what to do! pick for me..

so what to do :( we have
G4Powermac
option 1
• 1.25GHz w/ 1MB L3 Cache
• 1GB DDR333 SDRAM (PC2700) - 2 DIMMs
• 80GB Ultra ATA drive
• Optical 1 - Apple SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
• Optical 2 - None
• ATI Radeon 9000 Pro dual-display w/64MB DDR
• 56K internal modem
• Apple Pro Keyboard - U.S. English
• Mac OS - U.S. English


Subtotal $2,661.00 (cdn)

option 2 (unpractically super cool) g4Powerbook
• 1GHz PowerPC G4
• 512MB DDR266 (256MB built-in & 256MB SO-DIMM)
• 40GB Ultra ATA drive @ 4200rpm
• Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
• Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
• 12.1-inch TFT Display


Subtotal $2,449.00

Depends... if you really need a laptop, then the powerbook would be great. But the powermac is faster and will last longer, and is more upgradeable in the long run. So unless you really need a laptop I'd go for the desktop.

i love the notebook notebooks are so cool, if you can live with it cause i dont know about upgrading later..........

I don't even both to upgrade my pc's, I had a 266 for about 5 years ( I still have it wee) and the only thing I ever did was buy more ram .. it was a desktop tho, but I think the principle still applys.

Also I like to go on long road trips and take butt loads of pics with the digital camera soo I'm startin to lean more and more towards the powerbook

go with the desktop unless you really need the portability of a laptop. you will be glad you got a desktop when you want to just upgrade 1 part and dont have to buy a whole new computer or suffer with outdated parts.

Fine, DON'T LISTEN TO US YOU JERK!!!



Actually I'm the same way, never really upgraded any of my computers. Just waited until they were too slow, and bought a completely new one. I didn't just add some firewire ports to this computer for my ipod though. Which I couldn't have done a laptop.

But Apple's laptops are pretty futureproof I think. Not to mention damn sexy. And if you get an Airport Extreme card, you can compute from your bed, your toilet, your porch, etc. Not to mention the coffee shop, mcdonald's, the strip club, the hockey games, ice fishing, skiing, fighting polar bears, riding to work on your snowmobile, and all those other things you do in canada. You could even compute from the back of a moose.

well if you never upgrade than the choice is easy!!!!!!

The 17 inch labtop that m,achine has my drool all over it...

lol thats why I don't want it :P

Buy the best G5 you can afford, load it with as much reliable 3rd-party RAM as you can get (minimum of 2 GB), hope it ships with Panther (Or load it A.S.A.P.), configure your old machine as a server for print and the net.

Keep both machines clean, do your regular preventative maintenance, and don't load either of them with superfluous crap apps.

Big stash, No crash, All flash. Make your friends—and more importantly, your enemies—more jealous than they've ever been in their sad, deprived lives.

hahah I like the way you think