I'm with Hrududu on this one. Sure, the capacitors are going to fail, now if not then in 5 years. But that is a way of life. If you just make your Mac into a museum piece and not use it for productivity, then it defeats the purpose of Mac ownership. My actions allow for more use out of these great machines. I am in hope that at least we can be a reference to others even though these machines have been moved out of the mainstream use.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that we don't have to own every single model but just have a handful around, just in case. For me, I'll gladly hand on to the three Macs I own; one for each era of processor family change. Should I run into somebody who has an old disc with personal files they wish to get transferred to more new formats, then they can rely on me.

We live in a disposable society. Electronic technology is constantly evolving and there are a lot of people who are just throwing the old in the trash. I hate to think of all those machines being dumped in some landfill, their toxic chemicals seeping into the groundwater in some third world country. If we can save just x number of machines from that kind of fate, we are doing our part on making this a much cleaner place to live. Heck, even if you don't want to keep it, donate them to someone who can't afford a computer. Give these inexpensive machines one last free ride before they truly give up their ghost.

73s de Phreakout. :rambo: