At long last, my new Apple product is ordered…  No, not the iPhone, I have no need for a $600 phone.  I’m talking a brand spanking new, dual CPU, dual core tower…  After 5 years with my current dual CPU G4 (bless it’s soul), I am upgrading.

Hopefully, it will be here by next weekend.  Sigh, buyer’s remorse may have already set in as I debate whether I should have bought 4GB or RAM instead of 2.

With that, let me just say that my current G4 (which will become my son’s computer) has served me well through countless builds, tests and late nights.  It has stood strong when lesser computers have failed (Windows machines, of course ).  It is responsible for so much of my life, it is sad to see it go.  But, as they say, it is better to have computed and retired than to never have computed at all.

To this day, I firmly believe that it has crashed less than 15 times and most likely less than 10 times.  I never once reinstalled the OS.  It has had one memory chip fail (third party) and one hard drive crash (again, third party).  The fan did die, but replacing it was a piece of cake.   But, like any good computer, the new programs are getting to be too much for it to keep up with and it is time to retire it to playing games on Nick Jr.  Of course, I will keep SSH open in case I need to offload some work every now and then, just to see the old girl run one more time…  I am sure she will be happy doing a Lucene build every now and then just to say she’s still got it.

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