You can upgrade the ram and hard drive in a tibook much easier. You'll find the HD get full really fast if you rip mp3's at a decent quality. For the iBook, you've got to send it away, void the warranty and wait to get it back. The tibook has instructions right in the manual. RAM is limited on the ibook, too 640 max. The tibook can take upto 1gig. It might not make a big difference now, but it might in the future.
Facing virtually the same decision (ah, I wish for college, but for grad school and teaching) I got the 14.1" 700 iBook, Airport, and basestation with 384 ram when they came out in May, and think I made the right choice, especially as the wireless options I could not have afforded had I gone with the Ti. Tough as nails, fine with 10.1.5 (10.2 in the mail on Wednesday) great display, though surely not AS great as the Ti, slow with VPC but bearable, even with staff development demos for windoze apps. I don't have time for games, and that would likely be a problem for the G3, but for what I need (and the wireless I didn't think I needed but wanted and could never again do without!) the iBook was the right choice. To do again, I would max the ram. That's it, the iBook with wireless is great fun and productivity in one.
<strong>You can upgrade the ram and hard drive in a tibook much easier. You'll find the HD get full really fast if you rip mp3's at a decent quality. </strong><hr></blockquote>
You can easily buy an External Firewire HD to fix that problem I have over 20 gig left on my ibook hd I keep all mp3z, movies, and backup stuff on my external firewire hd. I still have 50+ gigs free on that drive.
I personally am running an ibook now with 10.1.5 and compared to my g4/857, it is absolutely horrible. Now granted the speed difference, I'm just saying that the ibook 'lags' seriously... even compared to my friend's TiBook 667, which runs it very smoothly...
But if you dont need a g4 for power, at least get the ibook with the 12" screen and buy a larger external one. The 14" one as previously stated has no real advantage over the 12 other than everything is bigger. The resolution is the same on both, and I think with the 14, the crispness of the 12 is lost.
<strong>I personally am running an ibook now with 10.1.5 and compared to my g4/857, it is absolutely horrible. Now granted the speed difference, I'm just saying that the ibook 'lags' seriously... even compared to my friend's TiBook 667, which runs it very smoothly...
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Are you referring to the late 2001-early 2002 iBook revisions, or the original iBook revs? The original iBooks, with a 66 Mhz bus and somewhat substandard graphics performance, I agree were a bit of a disappointment. For me at least, the iBooks really started to shine when they got the 100 Mhz bus and the Radeon Mobility graphics chip.
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<strong>-"Video Graphics: Integrated Intel 3D AGP graphics card with up to 32MB shared system memory."
Whoohoo! An intel integrated graphics chip!
...with 32 MB of VRAM that's actually *shared*system memory. What a joke... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>You can upgrade the ram and hard drive in a tibook much easier. You'll find the HD get full really fast if you rip mp3's at a decent quality. </strong><hr></blockquote>
You can easily buy an External Firewire HD to fix that problem I have over 20 gig left on my ibook hd I keep all mp3z, movies, and backup stuff on my external firewire hd. I still have 50+ gigs free on that drive.
But if you dont need a g4 for power, at least get the ibook with the 12" screen and buy a larger external one. The 14" one as previously stated has no real advantage over the 12 other than everything is bigger. The resolution is the same on both, and I think with the 14, the crispness of the 12 is lost.
<strong>I personally am running an ibook now with 10.1.5 and compared to my g4/857, it is absolutely horrible. Now granted the speed difference, I'm just saying that the ibook 'lags' seriously... even compared to my friend's TiBook 667, which runs it very smoothly...
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Are you referring to the late 2001-early 2002 iBook revisions, or the original iBook revs? The original iBooks, with a 66 Mhz bus and somewhat substandard graphics performance, I agree were a bit of a disappointment. For me at least, the iBooks really started to shine when they got the 100 Mhz bus and the Radeon Mobility graphics chip.