[G4] Re: Mac Classic Environment

[Ralph Garrett]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Celia Lawton-Livingstone wrote:


>
> Here in the UK I would estimate 90 - 95% of all computers are PCs.   
> In fact until I got this one I had never actually seen a Mac in  
> real life.  I had always considered them an over-priced poor cousin  
> of the PC, but then I was judging them by PC standards... MS  
> indoctrination? I now realise that Macs are far more durable and  
> long-lived than PCs and even the old ones are pretty powerful  
> compared to a PC of the same era (I definately need to know more  
> about the chip and motherboard architecture)... try running XP or  
> Vista on a 1999 built PC... huh, I think not!


I have a Mac 8600 circa 1996 with a G4 CPU running at 450 MHz (2  
generations above the CPU it shipped with) a Gig of RAM, 5 internal  
hard drives and running OS X.3. Yes they did and do make some durable  
machines.