[HM] Re: PowerBook vs iBook

[Jane Sprando]

Duane, I have been thinking about buying a used PowerBook or iBook. So you
think the PowerBook is the way to go because of the battery?

How old a computer should I look for?

jane

> From: "Duane Murphy" <duanemurphy at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "Home Macintosh Users List"<HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:28:19 -0700
> To: "Home Macintosh Users List" <HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [HM] Re: PowerBook vs iBook
> 
> --- At Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:54:56 -0800, Jane Sprando wrote:
> 
>> What's the difference between a PowerBook and an iBook??????
> 
> The advertisement says "Professional" and "Consumer". The iBook is made
> cheaper to keep the price down. From a technical point of view the
> differences I can recall are:
> 
> o PowerBook supports multiple monitors. That is the external monitor port
> is another monitor. On the iBook, only mirroring is supported.
> 
> o The PowerBook has PCMCIA slot. None on the iBook.
> 
> o You can change the battery without plugging in the PowerBook. That is
> you can remove the battery from a PowerBook while it is asleep just fine.
> The iBook will just crash.
> 
> o The hard drive in a PowerBook is much easier to upgrade.
> 
> o The memory in a PowerBook is probably easier to upgrade and can
> probably be higher. (There's a lot of probably's in there.)
> 
> I think they are about even on ports these days. And the processors are
> not that far apart. I think you can get CDRW/DVDRW in both.
> 
> They are not very far apart. But the battery situation appeals to me as I
> tend to run off of battery using multiple batteries.
> 
> ...Duane