never thought I would be getting a mac

All right, usually I bash macs. But it is time in my life where I now am going to start college doing graphic design and I got a internship doing it. This led me to looking into getting a laptop. Big things I kept in mind was battery life, hd space, and ram.

I then came across the ibook.

6 hours of battery life on a single charge. This out does all the ones I looked at.

1 firewire port
2 usb
video out
60 hd
640 ram
900mhz
ati radeon 7500 g-card
wireless card
100mbps ethernet port
56k port
14 inch monitor display
dvd/cdrw-"combo drive"

All just 4.9 pounds in a sleek white color clam design

And another option that amazed me is "rondeview"(sp?) Its a dynamic dns system based on zeroconf, so when you get on a netowork you are updated on all the services that are avalible to you.

Being a networking guy/wireless I then again frowned upon the o/s but then read that you can go command line!

So if all goes well I'll be getting a mac. Its no gaming machine, but I have that at home! so mac will be my mobile graphics station.

Take a look at the 12" Powerbook too. It's the same price as that 14" iBook, only you get the G4 instead of the G3. And for $200 more, you can get a superdrive in it.

Silly Mac basher, you didn't even know about rendezvous or the command line but bash it anyway. . . For shame.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/ you cant bash this...anyone that does will get whipped by and hardcore users

I wanna a mac! :(
grrr must find better job

hm, dek if I do that then I would lose ram and hd space. g3 900mhz isnt bad is it? Is it quick?

wasn't there disputes in the discussion about the actual battery life compared to the advertised battery life? might wanna look into that...i haven't been keeping up w/ my reading

I would like to hear about that, I'll look into it

No matter what, they are more power-efficient than any windows machine available anywhere, at any price.

Give it a fair shake, Michael and I'm sure you'll be happy you got a Mac.

Yeah, I have my 1.53amd xp for games at home I feel this mac will be sexy.

Originally posted by Utopian23
No matter what, they are more power-efficient than any windows machine available anywhere, at any price.

Give it a fair shake, Michael and I'm sure you'll be happy you got a Mac.

well thats not 100% true, ibm think pad t40 has great battery life, 7+ hours. although it is 3200 dollars but it still beats it.

but ibooks are cool, if you can deal with the 1024x768. personally i cant thats why i go with ti powerbook. anyway have fun with it, im sure you will.