I just finished secure-erasing the hard drive and then reloading the operating system on Erci’s old PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet II) that she bought brand new in January 1999. That makes this machine over 9 years old. It is being given away because we’ve moved on to smaller, lighter, faster machines a couple of times since then.
I noticed that once I’d finished loading Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS X 10.2.8 (it can dual boot or do classic emulation), that this thing is actually still very useable. Yeah, it wants a larger hard drive and more ram (can put in up to 250GB and 512MB), and yeah firewire and wireless would be nice (turns out both are available via PCMCIA (aka: PC) cards). Interesting.
If you are on a budget, you can pick these up pretty cheaply. Having a 9+ year lifespan in a laptop is stunning.
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