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Babe, you know I'd volunteer to champion windows if'n I were up to it ... Instead I'll be one of those pretty, useless, sidelines women .. hows'about that? [smile]
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Well, the 5300-series was just a (poorly-made) group of PowerBooks. See, "PowerBook" is imaginative.
These days Apple just makes G3s and iMacs. There used to be Performas, Quadras, Centrises, LCs, Classics, and all kinds of other nifty names. And then there were the clone companies, like Power Computing, whose line included PowerWaves, PowerTowers, PowerCenters, PowerBases, PowerCurves, and there was almost the PowerTrip laptop. Lots of power there.
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No, it wasn't a 5300. It was a 190cs. Admittedly, not nearly the top of the line (but it was all I could afford at that time). To be fair, I'm sure the more expensive, better powered Macs aren't nearly as problematic. Still, I did pay a reasonable amount of money for it and it would've been nice if the computer had lasted more than a year.
I don't actually hate Macs; it's just that I don't see that much benefit in switching over from Wintel based machines. And I personally don't think the Mac OS is vastly superior to Windows. Feel free to persuade me otherwise.
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Well, the 190 was essentially the 5300 with a 68040 processor, so it had similar quality problems. (Two of these actually burst into flames, although this happened at Apple's headquarters.)
This page has a few outdated links, but is still useful.
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*realizing that she has now started some sort of mac/windows argument, the original poster of the topic goes O_o and then pulls a CC*
*in other words, she just shakes her head and walks away*
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Shouting "I hate Macs!" in a crowded thread will always start an argument.
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Wow, I started a topic that has 25 replies! Cool! *now making her newbie-ness apparent* *then walks back out*
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Whether or not they are better machines, I hear the imac's are selling quite well, which I find rather peculiar for a computer that has no disk drive and looks like a child's toy IMHO.
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Of course, the problem with iMac's is that next year they'll be hopelessly behind the pace of technology. On the other hand, if Macintosh then release a better iMac, they've kinda missed the point...
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