Buying my first p-p-powerbook. Any apple peeps in the house?

[iwearnosox]

Lol, met the guy at a burger joint in the hood. Totally cool guy though, and his story seemed legit. It was a craigslist purchase. Brand new in box though, great price. I'll unpack it shortly and dive in.

Thanks for all the advice, I will examine all of it! :beer:

 

[chcarnage]

The next Powerbook product line update likely is in 1-3 Months (Buyers's [email]Guide@macrumors.com[/email]). But in the meantime, $1700 is a very good offer.

If you want to bring out the best of the Powerbook, get as much RAM as you can get

You can find some software suggestions for OS X here.

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
On a related note. I don't have a PC at home and have been thinking about buying the mini. All I need it for would be internet, email, etc...I'm not a gamer at all except for the XBox.

Opinions?

The Mac Mini is able to do this tasks and a cheap way to tinker with OS X.

But I would suggest to upgrade the RAM to 512 MB because the (notebook) hd is reported to not exactly break speed records so virtual memory usage would slow down the system.

 

[iwearnosox]

Wow this thing is really sexy. I have no idea how to use it but it makes me feel like I need to make sweet love to it. :heart:

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: chcarnage
The next Powerbook product line update likely is in 1-3 Months (Buyers's [email]Guide@macrumors.com[/email]). But in the meantime, $1700 is a very good offer.

If you want to bring out the best of the Powerbook, get as much RAM as you can get

You can find some software suggestions for OS X here.

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
On a related note. I don't have a PC at home and have been thinking about buying the mini. All I need it for would be internet, email, etc...I'm not a gamer at all except for the XBox.

Opinions?

The Mac Mini is able to do this tasks and a cheap way to tinker with OS X.

But I would suggest to upgrade the RAM to 512 MB because the (notebook) hd is reported to not exactly break speed records so virtual memory usage would slow down the system.

Well I have a 512mb dimm on hand but there's two 256'ers already in there, right? So I would have 768 total? Is that enough?

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox

Originally posted by: chcarnage
The next Powerbook product line update likely is in 1-3 Months (Buyers's [email]Guide@macrumors.com[/email]). But in the meantime, $1700 is a very good offer.

If you want to bring out the best of the Powerbook, get as much RAM as you can get

You can find some software suggestions for OS X here.

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
On a related note. I don't have a PC at home and have been thinking about buying the mini. All I need it for would be internet, email, etc...I'm not a gamer at all except for the XBox.

Opinions?

The Mac Mini is able to do this tasks and a cheap way to tinker with OS X.

But I would suggest to upgrade the RAM to 512 MB because the (notebook) hd is reported to not exactly break speed records so virtual memory usage would slow down the system.

Well I have a 512mb dimm on hand but there's two 256'ers already in there, right? So I would have 768 total? Is that enough?

i would suggest upgrading to 1 gig. 512 should be ok and so should any weird combo above that. but some mac programs, despite X having been around for a while, are just sloppy ports.
so...instead of shelling out the cash for ram, just stick to good mac or mac-only developers . check out their sites and see if they update a lot because otherwise, some programs (like IE mentioned above) are so sloppy they crash or are needlessly memory hogs.

one of the apple-standard programs that can get memory insane is garage band. personally, i dont like the program unless you have a midi keyboard...but even with tons of memory on some powerbooks, ive had trouble running it.

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

apple sucks for speed and operating systems

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: SuperTyphoon
apple sucks for speed and operating systems

SuperTyphoon sucks for clarity.