[geeks] can't wait for Vista

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:59:07PM -0500, velociraptor wrote:

> > > My G4 Powerbook* is - four years on - a viable machine at work.  It's
> > > only lack is a small disk.  It runs the latest OS X and so on.
> 
> Slap in a $10 used SCSI card and a couple of cast off SCSI disks from
> a server and you solve that problem and help the speed issue.

In a laptop?

> Heck, how did I forget about Framemaker?  I guess there will be one
> PPC box around for quite a while. :-)  Especially if grad school is in
> my future--I can't imagine using Word or OpenOffice for anything
> beyond a memo or letter.

I wouldn't do a memo or letter in word or OpenOffice either.  LaTeX forever!

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