Why would you do that?
Why wouldn't you do that?
Welcome, brother. We've been waiting for you.
I am deeply looking forward to replacing Apple's crapware with an OS worth the bytes it takes up. Am I still your brother?
Hardly over priced Lord Dave. It is ancient. 2005!
How does being ancient preclude it from being overpriced?
Even in its day it was a steaming pile and Apple eventually gave in and put Intel processors in their computers so they could compete again.
It's a good thing I don't plan to actually use the bloatware OS that comes pre-installed on it, so it might actually perform decently with a well-written OS.
I'm starting to think Parsifal is a junk hoarder. He buys cheap rubbish and fills his house with it.
As always, I care about your opinion very much. As a matter of fact, it's the main reason I made this thread.
What happened to the Chinese laptop?
Nothing. It still runs just fine, and I've been using it to learn MIPS assembly programming.
How many laptops do you need?
None at all.
You aren't a poor man. Just get one really good one.
Are you drunk again? If I were a poor man, I probably wouldn't go buying lots of different computers. The fact that I have money means I can afford to. Since I also want to, that works out rather nicely.
If you want a toy get a raspberry pi or and Intel NUC or something.
I already have three Raspberry Pis I do nothing with. Now that I'm making the switch to OpenBSD, which doesn't support closed hardware platforms like the rPi, I probably won't use them for anything. I'm probably going to sell them soon.
As for an Intel NUC... Thork, why do you still assume everyone else has the same needs and desires as you? You haven't even bothered to ask why I wanted an iBook before barging in with your amazing opinions.
A nine year old laptop ... for $200AUD with the postage. You have hoarding problems.
Is it hoarding if I actually use the hardware?
Is the experiment to see if he can corner the market in computers no one else wants to buy?
No, but now that you mention it, that sounds like a great idea. What better way to save money than to buy hardware for which there is literally zero demand?
Why would you buy an apple laptop just to replace OSX with OpenBSD? You paid more for OSX than you did the laptop's actual hardware.
Because I wanted to try out OpenBSD's
macppc port. Funnily enough, that requires purchasing a PowerPC Mac, which is kind of hard to find without OS X pre-installed. I decided to go for the last (and therefore best-specced) 12-inch iBook model; I briefly considered the last PowerBook, which has slightly better specs, until I realised that the 12-inch model has NVIDIA graphics. And fuck getting a laptop bigger than 12 inches.
As for why I want to use the hardware platform; I'm interested in trying new and different hardware platforms in general, but this one in particular caught my attention for a couple of reasons. One, Apple's PowerPC systems are some of the few non-x86 commercially viable laptops produced in the past decade, and the laptop form factor is convenient because I can move it around and not have to worry about a tangled mess of VGA, serial or network cables.
The second reason is that PowerPC is a big-endian architecture. Every other computer I've ever owned has been little-endian (either x86-like, or else a little-endian MIPS or ARM variant). If I'm going to want to get more involved in OpenBSD hacking, it will be convenient to be able to test my changes on a big-endian platform, as endianness bugs are fairly common and easy to miss.
SPARC is another big-endian architecture, so I will probably also buy a SPARCbook at some point if I can find one (they were never particularly popular, and haven't been produced in some time, so that might prove difficult).
Only chumps pay for Windows.
Only chumps use Windows.