From: "Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Michael Nordmeyer wrote: > > > > Apple introduced a new iBook with 14.1" display yesterday. Check it > > out, it's on the apple site. But it's $1799 with 700Mhz and DVD/CDRW > > combo. Still quite inexpensive compared with Wintel consumer laptops. > > Apple hardware is solidly built. > > This system looks really great! and is a great vallue for money. But it > is out of reach of my pocket..:-( My maximum limit is $1200.
My Dell Inspiron 2500 was a little over US$1000 with taxes for an 800MHz processor (I don't know iBooks, but I presume that's a 64bit cpu, so admittedly not a comparable processor) with 14.1" display. I didn't get the DVD, but it's kind of hard to see how that makes the iBook "inexpensive". It works great - it took some time before I managed to find an off-the-shelf kernel that worked, but it's running Woody with kernel-image-2.4.16-586. I still haven't figured out sound though, but that's mostly because I couldn't much care about it, derek
