need serious iBook advice please.
I can get a 500 MHz iBook for a very resonable price, and think of using it at work. I need to have the following programs open at the same time: OS X 10.2, Office, Acrobat, Mozilla, CelView 3, Lotus Notes, VPC NT4 workstation running a windows only administration program.
What I'd like to know is, if I put enough ram in it, will it still run at a decent enough speed?? I'm particularly interested in VPC's performance.
I can't afford a Titanium, and my only other option is to give up the Mac and make do with an IBM ThinkPad. Everyone at my company gets these, but I don't want 'm for obvious reasons.
Thanks!
What I'd like to know is, if I put enough ram in it, will it still run at a decent enough speed?? I'm particularly interested in VPC's performance.
I can't afford a Titanium, and my only other option is to give up the Mac and make do with an IBM ThinkPad. Everyone at my company gets these, but I don't want 'm for obvious reasons.
Thanks!
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Any native mac programs will run great given plenty of RAM (I happen to be using X.2 now, but X.1 was good also)
Unfortunately, VPC is very slow... so much so that I bought an eMachine for the 2 windows progs I must use at home. I doubt that your the slightly faster bus speed on the 500 iBook would be enough to make VPC respectable, but otherwise I can't blame you for trying to talk yourself into the mac !!!
The main advantage of the iBook 500 over the iBook 466 is the much smaller, lighter form factor, higher resolution screen, and stereo speakers instead of just one. The speed should be about the same.
But back to the topic at hand - I agree with Matsu. If your company offers you an IBM Thinkpad for free, why not use it? It's obviously the kind that they would prefer you to use, but I do sympathise.