Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Feb 2003 19:02 UTC
My CTX AMD K6-300/128 MB RAM/3 GB drive laptop is obviously at the end of its life. I was in the "shopping" process for a laptop for 2 months now, and I considered a number of PC laptops, including the Compaq Presario 1525US. At the end, I decided to get the new 12" Powerbook, came in last week, and I am since then using it as my primary machine. Here is what I think about it.
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My girlfriend just got one of the 800MHz 12" iBooks about 3 weeks ago and the screen is ok... it's not the greatest, but I'm used to the Powerbook screen, which is much higher quality.
However, it doesn't seem anywhere near as bad as what Eugenia is describing. As others have said, perhaps she has much more picky eyes than I do. I also use a Dell 1800FP 18.1" LCD screen at work that I hook up to my Powerbook and it's almost as high quality as the Powerbook screen, so in comparison the 12" screen is nowhere near as good, but for basic usage, it's just fine. My girlfriend is very happy with it.
As for the speed of the 800MHz G3, it's just fine. For mosthing things, it's more than quick enough (such as web surfing, word processing, DVDs, etc.). The only things I could see as being a problem would be 3D games (though Warcraft III is basically playable on it and that's a very CPU intensive game when you play with a lot of computer units), video editing, advanced photo editing, etc... which most people wouldn't be doing on a portable machine anyway. Of course the iBook isn't what I would call a desktop replacement, my 1GHz TiBook is only barely a desktop replacement.