new computer...
I'm starting university in a month, and I am planning on buying a new lap top. (as you might have read, my ibook is broken)
I have been doing a lot of research on the Tibooks. Has anyone used G4 powerbook?; What are your opinions?
I will get the 800mhz with 60GB HD and 1 gig sdram if possible.
In most of the reviews, there is little negative feedback, except heat and scratchable paint problems.
Thanks for any feedback
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I have been doing a lot of research on the Tibooks. Has anyone used G4 powerbook?; What are your opinions?
I will get the 800mhz with 60GB HD and 1 gig sdram if possible.
In most of the reviews, there is little negative feedback, except heat and scratchable paint problems.
Thanks for any feedback

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<strong>I'm starting university in a month, and I am planning on buying a new lap top. (as you might have read, my ibook is broken)
I have been doing a lot of research on the Tibooks. Has anyone used G4 powerbook?; What are your opinions?
I will get the 800mhz with 60GB HD and 1 gig sdram if possible.
In most of the reviews, there is little negative feedback, except heat and scratchable paint problems.
Thanks for any feedback
[ 08-25-2002: Message edited by: Buff ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
OK!
First of all I recoomend you checking out a very simiilar post that is all about powerbooks/iBooks vs desktop at uni and i think there is another post on powerbook/iBook vs a Dell..
Anyhow I am at university and am Using a Powerbook Ti 800Mhz with 512Mb ram 40Gb etc and it rocks! It is just perfect for me, the battery lasts a good time, the screen is perfect and frankly it can handle being bumped around (a bit) (Others will strongly disagree on that one)
With Jaguar installed it goes quicker than ever!!! I cant be bothered saying much more other than that the Powerbook truely rocks!
:cool:
Do you have a link to the old posts?
I'm not familiar with Jaguar, what is it? and where can I read about it?
I've heard, though, that the 800MHz isn't really a whole lot faster than the 667MHz. I think there's probably as great or greater difference between the old and new 667s than there is between the new 667 and the new 800, because of the better graphics card and the L3 cache.
Also, just in case you don't already know (you probably do know), you probably don't want to buy your RAM at the Apple Store. Get it from Other World Computing or ramseeker.com or something, or even Crucial. They have much better deals than Apple.
The deal I am getting at the moment from a local authorised apple dealer gets me the 800 for about $3000, and the 667 is about $2000...
What do you think? I probably wont need that sort of speed, i am happy working on a G4 400, but it might be worth the extra specs in the next couple of years...