ibook G3

[GregRC]

lol, thats a good idea

[GregRC]

I had such a machine and sold it, and bought a faster one again.

The big problem with the 500 MHz one is the videocard. It doesn't support Quartz Extreme which means scrolling the web, scrolling documents in word, the expose effect, everything will be software accelerated and extremely slow.

I bought myself a newer 800 Mhz G3 with a 32 MB Vidcard with support for Quartz Extreme, and the difference is really big.

One other disadvantage of the 500 is that it doesn't support screenspanning only mirroring. There is a patch written for ibooks which will enable screenspanning, but only models with 32 MB vidcards are supported.

Really, quartz extreme is a major difference.

Edit:

Another problem the 500 had, it had a normal dvd drive, no combo, but it didn't have support for DVD+ , only for DVD -. I had to use a special booktype tool on my pc which changed the booktype from a dvd+ to dvd-rom during the burning process.(Lite On provides such a tool) So DVD+ which where already burned and didn't have their booktype changed didn't work with the iBook. The simple reason is, the dvd player of the iBook first checks what the booktype of the DVD is. Because the 500 MHz one was produced before the major breaktrough of DVD+, it only recognized the DVD-ROM and DVD- booktype.

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ok so u r tellin me that the dvd drive doesnt read dvd+r?? or what??