I've come across a pretty nice seeming off-lease Powerbook for 400 bucks. Stats are:
OSX 10.4
1 GB RAM
1.67 GHZ G4
80 GB HDD
SuperDrive
Seems like a decent deal, I was looking at a Macbook (older Core Duo model maybe) but I can't find anything even in the same league price-wise. Is this old powerbook a decent machine still? I'm sure speed-wise it'll run what I need it to (Watching DVDs, web browsing, Itunes, whatever) but I'm concerned about finding software that'll still run on a G4 six months from now. If Itunes and Firefox aren't being made G4 compatible any longer, that's going to kind of kill this thing's usefulness.
OSX 10.4
1 GB RAM
1.67 GHZ G4
80 GB HDD
SuperDrive
Seems like a decent deal, I was looking at a Macbook (older Core Duo model maybe) but I can't find anything even in the same league price-wise. Is this old powerbook a decent machine still? I'm sure speed-wise it'll run what I need it to (Watching DVDs, web browsing, Itunes, whatever) but I'm concerned about finding software that'll still run on a G4 six months from now. If Itunes and Firefox aren't being made G4 compatible any longer, that's going to kind of kill this thing's usefulness.