How good are Apples ??

[isekii]

How good are Apple iBooks ? ?

lets say compared to a P4 M 1.8ghz Dell ?

is a 800mhz G3 processor equivalent ?


the new ibooks that are out and even the older ones look so sexy~ with OSX

I might get one

any opinions ? advice ?

 

[notfred]

An 800mhz G3 is slower than a p4 1.8. I have one (mine's 700mhz).

Not as much processing power, but I don't need a 2ghz laptop.

 

[Anubis]

get the P4

 

[Eli]

Apples are very good.

I prefer Granny Smith. 🙂

 

[speg]

I know what you mean, the new apples are so sexy they make me want to wet my pants 😉

 

[AvesPKS]

Yeah, I've been trying to bring myself to buy an iBook for a long time now.

 

[aswedc]

Stop reading right here. No one knows which is actually faster, no one ever will. You'll just get a 5 page flame fest. The Mac is not a gaming machine so it doesn't really matter anyway. You just have to decide if you're comfortable paying Apple's price premium to get OS X, which most agree is a superior OS to Windows.

 

[HomerSapien]

The one thing that is overlooked when comparing speed is that OSX does not need a 2ghz chip to run smoothly. you cant really compare the chip speeds since the architecture is so different. I have a tibook with a G4 667. It is blazing quick for what i need it for. (Not games, but it can play Warcraft 3 really good) I used a g3 300 with 10.2.4 this weeekend and it responded quickly to everything.

The G3 is still a good chip, but you should get the G4 instead. much quicker chip. (mainly for guaranteed support for quartz extreme. QE needs 16 megs of video mem to run and i forget where they switched from 8 meg cards) The ibook is great since it is virtually indestructible as it will boot after you run over it with a car and they really do have 3 hours of battery life.

The Ti Books have multihead support and you can hack an ibook to do it fairly easy. It already has the hookup and it is only a software modification.

if you are switching from a pc, it will may seem a little bit slower in internet browsing, but that is changing.

Sorry im rambling..Overall, i would get the 12 inch powerbook since it is a g4 and one hell of a computer, but that is just me.

 

[notfred]

Quartz extreme works fine on G3s as lnog as they have 16megs of video ram or more (you can actually hack it to require less.)

 

[amnesiac]

As far as day to day apps go, I'd say that my 1ghz powerbook is about as responsive as a midrange (1.4ghz+) PC desktop. Apples to..uhhh....oranges I guess.

Now, when I run WindowsXP in VirtualPC it was kind of sluggish until I tweaked the performance and gave it more RAM.. it runs XP at the speed of a sluggish PIII lappy.