Alright, well, as you know I was planning on getting a new laptop this summer after Tiger and the enw PowerBooks come out. Well, tonight I decided to price out a dual 1.8 G5 for the hell of it...
Well, here's what I came up with. Same price as a maxed out PowerBook give or take a few dollars. So I got to thinking, should I just go for the G5 tower instead, and just get a 1gb kit for my PowerBook, and call it good? The G5 will be better for serious editing anyway, and I can just use my PB for when I am on the road and stuff.

Any ideas?

wow, G5s are still so expensive...

what are the specs of your current powerbook?

EDIT: congrats on 1,000 posts

Dam, I didn't even notice! LOL w00t! go me.

Well, I have the last 15in Ti PB, the 1ghz model with 512mb RAM, combo drive, 60gb HD. This summer I was going to upgrade with Tiger no matter what. Now I am just trying to think of the best way to go.

Oh, with the student discount, it's only $2695, not bad at all. The maxed out PB with discount was over $3k... (current PB)

well, then i would probably say go for the G5 desktop and just keep your current powerbook for now....it still has plenty of life left in it

Yea, for the money...the G5 is a powerhorse. You're right about the life spand, sure beats a PC where in 2 months it is ancient hardware... I think I might just get the 1gb RAM kit for my PB, and get the G5, it will still cost me less then a new PB. I just wish I could afford a 20in Apple display...too bad the Dell doesn't come in a sleek silver finish

I think you should have at least 1GB RAM on the G5.. then maybe it's worth it. Macs kinda load slow without 1GB RAM...

Would 768 MB of RAM for a Mac notebook (without doing heavy editing like video editing)?

I will order another 512-1gb from Crucial or something after I buy it. So I will have 1gb+ anyway.


DarkTemplar194: Yea, that will be enough. I do it on 512 right now and it's alright. I wouldn't go any less though The more the better.

You mean, would it be satisfactory? Yes i think so.

A small tip for when you feel the physical RAM usage has all been assigned - logout and login again. It feels like you just restarted your computer, but took 5 seconds.

I agree, works like a charm

StealthMode, how fast does your PB run on Panther?... Do you notice any particular apps freezing or crashing?

I'd go for the G5.

If it were I'd go for the G5. But then again I don't anywhere.

Nope, works fine, Safari stutters a bit when I am doing too much at a time and there are huge images displayed, but I think if I had more RAM it would be just fine. Panther runs like a dream, all my apps run perfect, no crashes or anything..



I think I am going to get the G5 this summer along with Tiger. Should be a decent upgrade from what I am using now. I just wish the Apple displays weren't going to cost $1300 for the 20in.... And it's too bad the Dell 20in doesn't match it any better either

i have the same tibook... I think it would be best for you to get a G5 desktop and keep the laptop, I mean Tiger won't be THAT bad on it... There is a Radeon 9200 in there which is probably as good as an FX5200 in the 12" powerbook... I ran Jaguar and run Panther pretty well with an old PISMO 500Mhz and 384mb of ram, the only thing that bogged it down was doing that expose stuff..

I thought it had the R7500?

Man...I seriously can't wait to get a G5. And for like $400 less then a PB... Anything you guys recomend other than 1gb of RAM?

I'm going crazy (ok, not really. But sort of ;-)) waiting for Tiger to come out! Grrr...

I'm not, Panther works perfectly for me. I'll be getting Tiger when it comes out though, will get it with my G5. Anybody think there will be a revision before I buy next summer?

Probably an announcement at Macworld in January...

Alright, sounds good. Thanks

RV250M9 <-- from "about this mac," I googled it and its a radeon 9000

Oh yea, thats right... Forgot

3 gb's of ram...

LOL I'll just start out with 1 for the time being What are you running DJ?

Well I don't have a Mac at all and most likely I'll wait till Tiger comes out before getting a Mac. So until Tiger, no Mac for me.



*whine*