Help! I've ordered an iBook 800, and it has no name yet...

Hmm... We _do_ kinda talk about the same stuff here and on icity.net.tc, right? :)

I'll grab my Digital Camera tonight and put - at least - one picture online.

I've just made the open firmware believe that the iBook _can_ have dual monitors (with spanning), and now I'm working on the internal 12" screen AND the external 17" (1280*1024) TFT. :) niiiiiiiiiice.
 
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The mess is necessary. I'd think it was a fake photo otherwise ;)

Nice setup. Wish I had the money to get a powerbook. I miss my old PB G3.

I go for strange names....my G4 is Dreamstatic, my iPod is Darkfire, and that old G3 I mentioned was Dreamscape (which I decided to rename the HD OS 9 is installed on in my G4).
 
So Fryke, what are your impressions on the new iBook? :) Faster or slower than your Ti? And how often do you think you'll use your old Powerbook now that you have your iBook?
 
I've already decided to get rid of that Ti, in fact. ;)

Basically, it's wonderful to see that QuartzExtreme really helps take some load off the processor. This helps the G3 more than a G4, I believe, as some of those routines are/were AltiVec enhanced.

In everyday use (browsing, mailing, writing short stories and poetry, switching between large applications like GoLive and Photoshop), the iBook 800 definitely beats my TiBook 500. Yes, it has 640 instead of 512 MB RAM, but that shouldn't make TOO much of a difference, I suppose.

The machine feels more sturdy, which I like, and it's small, which I like, too. Guess a 12" PowerBook would have been THE machine for me, but for one I didn't have the money for that (yet) and then I heard they get hot, which I believe, coming from a TiBook.

The fact that a small firmware hack enabled monitor spanning made the TiBook sellable for me. Now I can work on my designs on 1280*1024 + 1024*768 and that's enough space for what I'm doing (layout of brochures and my books, designs for web applications etc.).

I'm also glad I didn't opt for the 700 MHz version. I wouldn't have needed the 100 MHz nor the CDRW/DVD Combo drive, but the VRAM is important. While the graphics card of the Ti was 'okay' at the beginning, that's where the Ti showed its age. So I'm happy I got that iBook.

However, if money hadn't been an issue, I would have bought the PB12 maxed out with a SuperDrive, of course.
 
Originally posted by fryke
I've already decided to get rid of that Ti, in fact. ;)
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Oooh, I'm interested. :D

Glad to hear that you like your new computer, Fryke. It's well deserved, I think.
 
Site rules do not allow me to post a link here. :/ But it's about
'monitor spanning' on a
'ibook'
with a
'firmware'
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Originally posted by fryke

The machine feels more sturdy, which I like, and it's small, which I like, too. Guess a 12" PowerBook would have been THE machine for me, but for one I didn't have the money for that (yet) and then I heard they get hot, which I believe, coming from a TiBook.
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I've tried a PB12" at the Marin Manor store, and indeed the bottom is hot. The top is just nice warm, but the bottom is so hot, you will not put is on your legs for working in a plane... it's even worse that a Pentium portable.

It's a portable to be put on a desk... I hope it will improve with new G4 generation, narrower technologies should enable lower power operation.
 
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