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Old March 6th, 2007, 12:14 AM
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i need your opinions.

do you guys think its worth getting an ibook g4 as my first mac or should i just go with the macbook?

i can't really afford the macbook, but is feasible.

i've used an ibook g4 back in high school and loved it.

would the ibook g4 be a good choice? is there any major problems with them?

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Old March 10th, 2007, 03:03 PM
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The Macbook is MUCH faster than the fastest iBook. The iBooks were always underperformers. You might want to think about a refurbished Macbook. Go to store.apple.com and scroll down to the bottom right where it says something about getting a deal. Or Google "refurbished macbook". They're quite a bit cheaper, and they're covered with a year warranty.

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I second going with the MacBook if you can. The G4 chip in the iBook G4 (or ANY G4-based Apple notebook) is just too out-of-date compared to the Intel Core chips in current Apple portables.
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