On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 12:05 AM, "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd be interested to know your opinion of the speed and behaviour of > OS X on the 400MHz tiBook, I'll be in the market for either a iBook or > tiBook in April and my choices are 800MHz combo drive 12" iBook (new) > or 400MHz tiBook. For comparison, I once and briefly ran OS X.1 on my 7500 with its 200Mhz 604e and 512MB RAM and it was utterly usable (i.e. web browsing and text editing), although not good enough for long-term use. A friend runs X.2 on a G4 400 desktop for everyday use without any trouble at all. That said, I would pick the 800Mhz iBook out of the two. I am quite happily running X.2 on the 700Mhz iBook without the larger VRAM (800Mhz has twice as much), and the 12" screen is so bright and so crisp I don't care how small it is. It sure beats my old 12" IBM Thinkpad running Linux hands down in terms of readability. The only thing that bothers me is how I have to shuffle so many windows around due to the small 1024 real estate, but the main problem there is OS X's lack of a decent "shuffler" like the Windows/Gnome/etc task bar, rather than the screen rez. You might be able to find a 700Mhz 14" for around the same if screen size is really an issue for you (although rez would stay the same), and these are markedly less crisp than the 12" screens. --Chris iBook 700 OS X.2.4 PM 7500/200 OS 8.6 PM 4400/200 OS 8.6, NetBSD -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
