So it’s finally happened. My beloved G4 iBook which so courageously took over my Windows PC as my main recording rig 3 years ago has died (almost). I can still do some recording on it but it’s limited in many ways and getting it fix might cost more than just picking up a refurbished Mac with even more power and memory.
The problem actually started about a year ago when I foolishly allowed the rest of the household to use my ibook as the “do-all” computer for the house. Everyone was using it. My wife used it to organize pictures while my youngest daughter used it to chat with friends and spend hours on her MySpace page. It seemed that anytime I wasn’t using it for recording, someone else was. Last year my wife accidentally bumped it against something and the CD/DVD combo drive began to act up. Eventually it stop working all together.
