- Feb 20, 2002
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Alright, I know this forum is dominated by PC users, and I am one of you. However, on the search for a perfect laptop I have come across the Apple's Powerbook G4. Now, short of the old green screan apple's we used to have in school, I've never had the pleasure of trying anything apple. I was wondering if anyone could give me any oppinios of thses notebooks. I was specifically looking at the new G4 with the 17" screen.
I want something with power that will also be easy enough to carry. Now I know this notebook isn't small; however, it is only 1 inch thick and weighs under 7lbs with the batt and optical drive.
Here are the detailed specs if your interested (its the right most model) http://www.apple.com/powerbook/specs.html
Anyway processor is a 1ghz G4 1mb L3 cache
512mb of pc2700 DDR
17inch TFT 1440 x 900 native rez
DVD-R/CD-RW superdrive
GeForce 440 Go 64mb
60gig ATA100 hdd
All the wireless and internet connections I would ever need
All the ports (usb, firewire, etc...) that I would ever need
Also any mac comments in general would help. I'm not to worried about the "limited" amount of programs, as all the ones that I already use are made for mac also. I do a lot of photo editing and will probably get into digital video editing in the future. I play some games, but they aren't too big of a concern as I don't think I"m going to have a ton of time for them in college. The only downside I can see is the price; however, between my parents and I, I think that can be covered (as long as there is reason to go for the G4). What would the power of the mac processor be compared to something in the PC world, I know the differnet archetecture (sp?) allows them to perform more operations per cycle.
I want something with power that will also be easy enough to carry. Now I know this notebook isn't small; however, it is only 1 inch thick and weighs under 7lbs with the batt and optical drive.
Here are the detailed specs if your interested (its the right most model) http://www.apple.com/powerbook/specs.html
Anyway processor is a 1ghz G4 1mb L3 cache
512mb of pc2700 DDR
17inch TFT 1440 x 900 native rez
DVD-R/CD-RW superdrive
GeForce 440 Go 64mb
60gig ATA100 hdd
All the wireless and internet connections I would ever need
All the ports (usb, firewire, etc...) that I would ever need
Also any mac comments in general would help. I'm not to worried about the "limited" amount of programs, as all the ones that I already use are made for mac also. I do a lot of photo editing and will probably get into digital video editing in the future. I play some games, but they aren't too big of a concern as I don't think I"m going to have a ton of time for them in college. The only downside I can see is the price; however, between my parents and I, I think that can be covered (as long as there is reason to go for the G4). What would the power of the mac processor be compared to something in the PC world, I know the differnet archetecture (sp?) allows them to perform more operations per cycle.