My New(er) Mac

[Texas Mac Man]

I bought a used 2006 G4 1.5GHz 12" Powerbook to replace my G3 400MHz Pismo laptop. Even though the Pismo was running Tiger, it was just too slow for many web sites. I mainly use a laptop when traveling, or when my wife is using the desktop G4 MDD.

My first Mac in the 80's was a used 512Ke. My only Mac purchased new was an LCll in the 90's. I've never felt that I need to have the latest & greatest Mac. However, I do always purchase my cars new.

[Paddy]

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However, I do always purchase my cars new.

About the opposite of what I do - I buy new computers (most of the time) and used cars! The savings are significant - cars depreciate a whole lot more in absolute $$$$ in the first year or two than Macs do.

My husband has that PB G4 and he's pondering a new one, but that's partly to do with the fact that he runs Framemaker, which must run in Classic in 10.3.9 OR under Windows, since Adobe dropped Mac support for it eons ago. He's starting to run into issues with web browsers etc. on the older OS. It wouldn't be so bad if he could run 10.5, but he can't do that and still use Frame - unless he gets an Intel machine and runs it under Windows. His copy of Frame is about 5 versions old now too.

[Texas Mac Man]

Although I buy my cars/trucks new, I don't worry about depreciation because I generally keep my vehicles for 10 years or more. Currently, my 10 year old 2000 Tundra pickup only has 71K miles.

[kimmer]

Enjoy your "new" toy.

[Paddy]

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I don't worry about depreciation because I generally keep my vehicles for 10 years or more

I buy 'em used and then keep them until they're at LEAST ten years old! Our Corolla was 15 when we retired it last year, our Grand Caravan was 11, and our current cars are a very low-mileage 2001 Accord (was my mother's - it had 30,000 km on it when we got it last year!) and a 2004 Sienna. I buy low-mileage cars with superb reliability ratings and so far it's been good. The Grand Caravan wasn't in the "superb reliability" category, but it was a great deal and only a year old when we bought it from friends who were upgrading to the AWD version. We were lucky - apart from persistent door lock failures, until its last year it was very reliable.

Our Macs don't tend to last in this household quite as long, though some are working fine elsewhere with various friends/relatives! That said, we do have a fully functional 11 year old Lombard Powerbook (hubby uses it for iTunes mostly), an 800 Mhz Aluminum Powerbook (8 years old) which still gets used for movies and the odd bit of Solitaire, and a 10 year old G4 400Mhz awaiting a new home.

[jcarter]

Ive bought both new and used of both computers and trucks.

I like a new Mac now, so havent bought a used one for ages.

But we have been really lucky having a friend who replaces his Chevy trucks every few years, we get his 'hand-me-downs'.
And our daughter works at the big Toyota agency here, and gets one vehicle a year at 'cost' for blood relatives. Used or new.

Books, I always buy 'used' off of Amazon.

I bet I have the oldest vehicle of anybody here, we have an F-150 truck in Maine which is a 1979. A guy is restoring it for the family, as we will leave it in Maine and only drive it in the summer.  Though I bet someone here has an antique car in his garage, 2 of our neighbours do, but they dont leave them out for anybody to see.

My other neighbour just bought a new 27 inch iMac and wants some lessons,,,,,

New and used, both are good.
Jane