In a message dated 8/11/2003 9:21:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, kyjweber at mac.com writes:
> My niece is beginning college and asked my advice on purchasing either > an iBook or a PowerBook G4. Both with 12.1" screen, 900 MHz, Combo > drive. There's about a $200 difference in price (education discount) > and I don't know what advantages or disadvantages of either to give > her. Any opinions? > > They both also qualify for the $300 rebate on a bundle with the iPod > and printer, which turns out to be just $100 more on either purchase. > Well, first off, the PowerBook G4 12" uses DDR memory which is 2.6x faster than the PC100 in the iBook, although, the iBook's Radeon 7500M graphics are faster than the PowerBook G4's GeForce4 MX420 (not to mention that nVidia's buisness practice is highly unethical), the PowerBook G4 12" though, has a PC card slot(pretty sure it has a PC card slot), and AirPort extreme capabilities, other than that the G4 only has the G4 processor. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20030811/60c4683b/attachment.html
