From: Willie Strickland <willie@igc.org>

Date: October 1, 2006 12:37:49 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Using and old G4 Powerbook

At 7:13 PM +0100 10/1/06, Ray Byrne wrote:

I bought my son a second-hand G4 Powerbook a couple of years ago for

his birthday (to stop him using my Mac and for college) and have only

just looked at it's spec. It only has a 20GB HD and even thinning it

down can only free-up half of it so I've only got 10GB to play with.

This is very little as I'm intending to do LRGB imaging with it and

to top it all it hasn't got USB 2 any suggestions?

But it has firewire!  I have so many catalogues and DSS images that a while back I purchased a used 30GB iPod for $150.  Makes a great external HD.  Make sure and get one of the firewire iPods.  You can easily use it with either the laptop or a desktop machine.

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Willie Strickland

willie@igc.org