Powerbook G4 and ibook

[radiocore]

Well, I'm trying out an ibook right now from my local Compusa. it's a 14.2 inch model that was open box. Anyways...they let me take it home to test drive and if I like the feel of it, I can bring it in and upgrade to the powerbook and they'll waive the restock fee. The powerbook has a dvdburner that i wanted.

I normally rip/burn dvds through my PC at home and I use dvdshrink and nero.

Anyone know how I could do this using apple? I know nothing about apples, but I want to learn and it will give me something to do and learn once I'm deployed overseas next week.

Anyone apple users around that can help me out with tips/shortcuts/etc.? From the group up please

 

[IgoByte]

Why would you buy a 14" ibook? It's larger and heavier than the 12" unit and you get no benefits at all. Until Apple boosts the resolution on the 14" ibook it will remain enseless to buy one, IMHO.

I couldn't get used to apples myself...had two ibooks and one powerbook. Too annoying for me.

 

[Bateluer]

Dude, as easy as Apple makes their software, if you can't figure out how to burn a DVD without 100k member forum . . .

Seriously, go here and get a machine for a man.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Dude, as easy as Apple makes their software, if you can't figure out how to burn a DVD without 100k member forum . . .

Seriously, go here and get a machine for a man.

Um... Those laptops are almost twice as much as the price of laptops he is looking at.

Personally I like Apples. They are well built and have very long usefull lifespans. Plenty of people still use 300mhz apples today with no problems.

The only problem with the Ibook is the 800mhz CPU. This is about on par with a 1ghz athlon or a 1.1-1.3 ghz Intel, or a 1.3-1.6 ghz celeron. (IMO)

The one thing that realy makes it worth it for me is the vid card that comes with them. ATI 9200 mobile, which is much nicer then the the standard on-board Intel graphics that come on most low-priced laptops from dell or gateway and would more then make up for the lack of CPU cycles in terms of responsiveness.

The lowend(only) Powerbook comes with a Nvidia 5200 GO which is inferior to that what comes with the Ibook, but the Powerbook comes with a optional DVD burner. So it's a toss up if you care about that.

CD-R's are good enough for me, though. Personally I am saving up for the 14" model because the extra 133mhz, and that's about it. May still get the 800mhz 12" because it's smaller. Don't realy know.

I'd also be sure to max out the optional ram and get the airport wireless card. OS X realy appreciates more ram and means more then a slightly faster CPU.

Otherwise they run quiet(apple is VERY good at this since the mirror'd power G4 problems) and cool.

 

[radiocore]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Dude, as easy as Apple makes their software, if you can't figure out how to burn a DVD without 100k member forum . . .

Seriously, go here and get a machine for a man.

I was actually more talking about a program such as DvdShrink for the PC, but for the Apple. I just need something to rip and compress DVDs so I can burn them with my SuperDrive. =)

 

[addragyn]

http://www.dvd2one.com/index.php

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18599

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19456

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20778

 

[GL]

The one thing that realy makes it worth it for me is the vid card that comes with them. ATI 9200 mobile, which is much nicer then the the standard on-board Intel graphics that come on most low-priced laptops from dell or gateway and would more then make up for the lack of CPU cycles in terms of responsiveness.

The lowend(only) Powerbook comes with a Nvidia 5200 GO which is inferior to that what comes with the Ibook, but the Powerbook comes with a optional DVD burner. So it's a toss up if you care about that.

The ATI 9200 in the iBooks has a 64-bit memory interface compared to the 128-bit memory interface of the 5200 GO in the Powerbook. Consequently, the 9200s in the iBooks are not faster than the 5200 GOs in the Powerbooks. I was initially under the same impression as you until I looked at ATI's and Nvidia's specifications and realized this.

 

[bigbangtech]

Ordered a G4 iBook 12" 40GB/640MB and the ship date slipped a week the day it was supposed to ship. When it finally arrived, it had a "Water pooling" effect in the upper right of the screen.

I called Apple and one of the engineers was interested in "capturing" it for study. Got my new one and everything is rock solid although the new one has a stuck pixel in the bottom right... awesome.

All in all, it's a very speedy little notebook, gives my G4 400 Sawtooth with 1.25GB ram a run for it's money in PS.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: GL

The one thing that realy makes it worth it for me is the vid card that comes with them. ATI 9200 mobile, which is much nicer then the the standard on-board Intel graphics that come on most low-priced laptops from dell or gateway and would more then make up for the lack of CPU cycles in terms of responsiveness.

The lowend(only) Powerbook comes with a Nvidia 5200 GO which is inferior to that what comes with the Ibook, but the Powerbook comes with a optional DVD burner. So it's a toss up if you care about that.

The ATI 9200 in the iBooks has a 64-bit memory interface compared to the 128-bit memory interface of the 5200 GO in the Powerbook. Consequently, the 9200s in the iBooks are not faster than the 5200 GOs in the Powerbooks. I was initially under the same impression as you until I looked at ATI's and Nvidia's specifications and realized this.

9200>5200 regardless of memory interface