It’s amazing how well this thing has held up since getting it for college in 2000.
Under the hood is a 500Mhz G3, 768MB RAM, a 60GB hard drive, running OS X Tiger 10.4.11 with Safari recently updated to 4.0.
It can still do your Gmail, Google Maps, and load complex sites as ESPN and the NY Times.
Not fast enough for playing YouTube videos without being choppy, but that’s ok.
A fine machine, and still a first-class citizen on the Interwebs.
If you’ve had difficulties connecting your MacBook Pro to a Verizon FiOS wireless router, read on.
When connecting to the FiOS wireless router, I can see the access point, enter the password, and it appears to connect to the network.
Except the router doesn’t assign the MacBook Pro an IP address and self-assigns itself one. Even manually entering the address in the 192.168.1.x/24 block, subnet mask, and default gateway address doesn’t work.
Through trial and hour for the past few hours, the key is that the password is case-sensitive. I had initially entered the password in lowercase letters. Without much luck, I deleted the password stored in the keychain, and tried again. But this time, I entered the same key in UPPERCASE.
It was beautiful.
