Re: Anyone moved to a new G4 iBook

[Hal]

On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 01:26 AM, Tom Burke wrote:

On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:39  am, G-Books wrote:
on 10/29/03 7:33 AM, Tom Burke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I think they close the gap a great deal. Last Christmas my wife was
looking for a Mac and bought a used Pismo rather than an iBook; for 
her
the attraction of the Pismo was the DVD player. And again this 
summer I
bought a 12" Powerbook rather than an iBook for much the same reason
Tom, what are you talking about?  iBooks have had DVD playback option 
for
years...
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was referring to the entry level 
12" iBook, which until this upgrade just had a CD drive, plus of 
course a G3. That was what my wife was looking at, and abouit 11 
months ago a used Pismo looked like a better deal - 14" screen, DVD 
player, etc, etc, for rather less money. With the latest upgrade the 
entry level iBook has come on a long way - G4, Combo-drive, 30 Gb 
disk, etc. I was just wondering if the differences in spec between the 
entry-level 12" iBook and the entry-level 12" Powerbook are worth the 
considerable difference in cost?

Powerbook: 1 Ghz CPU; extra video capability (non-mirrored monitor at 
different resolution); digital video out; 40 Gb HDD; umm - anything 
else?
iBook: 800 Mhz CPU; mirrored-video only; analogue output only; 30 Gb 
drive (as standard, 40 Gb available as 'build-to-order').

Pretty much everything else is much the same, as far as I can see.

I would have to argue that the Powerbook 12" is still a great option to 
have. I briefly had an 867mHz Powerbook G4 (12") and the difference 
between that and the new 1gHz model is HUGE. It is significant;y faster 
(the difference between 256k and 512k cache is quite noticeable).

The new iBook G4 is much closer in horsepower to the old 867 than the 
new 1gHz 12" Powerbook.

I upgraded from an 800mHz TiBook, and the 867mHz 12" Powerbook seemed 
slower overall than the TiBook. The new 1gHz version is much faster. I 
couldn't run VPC very well on the TiBook, but it runs great on the new 
12" Powerbook.

Just my $0.02.

-Hal

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