I own a 20" 2GHz, 2 GB, 250GB G5 iMac currently, which fits all my needs perfectly. It's my first Mac, and I ador the thing. Only issue is that it has limited portability, in that when I travel(which is frequent, I'm a collegiate athlete, and we spent alot of time traveling to compete and I occasionaly make trips home on weekends).
When going home for more than a few days, I take the computer with me, but when I am leaving on Saturday morning and returning Sunday night it is too much of a pain to pack it up and bring it with me. So I basically need a lap top for the road to work on writing papers and to take home with me(and occasionally to class, as my university relies fairly heavily on the internet and wireless internet is all over campus. Lectures, notes, readings and bascially every vital information on our classes is posted to the internet, so it's useful to be able to pull up in class).
don't need anything fancy, my iMac has all the bells and whistles, so this thing doesn't need them. And since I'd be buying it(my parents bought me the iMac, so they aren't going to pitch in to buy me yet another computer, no matter how cheap) I'd like to be relatively, if not really, inexpensive. Something very small and portable, of course. Any recommendations? Being new to Macs I have no idea about the past models of computers that Apple as put out, and I certainly don't want to shell out $1000 for a brand new Macbook, when all I want to do is type. Lol.
Any help is really appreciated about what model, where to buy, and what kind of price range I'll be looking at. I won't be buying until this upcoming summer, most likely, but I'd like to start figuring my budget now.
Thanks!
When going home for more than a few days, I take the computer with me, but when I am leaving on Saturday morning and returning Sunday night it is too much of a pain to pack it up and bring it with me. So I basically need a lap top for the road to work on writing papers and to take home with me(and occasionally to class, as my university relies fairly heavily on the internet and wireless internet is all over campus. Lectures, notes, readings and bascially every vital information on our classes is posted to the internet, so it's useful to be able to pull up in class).
don't need anything fancy, my iMac has all the bells and whistles, so this thing doesn't need them. And since I'd be buying it(my parents bought me the iMac, so they aren't going to pitch in to buy me yet another computer, no matter how cheap) I'd like to be relatively, if not really, inexpensive. Something very small and portable, of course. Any recommendations? Being new to Macs I have no idea about the past models of computers that Apple as put out, and I certainly don't want to shell out $1000 for a brand new Macbook, when all I want to do is type. Lol.
Any help is really appreciated about what model, where to buy, and what kind of price range I'll be looking at. I won't be buying until this upcoming summer, most likely, but I'd like to start figuring my budget now.
Thanks!
