Another Switcher?

After I wrote in this blog about the PowerBook upgrades I had just done, mentioning that we were thinking about selling my wife’s 700 G3 iBook, Marty, Connie’s nephew, e-mailed me, asking how much we wanted for it. That was serendipitous. Connie had told me only a few days before she didn’t want to sell it and preferred to give it to a family member considering we would probably only get $300 or so for it. Though she wasn’t sure whom she wanted to give it to, she was thinking Marty might be able to use it. Then, Marty wrote he could really use it at college and there were several reasons why, one of them being the problems he had trying to keep his sister’s HP PC clear of Window’s viruses.

I started reloading the iBook with its original software Friday night and then worked off and on through the weekend to finish it up. It’s running Jaguar, and I used our wireless network to download every patch for the operating system I could find. I wrote a three page note explaining what software was on the iBook and how I had set it up and packed that in with the package. I’m going to Fed Ex the iBook up to his mom’s workplace this evening. I would think it would be there by the end of the week.

Obviously, I’m curious to see how Marty likes the iBook and OS X. We gave a flat panel 800MHz G4 iMac to my sister and I haven’t been able to tell if she really likes it or not; but, then, that’s my sis. She’s just not very excitable. I know my daughter-in law really likes the 700 MHz G4 flat panel iMac she got from us, and I think her husband likes his dual 1 GHz G4 PowerMac, but I’m not real sure about that, either. While it ran almost trouble-free for me, he’s had a few problems with it, though minor. My impression at this point is that most family members have been ambivalent about OS X, though it may be that they’re just ambivalent about computers in general. That certainly isn’t true for my wife and me, but then a lot of our professional lives and much of our personal lives revolve around the things. It’s hard for us to be ambivalent about something that’s impacting us so much.