Reply #78: Hello, fellow Mackers!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

My current machine of choice is a 12" G4 iBook, 1.07GHz, 512 MB RAM, which I bought to take to Japan this fall. It replaced a clamshell iBook, which worked fine, and even had OS 10.2 on it, but weighed far too much. However, I like the new iBook so much that I hardly ever use my desktop computer, which is...

an iMac SE-DVD, vintage 2000, 400 MHz. I like portability, especially since I have an Airport network in my apartment and a nearby coffee shop with wireless Internet, so I'm planning to replace the desktop model with a 15" (or better yet, drool, a 17") Powerbook.

Then I would use the Powerbook as my main machine and really keep the iBook only for travel. I like the security of having two computers. It was a lifesaver when the hard disk on the iMac started acting weird and then completely crashed after its move across the country. Fortunately, I had already backed up the iMac to my old iBook, so I didn't lose anything.

Other Macs I have known and loved include my first one,

an LC III, the "pizza box" model followed by a
Performa 375

I first used Macs at my last teaching job, where my department had one Mac SE for everyone. It was a big thrill when we added a hard disk!