"I never want a PC again!"
How I did it: It was a Thursday afternoon. My two year old Windows XP laptop had just broken, and I needed a computer because I work from home, and it's very hard to do without a little box in the corner of my room. Grr!
I'd been spending a lot of time on eBay, but I hadn't really considered getting a computer from there because I thought that for anything good I'd have to pay a fortune, which at the time I didn't have. Anyway, I checked, and found a few computers that might fit the bill. Then out of the blue, I found an iMac G3 really cheap, I mean really cheap. It was a 99p start with no reserve and only about six hours to go. Nobody had bid yet. How chuffed was I?
I put in a max bid of £50, which was all I could manage, and when I checked after the auction ad finished, I had won it for only £26. I hadn't used a Mac since I was a kid, but I was just happy that I had a computer.
As it transpired, I had purchased the machine from a guy who lives about 35 miles from where we live, but we were going to visit my other-half's parents that weekend, so we could pick it up on the way. Brilliant!
We picked it up in Harrogate that Saturday, and while I didn't get the boot disks and the mouse that had been advertised in the listing, that little beautiful machine has never had a problem, and I've been running it for over a year now. Yes, I ended up re-installing OS X, but that was just because I had run out of space and I wanted a clean canvas to work with.
Lessons & tips: Macs are way better than PCs. They're easier to use, have a very limited virus history, and boot quicker. You want to know how quicker? My iMac G3 with a 400MHz PPC processor boots in 3.5 minutes (including login and login programs) while my other-half's Vista laptop with a Celeron M takes over half an hour to do the same thing. Think about it!
Resources: www.fatfingers.com - find the products nobody else can! Did you know that aound half of listings on eBay have typos in the listing title? Just hop on over to Fat Fingers and type in what you want, and you can see the listings that would otherwise rarely be found.
Nov 11, 2008, 11:59AM PST
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