[P1] When to replace iBook?

Jack Rodgers jackrodgers at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 6 03:40:15 PST 2004


On Feb 5, 2004, at 7:56 PM, David Linker wrote:

> Why a powerbook? For the base model, it would cost $500 more, or 
> almost 50% additional. Both have a G4, the iBook is 800 MHz vs 1GHz, 
> the HD is 30 vs 40 GB. Same RAM.

I bought and returned the latest iBook getting the al instead. The 
craftsmanship wasn't as good as the al and it was slower than the 
difference in cpu speed would suggest.

> For my current use, the iBook is fine, although I could use a little 
> additional HD space over the 20GB that it has.

I just made a suggestion to a question and would expect people to be 
just as happy with their iBook as I was with earlier model iBooks.

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