ibook g4

[macewan]

got a chance to use an ibook g4 this evening - the 12". nice system, quick as hell

[alfonz]

yeah they are sweet, if you can get ur hands on a power book even better ;)

why don't you try running Ubuntu on it :), live CD perhaps...

[xequence]

I want one so much.

OSX is so cool...

But I could never afford one.

If they didnt have tax I could get a really low end mac mini, but I could get a way better PC for that money.

[fuscia]

what about it was quick? any time i've ever used one, i found it to be most sluggish.

[alfonz]

not sure about the ibooks much but I have used powerbooks and they seem pretty quick, it also depends on what osx version you are using, some of the newer ones run a little slow on a G4.

[Iandefor]

*Drool* I like iBook G4's... Powerbooks are even better. Really great platform for multimedia editing and the like.

[Deaf_Head]

lol, i'd love to get a ibook so i could install ubuntu on it ....

[alfonz]

speaking of which my cousin has and ibook G4, but I'd dout that she would let me install Ubuntu on it or even run the ppc Live CD :(

[Deaf_Head]

speaking of which my cousin has and ibook G4, but I'd dout that she would let me install Ubuntu on it or even run the ppc Live CD :(


I don't know about your cousin but I find that GENERALLY mac users are dumber and more dependant than the average windows user because mac's interface is so good and control over what products they can use is so firm. lol

MAKE HER SEE THE LIGHT, ok.

[macewan]

hey all, haven't tried livecd on it yet - it's my wife's new laptop.

[Protostar]

Not worth the money IMO. Apple's are so ridiculously overppriced.

[xequence]

Not worth the money IMO. Apple's are so ridiculously overppriced.

Yea, its because they have a monopoly... Not on the computer market, but on the OSX hardware market. You can only get OSX on a mac. No competition at all.

Want OSX? You are at the whims of apples hardware pricing.

[Iandefor]

Not worth the money IMO. Apple's are so ridiculously overppriced. I wouldn't say "ridiculously" overpriced. Just more than is fair to charge. Either way, I like OS X when it has enough processing power on hand to actually be responsive :-D.

[3rdalbum]

Locally-made computers are cheap, and they often develop problems or suffer unexplained crashes.

Computers built by real companies (Compaq, HP, Dell etc) are a bit more expensive, and are much more stable.

Stuff built by Apple lasts forever and is expensive. The Mac beside me is 9 years old. The Apple monitor connected to that computer is 15 years old. It's still running flawlessly.

In other words, even for Macs, you get what you pay for. There's nothing wrong with that.

In reply to an earlier poster, Mac users generally are at least as knowlegable as PC users. All Mac users know how to open documents in currently-running programs using drag 'n' drop. Few Windows users know that. All Mac users know what Firewire is. Most Windows users don't.

There's nothing wrong with not being knowlegable about computers, but I've found that Mac users generally know more about their own machines than Windows users do about theirs.

[engla]

Locally-made computers are cheap, and they often develop problems or suffer unexplained crashes.

Computers built by real companies (Compaq, HP, Dell etc) are a bit more expensive, and are much more stable.

Stuff built by Apple lasts forever and is expensive. The Mac beside me is 9 years old. The Apple monitor connected to that computer is 15 years old. It's still running flawlessly.

In other words, even for Macs, you get what you pay for. There's nothing wrong with that.

In reply to an earlier poster, Mac users generally are at least as knowlegable as PC users. All Mac users know how to open documents in currently-running programs using drag 'n' drop. Few Windows users know that. All Mac users know what Firewire is. Most Windows users don't.

There's nothing wrong with not being knowlegable about computers, but I've found that Mac users generally know more about their own machines than Windows users do about theirs.

Yeah, and the mac users also have that great terminal so you can install stuff from the fink project [fink.sf.net] with apt-get! Some users find out they can do a hell of a lot in this *nix-like world, and eventually some of them drop into Linux ;-)