[G4] Sound and other concerns

[Ronald Steinke]

On 16 Jun, 2007, at 3:25 PM, John Niven wrote:

> Eric said he had a DE G4 tower. I have never seen one
> of those but the specs agree with him - no sound
> input!

Many thanks for the pointer toward MacTracker. I checked there also  
and, sure enough, the model Eric has DOES NOT have an audio input  
socket. Neither do any of the other QuickSilver models, nor the  
Digital Audio model.

Like you, I cannot explain Apple's logic with this situation. It does  
seem over-strange to delete audio input ability on those models in  
particular and not on other/later models. Do you think that customer  
feedback might have brought back the audio input socket?

Maybe next year we will start getting QuickSilver models for  
recycling, but in the mean time, I have a couple pallets of high-end  
slot-loading iMacs and about half a pallet of earlier G4s than Eric's  
waiting for me to attack next week. The program I volunteer with  
refurbishes computers donated by various California government  
agencies and places them in school classrooms at as low a price as  
possible.