Ibook purchase

[Lt Major Burns]

Originally Posted by pds

I love my 12 in G4 iBook and I am looking forward to loving my Core Duo 13.3 when I eventually get one (it is in the cards).

But I am wary of adopting early. I would rather let Northmendo and Major Burns beta test the first gen of Intel powered iBooks. I'll wait for the second or third rev (figuring Sept 06).

i'm not in the market for any type of ibook any more... i have a 4 year old one... and that went wrong ¬_¬.

plus my PowerMac is a rev c machine, that's hardly beta testing ......

[pds]

I was responding to sihr directly. He could wait and get the first run of the iBook replacement, taking a chance on it, or he could get a tried and true G4 now.

In your case - really tough choice, since you need the windows machine. If you need something now and have to get something else in Sept - you might think iBook now, macBook in Sept (when it's had it's kinks ironed out).

Major - I invoked a literary license, nothing personal.

[powermac]

Originally Posted by jwilker

maybe this will help.

the other commercials are below it.

I actually like that commercial best over the other ones.

[SatCure]

I have two old (second hand) G3 12" iBooks. All I've had to do is buy new batteries. So they cost me only a few hundred dollars each (about 300GBP - I'm in the UK). One is a 500MHz model that my son uses occasionally. The other is a 600MHz that can play DVDs, burn CDs, browse the web, handle email and let me write books. That's all I need while I'm away from home so it suits me well. I won't be "upgrading" for a long time. If it fails, I'll be back to eBay for another!

[Amie]

Originally Posted by Sihr

Hi guys, first post here :P
I've always wanted to buy a laptop, something small that i can take with me everywhere and recently i've been falling in love with the 12'' ibook. Being so close to buy one, i'm just wondering how good of a machine it is.
I've already asked around about software options but my main uses will be:
Internet browsing, video, comics reading and soft gaming (emulators and such) with the occasional programming task (going to college this year) and photoshop edit.

I already have my eyes on some apps to cover all the bases, what i want to know is: having a tight budget, is the ibook a good purchase? I'm a little fed up with the neowin forum mac section guys always saying to wait, the news ones will be bettah! FASTAH!.. you get what i'm saying, right? anyways, i already searched around for windows laptops, but they're quite ugly and i'd really like to try the mac os.

On a last note, i've yet to find one of there.. i'm looking for a photo of an ibook screen with a webpage or document open, to see how readable it is. The only store that sells them near me won't let me play with the little beast

Well sorry for the boring long post, and i'm looking forward to replies.
Thanks in advance

I looooooooove my iBook! Just ask any of the moderators here--they'll tell you I'm insanely in love and iBook-happy. Or they'll tell you I'm just insane, depending on who you ask.

[Sihr]

Thanks for your replies everyone, you guys are great!
I went out to day to check the availability of the ibook, and now i have yet another question: Isn't the ibook supposed to come with the Tiger version of os x? the ones they're selling come with the panther version..

[Amie]

Originally Posted by Sihr

Thanks for your replies everyone, you guys are great!
I went out to day to check the availability of the ibook, and now i have yet another question: Isn't the ibook supposed to come with the Tiger version of os x? the ones they're selling come with the panther version..

Yes, the current iBooks in the Apple store come with Tiger. Where did you go? I'm guessing it wasn't an Apple store. My iBook is a late 2004 model, which shipped with Panther. They started shipping them with Tiger around October 2005, if I recall correctly.

[ex2bot]

I don't know what part of the world you're in, Sihr, but what about ordering from Apple directly, www.apple.com/store or www.apple.com/education to get educational discounts?

As soon as you get it (or a new one if you wait), upgrade the memory. Buy more mem from Memorytogo.com or Crucial.com (etc.) I've always had good luck and good prices from www.memorytogo.com. Don't buy your memory from Apple unless you like throwing away money.

Advantages to the 12" ibook:
very portable
runs os x
reasonably sturdy
decent keyboard

Disadvantages:
screen's not very bright
hard drive is slow
graphics hardware is wimpy
microprocessor isn't very snappy

The new Macbooks are supposed to have (*according to oft-wrong rumors*) 13.3 widescreen displays and Intel Core Single or Duo microprocessors. they will likely be quite a bit faster, especially with native apps.

Doug