>It's barely bigger than the 2400, no more than a quibble's worth >when you get down to it. It's notably thinner, too, which is a big >deal in a backpack. I sincerely doubt you'd think twice about taking >along one of these devices but not the other - they're physically >six of one, half dozen of the other. This size is close, but what I really want is smaller than a 2400! >I'm also dead sick of SCSI termination and the 2400's flakey SCSI >port, so let's not even go near comparing the utility of onboard >SCSI vs. Firewire and USB. ;) Flakey SCSI? I have no troubble hooking up an external hard drive when i need to, or attaching to a Kodak 7700 to do a dye-sub print. I have one FireWire device (Sony DVMC-DA2) and one USB device (iMate ABD adaptor) connected to my G4. FireWire isn't the SCSI killer that it has been so hyped to be and USB is just a pain. >Er, the screen is too big now? Yep. Too big and low DPI. I've seen the Sony Vaio's 10.5 inch 1024x768 screen, and it is wonderfully sharp and give you so much 'space' I had no troubble reading it. And I can get used to any screen DPI when I put together documents (that's what thoes rulers on the side of PhotoShop, Illustrator and Quark are for, right?) >The 2400's keyboard is a pain. I'm considerably more dexterous than >most people I meet, and even after using it for years I still >average more typos than I ever did on the Duo keyboard, or a >fullsize. Your experience may well be different, but for most people >the 2400's keyboard would be a real drawback, and the iBook's won't >be. For people that want small, including me, would use a smaller keyboard and get used to it. Ever seen someone with a Sony PictureBook or a Toshiba Libretto typing? They sure arn't touch typing, but can they move fast once tehy get used to the keyboard. >>But the footprint .... >>iBook 2001's footprint is is 101.92 square inches >>2400's footprint is 84 square inches > >This is rather misleading. It's *less than an inch* bigger in either >direction (who cares about square inches?). It's simply not going to >make a difference in any sort of real use. Oh yes it will. My desk at work is cramped, so is my desk at home, and having room on on lecture hall desk for a book and my 2400 camed down to just that, square inches. >I hate the 2400's power adaptor - the cord has nothing to hold it in >place when it's travelling. I really liked the Duo adaptor with it's >wind-up legs, and I don't mind the iBook adaptor. They're all >interchangeable anyway, so go wild. That iBook Yo-Yo poweradaptor is hure and near impossible to pack away in my bag without loosing space. to keep the coard in place, try some velcro straps, Much better and more flexable than the iBook's wrap around design and the little legs that would always break off the Duo's power adaptor. I can also bundle up my APS in-line surge supression with the power adaptor as well. >Basically, if you like the 2400 then that's great and you should >continue to use it. But these arguments are specious and the >comparisons misleading; it seems you're trying to rationalise your >G3 card purchase at the expense of reasoned discourse. I decided to get the G3 upgrade after looking at the rumor sites and all of them saying the iBook 2001 was not what I wanted. All the rumor sites were saying 12.1 or 13.1 inch screens, and I knew Apple coudn't make a sub-notebook arround that size. I'm glad I didn't wait for Apple on this one, I've been screwed before playing that game. I had an oppertunity to get a G3-400mHz upgrade for a song right before MacWorld-Tokyo, when all the buzz was about the new subnotebook Apple would unveil, and then didn't. > This *is* the subnotebook replacement people on this list have all >been crying for. This will fit into most people need for a notebook, but there are still people that want smaller and more features. Take the the iBook 2001, make the optical drive external, give it a big (30 or 48gig) hard drive, a type II PCMCIA card slot, the ability to have a gig of RAM, make it out of Titanium and shave a quarter inch off of all the dimentions, and I'd drop $6,000 right now for one. >Frankly I'm just glad there's *finally* a decent, reasonably-priced >notebook out there to move to when this one dies for good. Your're right about that. 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