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Wow. I had a 560Z, which was the same form factor but with different options. I'm completely unsurprised that some still exist in great shape, because those mac
by ubermonkey 6y ago
Wow. I had a 560Z, which was the same form factor but with different options. I'm completely unsurprised that some still exist in great shape, because those machines were insanely overengineered. Mine showed no real wear after 2.5 years of daily use including no small amount of travel, and by that point it had stopped being appealing as a work platform.
It was actually my last daily-driver Windows machine. I was working mostly in Office apps at the time, and Win95/98 was just GARBAGE on a laptop. You couldn't reliably sleep. It crashed all the time. Eventually, it drove me to buy a Mac, based on the experiences of one of my business partners. This was pre-OSX, so the OS was only about 30% more stable than Win95, but sleep worked EVERY TIME, and the whole system was more responsive.
Then the dot-com crash happened, and OS X happened, and I went back to coding as a solo act.
But I sure have fond memories of that 560Z.