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laptop and desktop

  • desktop only

    Votes: 3 7.9%
  • laptop only

    Votes: 12 31.6%
  • both

    Votes: 12 31.6%
  • both intel

    Votes: 9 23.7%
  • both power pc

    Votes: 2 5.3%

  • Total voters
    38

xPismo

macrumors 6502a
Nov 21, 2005
675
0
California.
Powerbook for me.

i'd have a desktop editor too if I had the bread. I may pull the trigger on a used G5/2.0dp once The Steve drops the big news at WWDC.

G5's for pennies I tell you! Free for the picking...
 

tim2006

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Jan 18, 2006
269
0
with the desktop replacement notebook is the desktop dead for non pros?
 

celebrian23

macrumors 65816
Mar 12, 2006
1,186
0
Under the sun
I myself only have a laptop, but there is a dell desktop which is a family computer. So I voted just laptop as I'll be going to college soon and will leave the dell behind :p
 

benthewraith

macrumors 68040
May 27, 2006
3,140
143
Fort Lauderdale, FL
tim2006 said:
with the desktop replacement notebook is the desktop dead for non pros?

Not really. The ability to take around your work is rather nice. And those big 15", 17" inch screens are good enough that anyone doing work in stuff like Aperture and Final Cut Pro. Besides, they can just plug it into a nice big 30" HD Apple Cinema Display if they so choose to.

BTW, I saw Powerbooks on the set of Stargate. :D:D:D

For those that need more than 2 Gb of RAM, well, I heard rumors that the Macbook Pro can take two 2 GB sticks of RAM, though this is heavily debated.
 

xfiftyfour

macrumors 68030
Apr 14, 2006
2,573
0
Clemson, SC
i have a MB and an old PowerMac G4 (that's been upgraded, though). i don't use the desktop too much.. need a better monitor first - old CRT's give me headaches :( :p
 

benthewraith

macrumors 68040
May 27, 2006
3,140
143
Fort Lauderdale, FL
xfiftyfour said:
i have a MB and an old PowerMac G4 (that's been upgraded, though). i don't use the desktop too much.. need a better monitor first - old CRT's give me headaches :( :p

I don't use computers with carbon ray tubes.

On another note, I found out that with using laptops instead of CRTs, my vision has actually gotten better. :D
 

zap2

macrumors 604
Mar 8, 2005
7,252
8
Washington D.C
I have both, but your poll has major flaws, people can only vote once and you have 2 different option Laptop vs Desktop and Intel vs PPC.
 

ricgnzlzcr

macrumors 6502a
Jun 7, 2005
802
0
I have a powerbook and am about to get an old powermac g4. Let's hope I'll use the powermac
 

mark!

macrumors 65816
Feb 4, 2006
1,370
1
America
I have an iMac G3 & a MacBook Pro. (atleast these are the ones in my room, or my main computer).

I want to get a PowerMac G4, iMac G4, & an iBook.
 

munkees

macrumors 65816
Sep 3, 2005
1,027
1
Pacific Northwest
i have currently

-iMac CD 2.0 Ghz 20" 2 GB RAM 250 GB HD and 128 graphics Mac OS X 10.4.7 Main Developement Machine
-MBP CD 2.0 Ghz 15.4 1 GB RAM 80 GB HD and 128 graphics Mac OS X 10.4.7 Mobile Development Machine has 17" external
-PowerMac G4 400Mhz 704 MB RAM 80 GB HD 128 GB HD (really 200 GB, large block address not avaliable in the model). Mac OS X 10.4.7 Server unlimited Main Server 18"CRT Project storage.

Green House Hydroponics project
-iMac G3 350 Mhz 320 MB Ram 8 GB HD and 8MB graphics Mac OS X 10.2.8 Front end to digital Microscope
-iMac G3 333 Mhz 512 MB Ram 6 GB HD and 6MB graphics Mac OS X 10.2.8 Front end to USB controller board (in development) for tempature control of room this system will read temp and either cool or heat room.
-iBook G3 300 Mhz 192 MB Ram 6 GB HD and 6MB grpahics Mac OS X 10.2.8 Front End to USB controller Board (in development) to switch on water mist for plants, message CO, and O2 levels

other projects to be developed is small remote control robot to cultivate plants, so I can have a completely computer controlled plant development environment. (off course will be Mac controlled).

my wife has a
-MacBook CD 1.83 13" 1 GB RAM 60 GB HD and 64 integrated graphics Mac OS X 10.4.7

My mother has
-iBook G3 700 Mhz 640MB RAM 30 GB HD with 16 MB graphics Mac OS X 10.4.6

my brother has
-iBook G4 1.33 Ghz 512MB RAM 40 GB HD with 64 MB graphics Mac OS X 10.4.x

My inlaws have
-eMac G4 1.25 Ghz 512MB RAM 60 GB HD with 32 MB Graphics Mac OS X 10.4.7

my borther-in-law
-PowerBook G4 1.5 Ghz 12" 80GB HD with 64 GB graphics Mac OS X 10.4.7

I administer all of these some remotely using Apple Remote Desktop 3.0

I have own and sold

-iBook G3 500 with 512 MB RAM 10GB HD 16 MB graphics Mac OS X 10.1.x
-G4 Cube 450 Mgz with 768 MB RAM 20 GB HD 32 MB graphics Mac OS X 10.1.x
-PowerMac 733 Mhz with 1MB cache, 768 MB RAM 60 GB HD 32 graphics MacOS X 10.1.x

will purchase 64bit intel Mac Pro quad core 4 GB RAM with 30" ACD, 500GB HD 512 graphics latter this year
 

Topono

macrumors member
Jun 12, 2006
64
0
After hearing about Apple's.... "quality" notebooks, I decided to get a desktop. I don't travel much, and I like the extra power a desktop provides.
 

bbrosemer

macrumors 6502a
Jan 28, 2006
639
3
I have Dual Processor Xeon 2.8 Ghz Dell Precision 530
2.16 MBP 17''
500 Mhz Dell Latitude
Quadra 610 25 Mhz (when I want a trip back to the past)
 
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