Congrats on the upgrade! You'll notice a nice performance boost.
From my perspective, you'll get a nice boost by upgrading the RAM (pulling the 128MB module and replacing it with a 512MB). You have a full year to get AppleCare, so unless you need the phone support (which is initially only 90 days), you have some time. You can elect it anytime during the first year warranty and it will add 2 years to the total time. It also extends the phone support from 90 days to the full 3 years. In the end, I recommend it "just in case". You can often find ithe enrollment kits discounted online as well. I got mine (iBook-specific) for around $125 on one of the boards.
I'm a big fan of Airport, and highly recommend it. The Apple card isn't too expensive (and you can usually catch one on eBay). I really like the base stations as well, but if you don't need the external modem and antenna jacks, you might be able to get by with the new Airport Express. It' looks really slick and is a bit cheaper.
I have one each of the Airport Extreme base stations (with and without the external antenna jack) and they work great. I use one as a repeater to completely cover my house for wireless.
Good luck with the new hardware.
-Hal
On Jun 8, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Samantha Goodson wrote:
Today I ordered a refurb 12" Ibook 800Mhz G4/256MB/30GB/Combo from the apple
store. This is a big jump for me, as I'm writing this on a 250Mhz G3
upgraded 1400cs running OS 8.6. The ibook was as much as I could afford at
one go, but I'd like to get AppleCare, max out the ram, and get an airport
card and base station. Any recommendations on the order to do these things
in and/or other improvements I really should make? I"m also looking for a
good handbook on Panther. Any recommendations there?
peace, love, and joy,
Samantha
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