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jcgrillo 8 hours ago

This one is a fancy G4 instead of the normal G3. I still have the husk of my Ti PowerBook G4 which is the "macbook pro" analog of the era. It was a fantastic machine, I got about 12 solid years of use from it before it finally died. Weirdly, the failure mode that ultimately killed it was something causing some kind of memory (and thereby disk) corruption that increased in severity over a period of about a year eventually rendering it to the junk heap. I went through a couple disks and RAM modules before deciding whatever was going on was beyond my abilities.

I credit various Linux and *BSD PPC ports for making at least a third of that lifetime possible.

I'm hopeful that the more recent M{1,2,3,...} machines might be similarly long-lived.