You might want to consider the refurb units on the apple store website, fully repaired and tested with the same warranty (applecare also available) but at a considerable discount. Of course if you know someone who is an apple employee the get a discount. (LOL) --- Jack Rodgers <jackrodgers at earthlink.net> wrote: > > 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. > > --- ===== Brian Personal Email briang113 at yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html