Heya... On Sep 2, 2008, at 5:17 , Ione Smith wrote:
> > Hey guys -- > > I may have a little disposable income in the near future. While I > love my Pismo, I'm interested in exploring the possibilities for a > new or new used machine. > > What do y'all think I should get? It must be a Mac laptop, first of > all. I do a lot of email/surfing, some web authoring, some word > processing, some graphics. Nothing too processor-intensive. I'd like > better video than the Pismo seems capable of. Whatever machine I get > must be relatively rugged and reliable, and hopefully would be > relatively easy to work on. Nothing smaller than a 14" screen. > Hopefully with a good battery life. > > Any suggestions would be welcomed, thanks! The iBooks aren't bad machines, I had a 12" Dual USB 500 for about 3 years and was satisfied with it. They are a little daunting to work on, tho'. With the prices coming down, I'd look at a Powerbook. I recently picked up an 15" Aluminum, 1.5GHz 'book on eBay for $525. One of the big things for me, besides being a better machine all over, was the ability to use my PCMCIA USB adapter... I have a lot of USB thingies. :-) My Powerbook had a DVD R/RW burner, 512 MB ram and an 80 GB hard drive. I've increased to ram to 2GB and the hard drive, while on the small-ish side these days, is only about half full. Most stuff goes to the 250GB external drive or a 4GB flash drive. (Some of those USB thingies! ;-> ) Amanda --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
