On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:08:38 -0600, Waaste wrote (in article <2006122818083816807-arrrrmatey@treasureislandnet>):
> On 2006-12-16 10:48:21 -0500, Randy Howard > <randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net> said: > >> Daniel MacKay wrote >> (in article <daniel-51718F.18044602122006@news.eastlink.ca>): >> >>> Hey all! >>> >>> I got a MacBook Pro a couple months ago, and it is time to part with my >>> beautiful workhorse Powerbook, which has not been more than ten feet >>> from me for the last four years or so. The old girl is beat up and >>> dented and scuffed and bent, but still works beautifully. >> >> I wouldn't buy a used computer from someone that managed to get it >> "beat up and dented and scuffed and bent". Especially over the >> internet. sorry. > > I hate to break it to you, but that is what happens to the Powerbooks > with the aluminum frames. The frame bends and dents easily, and most > of the powerbooks that have been used are dented and bent, but they ar > still in perfect working order.
I hate to break this to you, but it hasn't happened to mine, and it is in perfect working order also.
-- Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw