[muglo] Re: laptop
- From: Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:40:05 -0400
On 23-Aug-05, at 8:54 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> The best Mac? One which upgrades itself, never requires trouble
> shooting and stays current in perpituity.
>
> But, a good Mac. It depends!
>
> Are you used to the consumer <ahem crapsumer> Macs like the iMac or
> eMac? If so, then you may find yourself to be quite happy with the
> iBook series. They're fairly fast (vs. what you'll be used to) and
> quite functional but are definitely competing with the low-end
> offerings from Dell and IBM.
If you cast your mind back to previous posts he is using a G4 G/W,
basically for emails & word processing!
>
> Major drawbacks to the iBooks:
>
> 1. SMALL screens, and, I'm talking SMALL! They're running screen sizes
> which were standard 6 or 7 years ago (1024*768), and they offer little
> extra in return for the small screens (something like the Sony Viao at
> least is *tiny*).
12" & 15" is hardly small!
> 2. No video out (yeah, some of them can do video mirroring but no
> monitor spanning).
All of them do video out, icl. to TVs!
> 3. Pretty gaudy looking beasts with less than perfect construction
> (Idon't like the cheap white look of the iMac/iBook).
I'd hardly call white "Gaudy".
>
> Major benefit to the iBooks:
> Cheap (and, it's also a drawback)
>
> Only drawback to the PowerBook:
> Costs more MHz-MHz vs. the iBook
>
> Major benefits to the PowerBooks:
> 1. Fast (vs. iBook).
Very similar in speeds.
> 2. Decent sized screens.
Same sizes.
> 3. Good optical drives.
As do some models of iBooks.
> 4. Good video out.
Ditto
> 5. Look great.
>
> Eric.
> TTFN,
TeeC
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