[P1] Ibook questions

Wiebe Wilbers wiebe at insysco.net.au
Mon Sep 1 19:53:00 PDT 2003


On 2/9/03 12:14 PM, "Gary Adams" <gdadams1 at cox.net> wrote:

> My clamshell 466 works fine for me in osx.
> 
> Gary
> On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 06:55  PM, Chris Beaumont wrote:
> 
>> If you get a used one, try to get it really cheap.. the clamshell
>> ibooks are really too slow to run osx well.. OTOH you can sometimes
>> find deals on fairly new (dual USB - modern design) ibooks.. If you go
>> to dealmac.com and search for ibook, you can often find deals on new
>> ibooks, but slightly older models.. They have a 1 year guarantee, but
>> thats not enough.. I had a display problem come up recently on mine
>> that would have cost hundreds to fix if I had to..but I still love
>> it.. just be prepared .. laptops are fragile..


Your clamshell is also the fastest one they made... Close to the speed of my
500Mhz Dual USB, which runs X.2.6 pretty darn fine as well :-) (No worse
than a flat panel iMac anyway)



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