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Apple Updates iBook Line With G4 Processor

Posted by timothy on from the curse-you-apple dept.

Kyro writes "Apple today upgraded their iBook notebook range across the board to G4 processors, Airport Extreme, bluetooth, USB 2.0, and slot-loading combo drives. All models ship with Mac OS X 10.3, and the 12" model gets a 800Mhz G4 while the 14" models get a choice of 933Mhz or 1Ghz. Prices largely remain the same as the old G3 versions." Mwongozi adds "Although not announced on the front page, the Apple Store was updated just a few minutes ago to show the new iBook."

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  1. I was looking at some laptops today by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 0, Troll

    I went laptop shopping to see what kinds of options were available for Mrs. Claus's sister in Germany.

    I was absolutely blown away by the iBook. Not in a good way though. In the current line of iBooks, though stylish and finally Unix-based, the laptops are large and fairly oversized when compared to comparable laptop systems. The Toshiba, Sharp, and Panasonic models are much smaller, offer more power, and frankly look better than the somewhat dated iBook models.

    However, if the G4 will be installed, perhaps all that size will pay off.

    1. Re:I was looking at some laptops today by Broken+Bottle · · Score: 0, Troll

      Yeah, but it's over a grand for a 12.1" screen. Who in their right mind would buy something like that when it's sitting on the shelves at Best Buy next to a lot of laptops by HP, Sony, and Toshiba that are snappy dressers too, along with a LOT more Mhz, MBs, and GBs for the same amount of money. Gee, they're cool, but a terrible value...

      Chris

  2. G4? Bah. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you G4 fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a G4 (PowerBook G4/1Ghz) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my iBook G3 running MacOS 9.2, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this G4, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Limewire will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Camino is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various G4s, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a G4 that has run faster than its G3 counterpart, despite the G4's faster chip architecture. My B&W G3/300 with 8 megs of RAM runs faster than this 1 Ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the G4 is a superior machine.

    G4 addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a G4 over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.