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Time to dust off my old 2003 12" Powerbook G4!

Man, I loved that thing. So many hours playing Civ3, Warcraft3, and writing Java code. And that aluminum keyboard was so awesome. It booted successfully as recently as 2 years ago.

Mine has 640MB RAM, close enough for this challenge, I guess.

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My first new personal laptop! It's funny I was amazed how small it was, but picking it up recently it feels like a giant brick.

I also remember it being a lot faster than it was - some of that might be age, but I suspect we used to just be a lot more patient with the slowness of HDD.

I've got a 2004 14" iBook G4 I was thinking the exact same thing about. Diablo II and Simcity 4 ran just peachy on it last time I got it out during COVID lockdown.

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