Ethelred Unraed's Journal: Ethelred's Apple museum

In a previous JE, bechtros writes:

cold day in hell when apple gets one dollar of my money, ever.

I'm tens of thousands of dollars past that. ;-)

Oof. Scary though, actually, how much His Steveness and cohorts have gotten out of me...

First, a Macintosh IIsi, 14" Apple monitor, Personal LaserWriter NTR -- that right there was over $4,000 at the time (1991).

My current setup (Dual G5 2x2 GHz, two 17" Apple Studio Display TFTs, iSight) cost almost €4,000 IIRC, not counting non-Apple products, and then there's the €1,000 I spent on the iBook G4 I have, and €450 on a Mac mini G4.

Then in the meantime I've had a dual G4 2x450 MHz (which BoE now uses), a Pismo G3 laptop, a beige G3/266, and a Performa 6200, all bought new...plus a PowerMac 9600, a 21" Apple CRT monitor and an LC II that I got used...and BoE's original LC II and Performa 630...Jesus, that's a lot of money. *gulp*

And nearly all of it is still sitting here in my workroom, with various old modems, Apple mice and keyboards, and what-all else. (I finally tossed the LaserWriter NTR and the two 14" Apple monitors last year before we moved to the new apartment. The NTR still worked, but was extremely flaky and slow; the monitors "worked" but were badly distorted, and one had gotten to be rather dim.)

I have a mini-museum here!

The truly sad part? The IIsi was bought on a student loan. My parents just paid off that loan last year. :-/

Not ready for another Apple

[jawtheshark]

I loved my iBook G3/600MHz/640MB RAM/Airport Express.... I would still use it if it didn't die from the dreaded logic board failure and it fell out of the tiny margin of the Apple Extended Warranty. Sucks to be me. Kept it for over a year in a closet, when I finally found a way to get the data off it, and then I sold it on ebay for a bit more than 200&euro.

Since then Intel transition was going on when the iBook broke down, there was no way in hell I'd buy a new G4 based laptop. So, I waited and wen

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[Ethelred Unraed]

there was no way in hell I'd buy a new G4 based laptop.

The sad thing is that for me, it makes little to no sense to get an Intel Mac right now. My G5 is fast enough (I have 3 GB of RAM -- RAM is more of a problem for me than processor speed) and none of the major programs I use is available for Intel. Rosetta "works", but not well enough for me to justify buying a new Intel Mac, when overall it wouldn't be any faster than what I have now -- at least not until Intel-native software comes out.

Even then

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[jawtheshark]

Your situation is a situation in which many professionals are, you will have to bite the bullet one day. That day is probably far into the future. I have an uncle that is an artist. He has sworn on Macs since forever and he has two G4's that are running Mac OS 9. Same situation, other OS: he would have to rebuy all his Adobe products to get them to run on OS X (without using "Classic", which is a performance problem as is Rosetta)

For me it's a non-issue, because I pretty much run entirely on Free sof

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[artifex2004]

I'd be happy to trade you my G4 1.42GHz Mac Mini w/ 1GB RAM and a BT dongle for an Intel Mac Mini.
It's the revision with the modem built in, even.
Just think how much you will save on software! :)

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[jawtheshark]

Well, I'd trade a Mac Mini Intel for a Cube G4... ;-)

you drive a hard bargain

[artifex2004]

Well, I'd trade a Mac Mini Intel for a Cube G4... ;-)

I guess I could throw in my 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube, too. But that might spindle and mutilate the local space/time continuum.

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[jawtheshark]

But that might spindle and mutilate the local space/time continuum.

Afraid? Chicken! ;-)

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[artifex2004]

Afraid? Chicken! ;-)

No, of course not. I'm merely giving warning.
If you like, I'll even put the stickers back on, so you can see the colors of your doom. :)

(Just kidding. This one was never modified.)

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[jawtheshark]

:-) We ruined my uncles Rubiks Cube that way. We were kids, and he was the latecomer and thus a teenager. I gues he must have been pissed.

I bought a Rubiks Cube recently, but I still can't solve it... *sigh*

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[artifex2004]

The best way, at least with the older, looser ones that were hand-assembled, was to twist them at two different angles until a corner piece popped out.
Then you could disassemble the rest, and re-orient the pieces as needed.

How much?

[BWJones]

lets see..... if I were to add up what I've spent on that companies (Apple) products, I would blanch. However, given that each purchase (home and work) has been an investment targeted at returning more, I can honestly say that it has been well worth it.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

You don't understand. I calculate that in today's dollars I have consumed roughly $98,310 worth of food. I want that money back!

Cheers,

Ethelred

PS: For the humor-impaired, please keep in mind that I am part Scottish, and that that part of me seems to come to the fore as I get older, raise children, pay bills, watch the Visa card balance drift ever upwards with relentless support from BoE, etc.

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[BWJones]

Aye! :-)

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[ces]

For the humor-impaired, please keep in mind that I am part Scottish, and that that part of me seems to come to the fore as I get older

Me too!

Though in my case it seems to make me a sucker for sales and 'good deals'. I recently ended up spending $350 on books and $400 on cookware I didn't really need because they were on sale for 50% off list.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

My answer to that (that's BoE's usual justification for buying something) is "it's even cheaper if you don't buy it". :-)

Cheers,

Ethelred

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[ces]

Yea but there is that problem where it is something I rather want and will pay more for later if I buy a little at a time.

Of course I'm only 1/4 Scotts-Irish with 1/4 Dutch and the rest being various mixed bits from the British Isles, Germany, and the former Austrian Empire.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

Actually, I'm even less Scottish -- at best 1/8 Scots-Irish, with a sliver of French-Swiss and Dutch thrown in, with the rest being roughly equal parts English and German.

Though the German bits are mostly Swabian -- and the Swabians, so the joke goes in Germany, are the Scots who were thrown out for being too stingy.

What's worse is that my wife is from Lippe, which is known in northern Germany as being even worse than the Swabians. So the Confessor and Gloriana are part Swabian, part Lippisch, and part

His Steveness

[Alioth]

The first Apple computer I bought was my 12in. PowerBook G4 about 2 years ago. It was the best laptop I'd used then and I think it still is now - it looks *nice*, it really is Plug and Play (I've gone to friend's houses, plugged into their printer and just used it - no "New Hardware Detected" - it just worked), and it works flawlessly with my video camera. It was also cheaper than the equivalent performance and sized Sony Vaio. It just worked with my Bluetooth phone, which I use when mobile as a GPRS modem

I less than 3 Apple!

[Some Woman]

My first computer was my parents' PowerMac 7200, which they bought when I was in 9th grade. Yes, I'm a young'un and we were late to the home computer market.

My second computer was my beloved blueberry iMac G3 (2nd gen, I believe- just after bondi blue). It was my high school graduation present.

The first computer that I ever purchased myself is my current one, Amelia: Compy G5. Adopted 19 months ago, she is a 20-inch iMac G5. She has two dead pixels and a good life in a loving home (namely, mine). I mad

I have...

[TechnoLust]

no Apple computers. But I DO have a MacIntosh and a JonaGold on my desk. (I already ate the Golden Delicious, which unfortunately was mealy.)

I don't even have the computers

[nocomment]

But I've got a parts museum!!!! LOL

Want a nubus ethernet card for that IIsi? I've got one. *hangs head in shame*

Fruit of the Jobs

[ces]

Given that I spent a lot of time with NeXTStep in the early 90's I've lusted after an OS X capable box ever since it came out. Unfortunately I've not been able to justify purchasing one to myself yet.

I see an iPod in my future and the 20" iMac looks attractive for various reasons.

Perhaps I may pick up an older used OS X capable Mac on the cheap once some of my current space issues are solved. We shall see.