Originally posted by brianh
I have an original bondi blue iMac. Running 8.6, 96mg, external cd drive(tray load broken). I have been contemplating a new sys ... maybe a tower and flat panel monitor? My ? is should I wait a little longer? Are there some new "faster, better, stronger" from Apple in the next 3 months? We have been experiencing 3-4 freeze-ups a day. Can these be attributable to MS IE/OE? I have tried turning off extensions trying to find the culprit but to no avail. There does not seem to be a pattern to the freezes. Any ideas? Thanks, Brian
If you feel that you should wait for the next big thing (be it the G5 or whatever), you'll never buy anything. And ofcourse, once you do buy it, and they come out with something new, you'll feel like you got jipped.
Buy what you can afford, based on your usage. And if you upgrade it, just don't sink obscene amounts of dosh into the thing. For example, my QS 933, I have 1024mb ram.....I'm not gonna upgrade it to 1.5gigs, because the new ones ofcourse use ddr ram. I'm not gonna upgrade the videocard to the $600can geforce card, and uh....*thinks* that's about it. hehe
I will, however, buy the new lacie 52x24x52x firewire that they just released ($199us, on their website). My superdrive is uh....super, but only 8x, and don't wanna wear out that beloved lense.
Keep your imac as a second system, or sell it on ebay. Just wipe the drive, and reinstall.