If you are visiting Low End Mac, chances are you have an older
Mac. You may be unsure of what to do with it. If so, here are a few
ideas for you (in no particular order).
Give a kid a computer. Little kids love those little compact Macs, and chances are that little
kids are about the only ones who will want them now that the 733
MHz G4 is available (with apologies to the Mac collectors out
there). These 8 MHz and 16 MHz Macs aren't fast, don't have
big screens, but loaded with Kid Pix and Oregon Trail, a 7 or 8
year old will have a great time with it.
Set up a print server. The SE/30 makes a great print server, because
of its small size and it's low price (about $20-$30). An Ethernet
card can be had for $10, and you will find that a lot of used
SE/30s already have the cards.
Make a Macquarium. If
you have a broken compact Mac, this might be for you. I mean, who
could resist fish swimming around in an old computer case?
If you make websites, you might want to keep an older Mac
around to check compatibility with older browsers and older
systems.
Use an older compact Mac in the kitchen to hold recipes. There
are a number of programs that will do this; Mangia is one.
If you have several compact Macs, stack them up and run screen
savers on them. Why? I don't know; it just looks neat.
If your "older" Mac is more recent (say, a Quadra or early Power Mac), you might think of using
it as a secondary Internet and email machine.
If you have a Power Mac, consider using it next to your stereo
to play MP3s.
If you have a PowerBook and it has a colour screen, you can use
it as a digital picture
frame. If you don't need one of those, or your machine has a
grayscale screen, you might consider giving it to a student to use
in school. PowerBooks can be very helpful for people who have
trouble with organization. I tend to organize my hard drive very
neatly, but can't find anything in my binder, so it really helps
me.
If your "old" computer is a G3, it can be very useful for connecting
older SCSI, serial, and ADB peripherals. Since the G3 is a fast
processor, you can still be comfortable doing some graphics work
with it as well. I use my G3 for a bit of graphics work and to run
my scanner. You could do this on a non-G3 as well, but if you plan
to do Photoshop work, you really need something fast, like a
9600 or G3.
If you decide that selling might be the best thing, take a look
at Selling Your Older Mac. You can also
see what other people's computers with similar specs to yours are
selling for by looking in the local newspaper or on eBay.
Older computers can be very useful. I only listed a few of the
things you can do with an older Mac. There are many more useful
projects for older Macs.
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