So I'm sitting in my livingroom working on my work stuff and my neighbor comes over. She wants to know what kind of computer she should get because her computer "does not have enough megabits". My neighbor knows nothing of computers it seems.
I followed her into her apartment, and what do I see but one of these:
It's an iMac. As in the ORIGINAL 233mhz, 5GB HDD, 2MB vram, OS 9.2 mac. Its the revision A iMac, in the first released color. It's an antique. *_*
After some discussion, I found out what not enough megabits means. My neighbor had bought a printer at costco and the iMac could not talk to it. She wanted to get a new computer for "cheap as free".
Of course, computers are not free, but with my neighbors it does not matter. They have 5 people living in a one bedroom under one income. It kind of reminds me of my own family actually.
After doing some searching I came to the conclusion that even if they upgraded the iMac to the newest version of the OS that it could run, it still would not drive their printer. Returning the printer was out of the question ... Read the rest of the entry...
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