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Do you know where I can look for a os X Tiger for PPC for cheap? Or maybe you got a copy you can sell me...

I never upgraded to Tiger cause I'll buy Leopard in a month or so, but if you're looking for Tiger cheap I'd say eBay.

I'm looking to upgrade my 12" powerbook... I just don't want to spend full price on a out of date OS. BTW, careful on upgrading to Leopard. make sure you do archive upgrade. I did a straight upgrade and I can't login afterward on my new iMac.

When I said I'm going to buy Leopard, I meant I'm going to buy a whole new machine with the latest OS installed, probably a 17" Macbook Pro. But that won't be for a few months...

I just remembered, my boss upgraded to Tiger over a year ago but he just bought Leopard. Next time I go to work I'll ask him if I can have his old Tiger installation discs, perhaps I can sell them to you.

At long as It's for the PowerPC... I'm interested.

nvm I checked with him this afternoon and he said it wasn't the full OS, just an update. Sorry dude. I still think you could find it dirt cheap on eBay, though.

I saw someone selling it around 40 plus shipping.

I've got a couple Macs, and older iBook 14" running Panther, and a new iMac 20" running Leopard.

The first computer I ever used was a Commodore Pet, but the first computer I ever WORKED on was an Apple 2E. After high school It took another 14 years before I finally got another Mac (the iBook)

I use my Mac's for video editing and processing (iMove 6 HD and Final Cut Express), and 3D graphic model rendering (Poser 6)

For you people just buying a new Mac, if your buying it for video editing, let me warn you. iMovie 08 is good for nothing but video blogging to Youtube, and simple cut and paste home movies. They cut back all of the editing functionality of the free included iMovie 08, so you would have to buy Final Cut Express.to do any more than the most simple of video tasks. (I hope this won't be a recurring trend, of acting like microsoft)

Interesting...

my first computer is a Commodor 64. But we all use Apple 2E at school. When I attend college I got my first 8088 PC running on DOS 2.1. Then I have been doing all upgrade until Windows NT. When XP released, I finally give up on building PC as the cost is getting cheap and not worth the time. Besides, gaming needs diminished so I don't need the fastest processor and video cards. 4 years ago I finally took interest of Macs and OSX. I got my 12" Powerbook to replace my Sony Vaio. Man that a world of difference since then. I got my wife a 20" imac 2 years later and finally got my own 20" imac last year. Absolutely love it. I'm about to get another 20" imac for my dad to replace his Dell. That was piece of crap.

allizard Wrote:Interesting...

my first computer is a Commodor 64. But we all use Apple 2E at school. When I attend college I got my first 8088 PC running on DOS 2.1. Then I have been doing all upgrade until Windows NT. When XP released, I finally give up on building PC as the cost is getting cheap and not worth the time. Besides, gaming needs diminished so I don't need the fastest processor and video cards. 4 years ago I finally took interest of Macs and OSX. I got my 12" Powerbook to replace my Sony Vaio. Man that a world of difference since then. I got my wife a 20" imac 2 years later and finally got my own 20" imac last year. Absolutely love it. I'm about to get another 20" imac for my dad to replace his Dell. That was piece of crap.

Hah...Dell... Dell is funny.. NOT!

Seriously though, my Computer use/ownership wen't ful circle.. Almost.

First was the Commodore Pet at the school library in 5th grade

Next was the Commodore Vic 20 at my Step Grandmothers house when I was in 6th grade.

Then when I was in 7th Grade, the middle school I was going to got a new "computer classroom" in the library, with four Apple II's. I took my first Apple BASIC programming class during summer school that year. I had NEVER gone to summer school before... it took computers to pull that one off.

We got our own Commodore 64 soon after that, we couldn't afford an Apple II of our own. (They cost close to 2000 dollars back then)

In High School, we had Apple II's and Apple II E's, and one Apple II C (Compact). Our Principle had the only Macintosh (Back then Apple was the brand, and Macintosh was a model name) I took 2 more years of BASIC programming, the guy teaching it to us was our Math teacher and was still learning it from the local community college. I was teaching myself stuff and was pretty much neck and neck with the teacher on BASIC knowledge.

When I got into Tech school, a local 18 month Associates Degree program, they had exact ONE week on personal computer use, an IBM of some kind... they taught us how to navigate simple dos and that was it... but they taught us a good bunch of the internal programming of firmware and Hexidecimal code of 8088's and Zilog Z80's.

It wasn't until I got my first good job working at Motorola that I first saw a Windows PC.. it was an IBP PS2 running Windows 3.1 We also used them for test system controls for the most part, running on HPBASIC.

I didn't get my first PC of my own until about 1994 when my brother and I bought one online (from our work PCs) from some home grown PC build place. It had a 120 meg hard drive! and ran at 44 Mhz! (It had a little LCD on the front telling you what speed the processor ran at)

Then in 1996 I got my OWN (not shared) PC running on windows 95. I bought it from the same place we bought the last one, I don't quite remember the specs, but that was when I first got AOL and built my first website. A website devoted to the Gothic culture in Chicago. (I still have it, I may put it up on my new website just for the memories)

Then I got my first Dell in 1999 I think it was. It ran ok on Windows 98.

Then I got my second dell in 2001 running on Windows ME.. and you know, I don't care how many other people complained about ME.. it was the most stable windows operating system I had ever had up until that point. But then in 2003 it crashed, and I had to Reformat and install windows 2000.

Then in Late 2003 when I got my third dell, the first Dell micro case, running Windows XP... I decided that Dell was a minion of Satan, sent to drive us all mad.

Needless to say, in 2004 I got my Apple iBook 14 inch. The PC still worked, but I wanted a change.

In 2006 I finally got rid of the old Dell, and build my own PC, starting from a Barebones case. It's running XP, and does ok for the things I use it for (Photshop, web design and surfing the web)

Then in Late 2007 I finally got my new iMac 20".

You'll notice that I had to buy a new PC almost every 2 years right?

Well my ibook, that I got in 2004, is still going strong in 2008.

Thats a good selling point for Mac isn't it?

Some day I would like to own a new Mac Pro desktop... but it will take a LOT of conniving to convince my wife of that.

Wow, I wrote a lot didn't I? (Select All, Copy before submitting... lol)