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IBM X22 or Apple iBook for school?

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Winchester

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I am starting grad school, again, on Monday. I have a limited budget for a laptop ~500 and want something light and handles travelling very well. 2 Hr commute each way. I will most likely just use it for papers and net. I would also like the one with the best "resale" value. If you have something to suggest besides these two feel free to offer your opinion.

Here are some basic specs for both, same price:

IBM X22

Pentium III 800mhz
384MB ram
20GB HD
CDRW/DVD
Media Slice (docking)
Windows XP
Wireless Card

Apple Ibook

G3 500mhz
384MB ram
10GB HD
CDRW/DVD
OSX
Wireless Card
 
Without a Quartz extreme enabled graphics card, any Apple product will get bogged down with the GUI. I believe the lowest ibook model with enough of a vid card is the ibook g3 800mhz. Get the X22.
 
snipperruff, a celeron-M is better than a regular P4? Any benchmarks to prove that? or are you saying that a 1.4ghz Celeron-M > 1.4Ghz P4?
 
Originally posted by: Winchester
snipperruff, a celeron-M is better than a regular P4? Any benchmarks to prove that? or are you saying that a 1.4ghz Celeron-M > 1.4Ghz P4?
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a 1.4 celeron-m is about as fast as a 1.9 or 1.8ghz p4
 
Where are you getting the X22 from ? (Looking for another IBM laptop for a friend). And to all the IBM haters ... you're wrong (imho). I've had two laptops for the last year ... my (work-provided) Dell 620p and my IBM T23. My IBM T23 is a P3 1.3 ghz with 768 MB of ram ... my Dell is probably better equipped ... but I hate it. It's big ... feels plasticky and is slower than my IBM (in both linux and windows). My IBM has travelled daily with me ... and has practically eliminated my need (but not my desire) for a personal desktop. Everyone in my family has a laptop (Sony Vaios, Dells and Compaqs) but they all acknowledge that my laptop (which was the cheapest) is clearly the best. Do yourself a favor .... search back to HotDeals about 1.5 years ago to a deal re: a T23. Someone mentioned this story which sealed the deal for me. His gf and broke up with him and he got really drunk. Stumbled home and saw something on his IBM laptop that reminded him of her. He throws the running laptop against the wall as hard as he could then passes out. The next morning he gets up .... realizes what he did and rushes to his laptop. Which is still running. Perfectly. Nuff Said.
 
X22, b/c I have an X31 and the new 1.2 ibook, i love the ibook and OS/X but there are some things that I still need wintel for
 
Originally posted by: Winchester
I am starting grad school, again, on Monday. I have a limited budget for a laptop ~500 and want something light and handles travelling very well. 2 Hr commute each way. I will most likely just use it for papers and net. I would also like the one with the best "resale" value. If you have something to suggest besides these two feel free to offer your opinion.

Here are some basic specs for both, same price:

IBM X22

Pentium III 800mhz
384MB ram
20GB HD
CDRW/DVD
Media Slice (docking)
Windows XP
Wireless Card

Apple Ibook

G3 500mhz
384MB ram
10GB HD
CDRW/DVD
OSX
Wireless Card
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i just got an 800mhz ibook for 350 off ebay (good deal i found). I say go for the apple, they keep their value lot more than x86 machines. Just find the 2nd generation of ibooks with 16mb video and your're fine. The ibm will depreciate about at least 10% in one semester's time, where as apple ibooks from 2001 still go for over 450 on ebay


All these people will tell you to buy anything x86 over ibook and the same time they have 0 experience with it. If you need your laptop for email/web/word mabe some coding and stuff like that, go for the apple. Mine is fast enough with 256mb ram (havent bogged down on my yet) and I'm happy. Plus you dont have to deal with windows
 
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