LOLOL Jerry...thanks :) As long as I could really run a virtual PC type program that would be fine.
Thanks for all your feedback as always! Have a fabulous week! Susan on 11/2/02 11:41 PM, Jerry Yeager at jerry at browseryshop.com wrote: > The rumor sites are harmonically converging toward agreement that Apple > is going to release new iBooks and Powerbooks on November 6, 2002. Both > models will be faster, with iBooks getting a price drop. > > Susan, don't go over to the dark-side... the landscape is littered with > broken laptop cases left there by owners that thought they would work > and look like the desktops and the winds bear tales of the woes of > trying to upgrade these accursed beasts. Reports are coming in from all > over of a strange crippling malady --- people are creaking over to one > side from hours of trying to carry the heavy things in cases. > Ahh, the inhumanity of it all... > > On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 11:17 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Lee Larson wrote: >> >>> I ended up with an iBook 700/14.1 because it weighs under six pounds >>> and has a battery life of around six hours. (It really does; I've tried >>> it.) I chose the iBook over the TiBook because it didn't seem as though >>> I was getting that much more for at least another $500. I'm very happy >>> with my choice--so far. >> >> I have a TiBook, my wife has an iBook. Both 20G drives, mine 256M, hers >> 128M memory, hers is a cd r/w-dvd, mine just a dvd. Her airport a few >> shades more responsive than mine. >> >> When it comes down to it, the only real difference tween the two laptops >> is the screen. The TiBook screen is expansive and wonderful. So unless >> you've a great need for the screen [and to be honest, with hindsight I >> don't have that need], I'd go with the iBook. >> >> Look to increase the hard-drive size, mp3's and video quickly fill it, >> though an iPod helps with the mp3's :) >> >> 128M memory has been more than enough for her and she hits it quite hard >> with movie-making etc. >> >> Airport [wireless network] cards are easier to fit in an iBook. >> [THey're a >> bit of a pain with a TiBook.] >> >> Weight wise they're about the same [surprisingly] and battery life is >> probably similar [we never really test]. >> >> I've been looking for a good Wintel laptop that I could run Windows >> XP/Linux on for a while now, but can't find anything that looks good >> enough [the curse of being lured to a Mac]. >> >> Hen >> >> >> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 >> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of >> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. >> >> >> >> > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
