I have an old power book and I am new at this

[pappadontpreach]

I am a college student (screenwriting). I bought a vintage 540c on ebay my idea was to get something I could do some wordprocessing on and maybe check some email nothing major the only problem is I have never owned an apple product nor am I that computer savvy I need a little advce on how I can get the OS upgrade with out a cd rom is it possible to use an external cd rom? I dont have lots of money but I need to figure this out can anyone help The current operating system is (and this sucks) 7.5.5

[kelly]

Hi pdp. Welcome to the Forum.  

Madonna fan?

That's an old one for sure. Hope you didn't pay much for it.

Read about it here.

http://new.lowendmac.com/pb/540c.shtml

And here.

http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarr...9/13/index.html

The newest mac laptops are 1 Gigahertz. Or 1000 Megahertz.

What you've got is 33 Megahertz.

Does that put it in perspective?

Are you sure you can't swing $189 for something like this?

http://www.wegenermedia.com/3400.htm

[chuckwagen]

P- That's a great price on a 3400. You can get an Ethernet card for $70 and now you have DSL or Cable internet. The 540 will $20 you to death if you start adding on to it. I don't think anything over 7.5.5 would be worth using on a 33mhz box....

[pappadontpreach]

Thank you for the advice I am going to go with the $189 deal

[kelly]

Ok.  

That machine will do word processing and Web surfing ok.

Don't expect a lot more than that. Like new games.

We'll be here for any more questions you have.

Good luck.