Powerbook G3 (Lombard)
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
One day I spied Father-In-Law (FIL) checking out my monitor, all 17 inches of it. “You can sure read the text easily on that thing”, said he. “Not only that, but you can get more that one page of a document on there,” I replied, sensing an opportunity. “I have a lot of trouble reading the little print on new G3 Powerbook,” said he. “Hummm,” said I. “Want to switch?”
A month later he bit and I had an absolutely great portable machine $1000.00 over my budget and FIL was able to read his documents.
The Powerbook is now 9 years old, can run OS 10.4 (slowly) and the latest version of Microsoft Office. I’ve been able to do most of the repairs myself, though one time I took it to replace the power source and the Wizard changed the screen too. Go figure. But, the whole family will miss PB when he’s gone.
BTW, a few months after the exchange, FIL made a trip to the USA and bought himself… the same portable with a faster processor. “But you can’t read the screen!” said I.
“Nah… It’s just that you were drooling over the other one,” said he.
