're really looking just to get some exposure as cheaply as
possible, look for a G4 mini on eBay. The performance is quite poor in
comparison to modern machines but for that reason it should be quite
inexpensive and has the added benefit of taking up very little space
alongside the day-to-day machine you already have and presumably will be
keeping. If your current display has multiple inputs you're probably
good to go. Even though it's comparatively slow it's still, for now, a
reasonably usable machine as long as it's got enough memory in it.
The writing does seem to be on the wall for the extant PPC machines,
though. The slowest Intel-based Mac ever - the 1.5GHz Core Solo mini -
holds its own against a 2x1.8GHz G5 tower, and that tower beats the
virtual pants off of the fastest G4 Mac (which the minis never were). So
if you really want a viable but cost-effective long-term machine for
more than basic productivity tasks, you're probably looking at
yesterday's iMac.
.
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