12" ibook regular pc notebook equivalent?

[youyou]

what does the basic model of ibook equivalent to in pc notebooks? i am pc user and always looking forward to try a mac. well, has to be cheap. so i need to have an idea what i am getting for the money.

btw. school apple store online offers $949(basic model + combo +airport extrme), some how i got a $100 off "education" coupon in my email that i previously applied for, so does that mean it's $849? is it a good deal?

thanks :D :D :D

[YBG]

849 sounds good to me. When you say equivalent to, what aspects do you mean? Like processor-wise or overall?

[youyou]

i guess i mean over all, btw does any one knowhow long can the standard battary on that ibook last?

[CoolioVendetta]

Mines lasts between 3 and 6 1/2 hours depending on what im doing. Watching vids etc. Still gets a good 3 hours + for constant movies/tv series etc after having the ibook for 3 months or so.

[+StevoFC MVC]

my 14 inch always lasts atleast 4 1/2 hours.

it's lasted 7 hours before also.

[YBG]

Are you guys serious? When I'm on my friend's iBook (newest ver.) It seems like his power goes down to like 50% in an hour..

[chmsant]

you are trying to compare oranges to apples (pardon the pun). They are 2 different methods of computing/processing data. So you will never truly find a comparison of performance aspects when it comes to data. Thats just all there is to it.

[dailyplanet]

I don't think the $100 rebate applies to the 12' iBook.

[youyou]

I don't think the $100 rebate applies to the 12' iBook.

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ibook computers configured witha CD-ROM optical drive and all eMAC and MAC mini models are excluded from this offer.

the one i am looking at has Combo not CD-ROM

[BajiRav]

what kind of performance are you trying to compare ?

anything related to video editing or gaming (limited available) is a nightmare on iBook G4...its really slow. Otherwise for regular browse/email/chat functionality its ok.

overallI guess any celeron M based system with 1.5 GHz & up would match up for the basic function. Get a pentium M based system if you need video editing + other stuff.

G4 is overall slow IMO.

[youyou]

thanks dhan, that helps. i would need to do some photoshop and flash editing. guess ibook would not be enough.

[+StevoFC MVC]

photoshop works with no problems on my ibook. it doesn't seem slow to me really at all, and i also have a desktop which is a 3.6ghz p4.

[Amnesia]

i have an iBook 12" with 768mb ram.

Photoshop loads up for me in 5 seconds where as it takes a while on my 3.2Ghz dual pc.

[youyou]

yea, i am planning on getting 512 ram if i buy it, 256 probably not enough.

how many space does the OS take? is 30G HD enough?

[Amnesia]

it's enough for me.

After installing all the apps.

(Office, Photoshop and a bunch of others including a few games fully installed) I have around 15gb left empty space.

Seems enough for me.

I'm going to be getting an external hard-drive since it's the safest option these days anyway, plus you can get small palm sized ones as well.

[youyou]

Went to Apple center today, found that i didn't like the ibooks that much, feels cheap. but for 900 bucks, i maybe should not expect that much :o :o :o

[Huy]

You get what you pay for. If you want quality, get a PowerBook. Otherwise, an iBook is fine for most users. Even if it may feel "cheap".