Samantha:
You're gonna really like the iBook. It's a wonderful machine. Ram should be the first priority and unless they changed things, it should have only one slot, so you're gonna have to save and buy the big one. Otherwise you'll be taking out one RAM chip when you get a bigger one. AppleCare is really important to, but you have a year. The computer comes with a one year warranty and as long as you buy it before the year is up, you're ok.
Timothy is right about third party base station, but Apple just introduced the new airport express, which goes for $125. As I understand it, it pretty much does everything you would want for a small base station, except: 1)limited to 10 connections rather than 50, 2) no modem, so if you have dial up, that's a problem 3) No external antennae option 4)on ethernet jack to connect to a wired lan. But it also has a connection to speaker, so you can connect to you stereo and a usb jack so you can connection to you printer. So if you have a small network, I'd look seriously at these little gagets, if you want to stay with apple.
John Slavin
On Wednesday, June 9, 2004, at 04:43 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
On 6/8/04 7:21 PM, "Samantha Goodson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
WOW! I once upgraded an office from 386/486 machines running DOS to
Pentium3s running Win2k. They skipped Win9x altogether like you skipped
OS9!!
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.
1) RAM 2) Airport and base station (checkout AirTunes!) 3) AppleCare
Unless you drop your iBook, in which case I would suggest getting AppleCare
first :-)
RAM will effect everything else that you do, so get it first. Airport and
base station is a nice addition. If you don't need AppleScript, you can get
a non-Apple base for cheaper than Airport (although Airport is nice and
easier IMO).
John Slavin Kirksville, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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