Okay so i'm a sort of newbie here since 2004 , and i started of my Mac Crusade with a lovely B/W G3 300 Mhz and then onto a iBook G3 800Mhz.
For what it's worth i loved my iBook G3 , did what ever i need it to do, i then went on to the Powerbook G4 1.33 15" and that made my eye's water at the time for the power it had.
All this time the Powermac G5 was there , but in my eye's out of my price range and i thought not that much faster then the G4 i was at.
from the 15" i went to an eMac as a 2nd machine then sold my 15" for a royal sum and then bought a iBook G4 1.2 Ghz the eMac soon follwed the Powerbook on ebay that brings us up to december 24th 2004 ( cos that's when i bought my iBook lol), new year ment new comitments for me like getting wed in April and a month away in May around USA and New Zealand.
I was all then willing and ready to take the iBook with me until the last minute the speakers went on the iBook and this made me think maybe it was not up for the bumping and grinding of aiports and bagadge handlers, so posting on the forums here see the iBook go to a new home and live out it's life with a new loving owner. For me however a new Machine was needed ..... so 2 days before the big day i made the decision to buy a 12" Powerbook G4 1.33Ghz with 768Mb.
The Powerbook 12" has been the best buy i ever bought - my iBook held a place in my heart for being there when i wanted it , but the power made up for all the performance hits on video ect..
so that brings me to my next buy.... Powermac G5 1.8 dual ( i know not current but cheap ) and all i can say is WOW - what have i been missing
the Powermac has been with me for 2 day's and i have done more the 1 weeks worth of encoding and editing with the Powerbook in the 2 day's i've had it.
So .......do what you have to , sell you grandma , sell your wife and even sell your left nut but get the Powermac - YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED
for the record i compute with :
1.8 dual G5
1gb Ram
9600 128 mb
160 GB hdd
12" 1.33 Ghz Powerbook
768 Mb ram
Tiger as standard
Peace people
oh YEAH
For what it's worth i loved my iBook G3 , did what ever i need it to do, i then went on to the Powerbook G4 1.33 15" and that made my eye's water at the time for the power it had.
All this time the Powermac G5 was there , but in my eye's out of my price range and i thought not that much faster then the G4 i was at.
from the 15" i went to an eMac as a 2nd machine then sold my 15" for a royal sum and then bought a iBook G4 1.2 Ghz the eMac soon follwed the Powerbook on ebay that brings us up to december 24th 2004 ( cos that's when i bought my iBook lol), new year ment new comitments for me like getting wed in April and a month away in May around USA and New Zealand.
I was all then willing and ready to take the iBook with me until the last minute the speakers went on the iBook and this made me think maybe it was not up for the bumping and grinding of aiports and bagadge handlers, so posting on the forums here see the iBook go to a new home and live out it's life with a new loving owner. For me however a new Machine was needed ..... so 2 days before the big day i made the decision to buy a 12" Powerbook G4 1.33Ghz with 768Mb.
The Powerbook 12" has been the best buy i ever bought - my iBook held a place in my heart for being there when i wanted it , but the power made up for all the performance hits on video ect..
so that brings me to my next buy.... Powermac G5 1.8 dual ( i know not current but cheap ) and all i can say is WOW - what have i been missing
the Powermac has been with me for 2 day's and i have done more the 1 weeks worth of encoding and editing with the Powerbook in the 2 day's i've had it.
So .......do what you have to , sell you grandma , sell your wife and even sell your left nut but get the Powermac - YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED
for the record i compute with :
1.8 dual G5
1gb Ram
9600 128 mb
160 GB hdd
12" 1.33 Ghz Powerbook
768 Mb ram
Tiger as standard
Peace people
oh YEAH
