Michael Hartog

R.I.P. iBook

A couple of weeks ago I woke up and turned on my lappy. Except the screen was blank. I’ve had problems with the backlight before but even then I could barely see things or see them with a flashlight. Now it is completely black.

Seven years old and it was still kicking til the end. As much as a 2Ghz, gig of RAM, 128mb video card might seem nice, that old mac was perfectly fine for what it needed to do, and it ran very smoothly on linux.

I tell everyone who’s not using their computer for gaming, get the cheapest thing you can, because that’s all people have “needed” for years now. Vista does require a decent video card and probably 2 gigs of RAM and a dual core processor to run with all the features turned up but then again, no one needs Vista either. Windows 2000 is FINE for your business and XP is all your home users needs.

The unexpected death has left me without a mobile computer though, which means back to pen and paper for my notes. That’s not so much fun but I barely take notes anyway.

So if anyone has a 4 year old laptop, I’d gladly take it off of your hands.