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Considering a Powerbook
- Thread starter Modeps
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Mac OS X has a lot of free software out there but there may be some stuff that you have to buy for it depending upon what you're looking to accomplish. A pretty fair amount of free software can be found at freshmeat and a fair amount of software that will run under Linux/BSD will run on the Mac as well.
Modeps
Lifer
Not sure what I'm looking for, just the fact that I dont wanna have to drop $150 for every program I wanna buy. Finalcut Pro looks pretty expensive, but the model I'm looking at comes with iDVD and some other stuff. I've been very impressed with every mac product I've messed with, and my laptop is dying slowly, so I figured I'd give the other world a shot.
Well, final cut pro is expensive.It is also top of the line editing software.You would pay that much for it with windows.I am a pretty big open-source advocate.In fact besides the software that came with my mac I do not have and closed source software ( except mathematica)
Not really. What's the price difference?
There's plenty of free software out there for OS X.
revnja
Platinum Member
You're probably not going to notice a lot of difference between the 1.5ghz and 1.67ghz procs. Just make sure you have a lot of memory in the PB, that will make the most difference out of anything really.
As for software, the open source community for Mac OS X is amazing. Since the OS comes with a free dev kit, it's easy for developers to get into the game -- and it shows. There's a plethora of amazing open source software for the Mac platform. Good sites to look for Mac software are versiontracker.com/macosx and macupdate.com.
It sounds like you're thinking of editing video. While Final Cut Pro is expensive, Apple offers a version called Final Cut Express that is considerably cheaper and still has a lot of great, powerful features. Any Powerbook you buy nowadays will come with the iLife suite, meaning you'll get iMovie HD with the machine, which is good for the casual/home movie editor. It's quick and simple. The iLife suite also comes with iDVD, so you can publish your iMovie projects straight to DVD without a lot of hassle. The iLife apps were all made to be integrated with each other, and they do a good job complementing each other.
Good luck with your Powerbook if you decide to get one. I'm still in love with my Powerbook G4, it really is a good machine.
As for software, the open source community for Mac OS X is amazing. Since the OS comes with a free dev kit, it's easy for developers to get into the game -- and it shows. There's a plethora of amazing open source software for the Mac platform. Good sites to look for Mac software are versiontracker.com/macosx and macupdate.com.
It sounds like you're thinking of editing video. While Final Cut Pro is expensive, Apple offers a version called Final Cut Express that is considerably cheaper and still has a lot of great, powerful features. Any Powerbook you buy nowadays will come with the iLife suite, meaning you'll get iMovie HD with the machine, which is good for the casual/home movie editor. It's quick and simple. The iLife suite also comes with iDVD, so you can publish your iMovie projects straight to DVD without a lot of hassle. The iLife apps were all made to be integrated with each other, and they do a good job complementing each other.
Good luck with your Powerbook if you decide to get one. I'm still in love with my Powerbook G4, it really is a good machine.
Put that money toward AppleCare.
Modeps
Lifer
you'd think after 5 years i'd learn better! Nope.
adambooth, thanks for the great info. a co-worker has a powerbook at work, and he's always complaining because of the lack of memory in it.. so I presumed that I'd get more out of paying for an extra 512mb of ram instead of the faster processor.
I have it on both of my PowerBooks. I find it worth the money, but if you want to save the cash it's up to you. It's a lot of money.
You should also get the bare minimum RAM from Apple and get the rest from Crucial or Newegg. They rape you on RAM at install.
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