Nobody here wants to offend you, but as you stated in two threads that the G4 was still a viable alternative, people will always tell you that you're wrong here. As Windows people would when you say the Pentium-M is still state-of-the-art technology. Which it isn't.
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The Pentium-M might not be state of the art but it still performs very well I run Xandros and XP on one and I have no issues I can run everything. You don't have to agree with the gentleman but he is right lets treat new people with a little respect.
How about that they are 4 times faster (system bus is 667MHz vs 133MHz in the G4 and the CPU is dual 1.83GHz minimum vs single 1.5GHz), they have magnetic power cords and latches and you can right-click using the trackpad.
The reason for the switch was because the G4s are very old chips and were long overdue an update but IBM couldn't deliver cool enough chips to put into a laptop with processing performance on the level of a G5. Intel could.
Now, if you are comfortable with the G4 i.e don't need the much faster performance and it was significantly cheaper than the Macbook, I can see why you might go for it. Powerbooks are cheaper than Macbooks too though and are much more stylish IMO.
It might also have something with Intel having actually development money and better quality software due to intel optimizations. With the exception of what came out of Apple and the really high end apps, PPC Mac software were mainly ports that were done on the cheap.
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Nobody here wants to offend you, but as you stated in two threads that the G4 was still a viable alternative, people will always tell you that you're wrong here. As Windows people would when you say the Pentium-M is still state-of-the-art technology. Which it isn't.
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The Pentium-M might not be state of the art but it still performs very well I run Xandros and XP on one and I have no issues I can run everything. You don't have to agree with the gentleman but he is right lets treat new people with a little respect.
How about that they are 4 times faster (system bus is 667MHz vs 133MHz in the G4 and the CPU is dual 1.83GHz minimum vs single 1.5GHz), they have magnetic power cords and latches and you can right-click using the trackpad.
The reason for the switch was because the G4s are very old chips and were long overdue an update but IBM couldn't deliver cool enough chips to put into a laptop with processing performance on the level of a G5. Intel could.
Now, if you are comfortable with the G4 i.e don't need the much faster performance and it was significantly cheaper than the Macbook, I can see why you might go for it. Powerbooks are cheaper than Macbooks too though and are much more stylish IMO.
It might also have something with Intel having actually development money and better quality software due to intel optimizations. With the exception of what came out of Apple and the really high end apps, PPC Mac software were mainly ports that were done on the cheap.