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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: cahult on 17 August 2005, 15:26

Title: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: cahult on 17 August 2005, 15:26

http://www.tuaw.com/2005/08/16/50-ibooks-cause-stampede/

Who said macs weren

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: adiment on 17 August 2005, 19:12

haha, saw this all over the news this morning. ;)

by the way, What would be the average specs on a 4 year olf ibook?

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: Kintaro on 17 August 2005, 20:05

That is awesome.

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: WMD on 17 August 2005, 21:20

Quote from: e7ement

by the way, What would be the average specs on a 4 year olf ibook?

The machines they sold were:

G3/500MHz CPU
320MB RAM
10GB hard drive
CD-ROM
AirPort 802.11b wireless card
ATI Rage 128 (8MB?)
Mac OS X 10.2.8

This machine could run Tiger fairly well (sans special effects), although, you'd have to order the CD media (the Tiger box has a DVD in it).

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: hm_murdock on 17 August 2005, 22:06

There were plenty of 500MHz G3 iBooks sold with DVD or DVD/CDRW combo drives.

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: WMD on 17 August 2005, 23:05

Apple sold them, but the school only bought CD-ROM.  They get a discount for that.  And the kids don't go burning CDs or watching movies during class.  Or whatever.  Maybe it was just the money. ;)

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: cahult on 17 August 2005, 23:37

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/f6_12_sb.JPG.jpg

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: worker201 on 18 August 2005, 00:48

That's not a bad deal - I'd cough up the $50.  Maybe even get 2 of them.  Throw Panther on there, and use it as a wordprocessor/pornlibrary.

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: davidnix71 on 18 August 2005, 03:27

I don't think I would want a laptop that had been banged around for years by students, but it you got to boot them up first it might be a deal. The displays, hinges and keyboards may be damaged, the batteries may not hold a charge, do you get a battery charger with it?

Finding an OS would be easy. Students get a pretty good discount. My niece in college got me the full box set of Panther new for $85 just after it was released. Comes in handy, too. The full box set has X11, but the restore discs with my eMac didn't.

Worker is right, better buy two or three to be sure you have enough parts. The superdrive to replace the stock cd rom sure won't be cheap, either.

It would have made a lot more sense to have a lottery-type drawing of names from a 'hat' seeing how many people there were.

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: Siplus on 18 August 2005, 03:58

hah...

I was going to try to pick up one, along with about 3 or 4 buddies. I'm glad we didn't take the 3-hour drive down

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: WMD on 18 August 2005, 04:46

Quote from: Siplus

hah...

I was going to try to pick up one, along with about 3 or 4 buddies. I'm glad we didn't take the 3-hour drive down

Wasn't even an option.  You had to prove you lived in that county in order to buy one.

Oh, and you could only buy one.  One laptop.

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: MarathoN on 18 August 2005, 16:03

Only one laptop?

That sucks hard.

Are Apple turning into MS?

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: Kintaro on 18 August 2005, 18:59

I think it would have been the store owners call, not Apple's.

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: MarathoN on 18 August 2005, 19:43

Ah right, bastard stores.

Although, it's probably a good thing they only sold one per person (or was it different?).

Since that would stop someone buying the whole lot! (I wouldn't mind doing that, Apple Barrage!) :D

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: WMD on 18 August 2005, 23:50

Quote from: MarathoN

Only one laptop?

That sucks hard.

Are Apple turning into MS?

These were the rules from the school board.  Apple had nothing to do with this sale at all.

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: Zombie98223920 on 20 August 2005, 00:49

We can only hope that more Mac users will get killed by their own stupidity. The gene pool depends on it.

Title: Re: iBooks cause stampede
Post by: Orethrius on 20 August 2005, 03:23

Quote from: Zombie98223920

We can only hope that more Macman clones will get killed by their own stupidity. The gene pool depends on it.

Quite right.