Buying a ibook or laptop?


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Nuka_t:

<5lbs.

< 1.5" thick

> 802.11g

Durable

Somewhat stylish

Ships from the factory with a *NIX OS guaranteed to work with all hardware and features

cd-rw/dvd-rom, 802.11g, one or two usb/firewire pots and maybe the ability to run photoshop/office natively (preferably without rebooting)

Those are pretty much the only requirements I have for notebook. The ibook does those things extremely well for only $1100. Fact of the matter is I'm not sure any x86 notebook manufacturer can do the same thing for that price (though you're free to post a link). I paid a little more for a powerbook, but I went back and picked up an ibook too for exactly the kind of things he described a few weeks later. When the tibook is uncomfortable (ie: when I'm in the kitchen, or lazing about in the sun) then I use an ibook and I've got no real complaints except that maybe i don't need $8,000cdn worth of portable computer littering my house (bough the tibook before the insane pricecuts that drop it down to <$3000) but that's all good.

Just because your requirements are to have a bazillion ghz, and a petabyte of drive space, and you're willing to pay the price in size, weight, and live tied to the wall for all but two hours a day doesn't mean he is. Read the guys requirements, he said nothing that would make you suspect that an iBook wouldn't be acceptable.

If i were in the OPs position I'd probably pick up a 12" ibook, add some memory, and use the extra cash to buy office ($150), Dreamweaver ($99 as a student) and fireworks ($99). If there was still some change then an iPod, and maybe an external bluetooth mouse would round out the package really nicely.[GOOGLE]

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Emmmm, isn't the iBook a laptop?

Yes it is

I went and checked them out at CompUSA and I have to say the ibook keyboard feels kinda cheap to me and the 14inch ones seem kinda clunky...I'm going for a powerbook myself :yes: cant decide 12 or 15 but oh well :blink:

You can debate mac vs pc till you're blue in the face...its just like arguing ati or nvidia or amd or intel...I've been a dedicated PC user for a long time now but I'm bored with them so i'm going to try a mac on for size. I'll probably switch back when longhorn ships but until then OSX me baby!

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buying a laptop for gaming is silly imho

I was wondering if anyone was going to say that. Buying a laptop with over a 15' screen is silly too, but to each their own.

I'd be much happier with a 1ghz 512MB 12' laptop for a couple hundred and a decent desktop for a couple hundred than a 2ghz 1GB 17' with a ATI mobility for a few thousand.

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i replaced my 17in monitor,32mb ati vid card, soundblaster Live!, 1.6GHz P4, 60GB, 384mb pc133 ram, 16xCD-RW, dell desktop, with a HP Pavilion 15in screen, 128MB ati vid card, 40GB, AMD Athlon2500+ mobile(1.89GHz), 630?(cant think off the top of my head) 2100ram, 24x cd-rw/DVD, and integrated sound. It was the best thing i ever did, i use it for WebDevelopment, configuring cisco routers, programming, video games, music, movies, office work, class reports, everything. and it was only $700 + the price of a 512mb ram upgrade i got. i use Fireworks, dreamweaver, Visiual studio, office xp, windows XP i LOVE it.

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