How long have you had your computer?

I have a power mac G4 tower that was made in 2002...I got it in 2005. I'm about at the point where I'm tired of saying to my husband 'oh, it does everything I need' while it sits there thinking and thinking of a rainbow spinny wheel. I can't afford another compy anytime soon. Does Mac even make towers anymore, or just iMacs that have everything hidden in the monitor? Bcz those are not so rad. (Love love love the G4 iMac, tho. OTOH I wld be replacing a G4.)

Okay why am I even looking at Macs thinking they'll maybe be in the 3-digit price range.

The Mac Mini is 3 digits and is like a tower in that it lacks a monitor, but is way smaller.

And also has 2 GB of hard drive space....uhh....

mac minis are a great deal i think

nah, 2 gigahertz processor, 1 gb of RAM, 120 gb hard drive (in the base model), for $550 in the education store.

(xxpost) I have a laptop here with a 60MB hard drive

oops lol Euler I think you just sold me

Yeah, that Mac Mini isn't a really great buy... but I suppose if you can't go up to the 24' iMac it's your next best option.

A: About 2 months, and it's my first.

How are your hands? They must be feeling better, because you're back to your cranky old miserable self on politics and baseball threads.

my right hand is still carpally.

I've had this same eMac since 2001 or 2002. Came with that dinosaur game on it and something about capturing bee-hive ladies with UFOs.

Feb '03, Athlon 1800 PC w/256MB RAM, running Windows XP (color: PC beige). Only upgrade has been adding an internal DVD writer and an external HD (iomega 160MB, USB 2.0).

― nickn, Sunday, October 14, 2007

Still got it, but it now resets within about 30 minutes of turning it on (and usually not thereafter, even if I use it for hours more). I'm checking every Fry's ad I see to find my next one, though.

This thread is good as it reminds me my latest laptops still within its 2yr warranty. Which is good, because the power supply plug has gone flaky. The plug, when plugged in, wont stay contacted with the inner plug...thing, so it flicks between AC charge and battery constantly.Which can't be good for the damn battery. If I knew it was easy to fix myself I would have a try... sigh.

one day!!!!11 turned on the imac for the first time and realised it has tiger rather than leopard :( more spending awaits.

If you don't need soon, you might want to wait for Snow Leopard which will probably come out within.. 6 months? Then again it was supposed to have come out by now, so who knows.

Happy Birthday to my mid-2007 iMac - seven years old today and still going strong....

I had a 2004 iMac which just gave up the other day.

Bought my laptop in Dec 2011 and it already feels like a hulking mess of a thing.

took it apart (and i mean literally to tiny pieces) just to clean the fan the other day and ended up with 8 screws left over.

my laptop dates from late 2009 i think. put an ssd in it last christmas and it's fine, no need to update.

(actually, battery is shot and one of the usb sockets is dodgy but...)

I think our laptop is from 2011? MacBook Air.