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What do I do with an OLD MAC

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Preclaro_tipo

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Dec 6, 2003
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Hey, I have a Ruby Red iMac and an 600 mhz G3 iBook, both in excellent working order, but typical scratches, drops :eek: , etc of older machines.

but my questions is, what the heck to i do with them, it would hurt to walk them to the dumpster, but the ruby is deathly slow and the ibook still has a lot of life IMO.

HELP.
 
I'm sure there are plenty of people who wouldn't mind taking them off your hands (like me). Or put them on craigslist/ebay for a few bucks and buy something fun for your new computer.
 
They are still useful computers. Sure they are not top of the line anymore, but you have both portability and reliability. The 600mhz is decent and I have been using mine for over 4 years now. If you are just doing basic things, internet, word processing, etc, then that is completely fine, but if you want more demanding programs, consider buying new or a newer model. As for selling them, the ibook retains it's value very well depending on what it's specs are. Especially that ibook, dunno why. Probably because the newer ibooks have more bells and whistles, but are basically designed to do the same thing. And if you do sell them, consider ebay or craigslist unless you can find a friend to take them off you.
 
Indeed. Both of those are new enough to run OSX, and therefore to be useful (especially the iBook--that's a perfectly good laptop with enough RAM in it). If you don't want to bother selling them (which by definition gets them to a "good home", since even if the price is low somebody's not going to buy if they don't want it), give them to a charity that will do some good with them.
 
By the way, it's Mac. Not MAC.

MAC:
MAC Address (Media Access Control Address) - A unique 128-bit address of a network card or device. The first part of the address is unique to the company that produced the device, and beyond that it is a sequence of digits unique to a single device manufactured by a company.

but anyway, I'd make the Ruby into a server... I put my 500 to do that a while back and worked great, like really good, extremely happy with it.
 
I don't recommend putting Linux on, as, I just don't see the point - OS X does what Linux does and more.

If you want to use it as a server, I would recommend OS X Server. Works great. :)
 
lilstewart said:
I don't recommend putting Linux on, as, I just don't see the point - OS X does what Linux does and more.

If you want to use it as a server, I would recommend OS X Server. Works great. :)
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yes, but linux is easier to telenet into, it's free, and it's less CPU intensive because it doesn't have a fancy GUI.
 
True, I guess it would be a better solution to him as the machine isn't super fast, but linux can be a little difficult if you dont' know what your doing.

And I think your exaggerating with it's sooo slow with the Ruby, my G3 500 runs Tiger pretty well, just for Mail, iChat, and Safari with only 256MB RAM. My sister loves it.
 
lilstewart said:
True, I guess it would be a better solution to him as the machine isn't super fast, but linux can be a little difficult if you dont' know what your doing.
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there's a reason linuxheads call it n00buntu;)
 
lilstewart said:
It's still a bit more difficult than OS X. ;)
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OS X client yes, but OS X server? I don't know. Also, LAMPstack (which comes with ubuntu server) has more up to date versions of MySQL, Apache, and php.
 
But, OS X has more support for both Ruby and Rails. But, I don't think either of his machines would be able to run as a webserver. ;)

What do you think your going to do with them?
 
lilstewart said:
If you want to use it as a server, I would recommend OS X Server. Works great. :)
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Indeed it does, but putting a $500 piece of software on a $50 computer seems a little odd, to say the least. Not everybody has a copy of OSX server just laying around to dump on old Macs.

If you're using the Ruby as a very simple fileserver and are a bit geeky, Linux is probably the better choice. If, on the other hand, you actually want to use the computer as a desktop, OSX all the way.
 
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