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I'm ashamed to admit that the inner workings of them are all handwavey handwavey magic smoke to me.
Which is. of course, what Apple wants. But suffice it to say that, at the moment, the Powerbook 12" and iBook are pretty much the same computer inside, with a very few slight exceptions.
In fact, it's quite likely this will be the last 12" Powerbook - there have been mumblings that there will never be a smaller form factor Macbook Pro, at least not for a long time. Instead, the widescreen 13" iBooks (Macbooks?) that should be announced in the next month or so will be the only smaller Mac laptops.
Well, now I have absolutely no idea what to get.
Edit: By which I mean, crapsticks, now I actually have to spend time
thinking hard
about what I want.
I've got 17" Powerbook and it's my workhorse. I don't find the size very much of a problem. I'd love a MacBook but am holding until they put out a 17" model. The extra screen real estate is so totally worth it to me when I'm doing any kind of editing or remotely controlling multiple machines.
shrift, fill out this survey:
- How big a laptop do you want?
- What will you use it for? (mention any specific software you will use regularly - photoshop? DVD Studio?)
- When do you want it? That is - now, or can you wait a few months?
- Anything else you think might help
okey. advice on making my iMac work better, please? Since I see the mac folks are out in full force. hee.
I have an iMac G3 and I'm running 10.1.2. I know I need to update the OS, but to what? Tiger says I need a DVD drive?!?! to update.
The retail Tiger package ships on a DVD but you can have Apple trade it out for CD's after you've purchased it. I'm not sure how happy Tiger would be running on a G3 though. How much memory do you have? Tiger really likes no less than 512MB and I recommend having at least 1GB.
Hmm. I'm not sure, Allyson - the iMac G3 is before my Mac time. I think Panther still worked on them for sure, and you might be able to get Tiger on CD if you glare hard enough at Apple through the phone.
Somebody is going to answer that question better than I did. Maybe before me.
(Note: prolonged exposure to computer labs leads to my inability to type well in QWERTY
or
dvorak. My poor confused fingers!)
I'm not sure how happy Tiger would be running on a G3 though.
Not happy at all. I just got rid of my graphite iMac G3 (which did have a CD/DVD drive). With the RAM maxed out, it didn't like 10.3 a whole lot but it really didn't like Tiger.
I'm not an expert - but I had a lot of Mac geek friends look at it and we could really never make it work well once I upgraded (for example all browsers I used quit on me all.the.time, Word didn't work so well, I got a ton of sudden freezes when doing just about nothing and no CD burner would work with either Toast or iTunes once I upgraded no matter what I did).
I wish I had something better to tell you...
ETA: I ended up putting 10.3 back on it and giving it to a computer-less friend who just wanted something he could load his iPod with.
Allyson, a refurb Mac Mini might be a better option for you.
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