<strong>That makes no sense. The iBook's base price is $100 cheaper than the base price of an eMac... Am I missing something.</strong><hr></blockquote>Yep. The refurbished eMacs in question can be had for 700 dollars. It is nearly twice the speed of comparable iBooks, and comes with a larger screen, larger hard drive, a mouse, a full keyboard, cheaper memory upgrades, and cheaper hard-drive upgrades.
Don't get me wrong, laptops are nice. However, you still pay a premium for the lcd and miniturized hardware.
Also, keep in mind that she might be interested in using iMovie and iDVD. While she's had a firewire camera for a while, she's never used it in conjunction with a computer. For inexperienced users on windows, the process is nearly impossible. I can't honestly recommend anyone buy a G3 machine with the intention of doing video editing. Plus, dirt cheap internal superdrives can not be installed in laptops and she can't pay the firewire premium for a burner.
The suggested purchase of an eMac was well thought out... This thread was an attempt to solicate eMac anecdotes which would push her over the switcher edge...
Well, I just unpacked one of those refurbished eMacs for a client today..... popped in a 512 MB DIMM, transferred all her data from her G3 iMac with FireWire target disk mode in a couple minutes,and the result was pure beauty !
Wonderful screen, nice speakers, and FAST AS HELL running OS X...
I don't NEED one, but it was soooo nice, especially for the price, that I find myself WANTING one!
I agree with stunned, if you have an Apple store close by, or even if you have to take a nice road trip, the benifits of actually touching a new machine will help sell her ... but as it sounds, she is an educated woman, so ANY type of Apple you look at along with OSX ... will sell itself.
<strong>Yep. The refurbished eMacs in question can be had for 700 dollars. It is nearly twice the speed of comparable iBooks, and comes with a larger screen, larger hard drive, a mouse, a full keyboard, cheaper memory upgrades, and cheaper hard-drive upgrades.
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How do you figure that it's nearly twice the speed?
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<strong>That makes no sense. The iBook's base price is $100 cheaper than the base price of an eMac...
Don't get me wrong, laptops are nice. However, you still pay a premium for the lcd and miniturized hardware.
Also, keep in mind that she might be interested in using iMovie and iDVD. While she's had a firewire camera for a while, she's never used it in conjunction with a computer. For inexperienced users on windows, the process is nearly impossible. I can't honestly recommend anyone buy a G3 machine with the intention of doing video editing. Plus, dirt cheap internal superdrives can not be installed in laptops and she can't pay the firewire premium for a burner.
The suggested purchase of an eMac was well thought out... This thread was an attempt to solicate eMac anecdotes which would push her over the switcher edge...
<img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
[ 02-03-2003: Message edited by: dfiler ]</p>
you get her to stand outside the building about five feet away from you, i'll take the emac to the roof and BLAMMO!
we'll get 'er.
Wonderful screen, nice speakers, and FAST AS HELL running OS X...
I don't NEED one, but it was soooo nice, especially for the price, that I find myself WANTING one!
[ 02-04-2003: Message edited by: Alpha Mac ]</p>
<strong>Yep. The refurbished eMacs in question can be had for 700 dollars. It is nearly twice the speed of comparable iBooks, and comes with a larger screen, larger hard drive, a mouse, a full keyboard, cheaper memory upgrades, and cheaper hard-drive upgrades.
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How do you figure that it's nearly twice the speed?
<strong>Dont forget the Edu discount.
[ 02-04-2003: Message edited by: Alpha Mac ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yep, a whole whopping $20 on the combo-drive model! <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
Thank goodness that $929 model exists for edu, even though it's without a modem.