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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:41:06PM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote: > Mr. O, > > If you are a developer, you should consider becoming an Apple Developer. > Look in Apple.com for developer support. > > They give a developer a 20% discount on the purchase of a new Mac system, > iPod optional; But highly recommended.
They may not have many (any?) left at this point since the announcement was made Tuesday night, however..
Digital Duck (UO bookstore) is selling Powerbooks at vastly insanely low prices right now, while their stock holds.
iPods available also?
These Apples are the juicy kind. The Powerbook 12 I will be bringing with me tomorrow is a G4 867 with 640 megs and a 60 gig HD. Oh, the bundle includes the superdrive (DVD-R in a sub-5lb notebook!) and Airport Extreme for 802.11g wireless goodness. Cost? $1649.
Built-in Bluetooth also!
Wednesday morning when I went in to buy it, they had 45 of them. Apparently half their stock went away just today.
Definitely, if you are a student and qualify for this discount; it is more attractive than the developer discount.
Since many of us are Linux fans, some warnings about Linux on the above mentioned badass system:
1. GeForce 420 Go is not supported well (at all?) by XFree yet and NV doesn't make even binary drivers for Linux PPC. 2. Airport Extreme has no linux driver support.
Don't personally know about Linux PPC specific issues. I downloaded the latest Yellow Dog distro (allegedly the most mature Linux PPC ) and soon will try to install it on my G4 Tower. My biggest concern about PPC Linux is the status of Firewire support; "not ready for prime time" would limit my use of Linux PPC vs. running native OS X. Lack of graphics support would be a major disappointment, but we all are comfortable at command line, right?
No Airport Extreme support, but probably have support for older 802.11 a or b?
Student pricing on an iBook 12 with combo drive (G3 900) with the same RAM and disk, which are maxed out of course, and an Airport card comes out to be within $100 of the Powerbook 12. Conclusion: If you want an OS X box, take some Lane class so you qualify as a student and get one while you can. Else, you probably can get a better deal on the slightly larger and heavier iBook without the DVD-R drive and find yourself much happier with the results overall. The difference between a G4 867 and G3 900 matters only to gamers and Photoshop people, really.
If possible, get the one with the DVD burner. You won't regret it.
UO has a similar nice deal on the Powerbook 15 - that's the actual TiBook. Someone else will have to describe the Linuxability of the thing. I would rather not have a case that is painted to make it look shiny (I actually like the darker look of bare titanium personally), and we already know from watching me lug the Gateway around that the size of a 15" screen based notebook is too much to carry easily.
No chance to get the 17" Powerbook?
Rodney
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