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Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <mf6eg7$g6e$1@dont-email.me>,
> Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> 
>> Well, the "new" laptop I'm getting , along with all the extras, but still
>> including CD/DVD slot and Firewire port, labor, and even Applecare I figure
>> I'll need for a while, came to $200 over the $1300 tax refund I have
>> coming.
> 
> What is it?

It's a new (as in not refurbished) 13" 2012 MacBook Pro with twice my old
one's RAM and 5X the memory. I needed one that could basically be my old
one on one side of the partition, with newer software I can learn to use
gradually on the other. A 15" would have no CD/DVD slot nor Firewire port,
which latter I need seldom but then urgently, and I don't want more
separate pieces of equipment or adapters cluttering up limited space, to
say nothing of saving quite a chunk of money.  A newer one would be
"unhappy", if even capable of letting me keep my connection to older data.
There's no way I could physically make room for another separate computer,
so I'll just have to get used to a 13 instead of a really old 15.

My really old G4 seems to be a tougher breed, as it still chugs along and
will open any physical media I've had in decades since the large floppies
from early apple //e days.  

And for those who think that was long ago, my first acquaintance with
computers goes back to calling up the university mainframe and putting the
phone into a kind of cradle to access the program I was working with(NOT
something I wrote, mind you) back in the mid 70s.
-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

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graphics again Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2015-03-26 19:16 +0000
  Re: graphics again sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-03-27 18:37 +0000
    Re: graphics again Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2015-03-28 14:40 +0000
      Re: graphics again Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 12:53 -0400
        Re: graphics again Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2015-03-29 20:46 +0000
          Re: graphics again Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 18:52 -0400
            Re: graphics again Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2015-03-30 17:51 +0000

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