We are just about at the end of our 3 yr rental period with our
trusty imac and are thinking of buying 2 machines (who gets to play
on the shiny apple..me..me!!
So current thinking is
1 ibook for Roger who writes and searches the net for research and
one 15 in superdrive powerbook for me because I give presentations;
design web pages; collect oodles of photos and do lots of stuff on
the net (as well as test lots of different software)
Is this a better solution that a desktop imac and a 12 powerbook
(cause we'll have advd drive in the imac.
depends on your needs given adequate memory the G5 iMac will be
"faster and better" if your doing fairly heavy duty stuff but on the
day to day needs a iBook will more than suffice... My 3 year "old"
Powerbook (1Ghz 1G RAM) still suits my needs in every area including
pretty heavy duty Photoshop use except perhaps being a little under
powered with how I (ab)use Gararge Band (but I should really be using
Reason for what I do there)
my only suggestion is to give them the best life span buy them with
as much memory as you can justifiably afford... don't get the Apple
memory get the shop to fit Legend brand for a half of the cost (my
new iBook 12" that should arrive some time soon will be fitted in
shop with 512MB for only $3 more than the Apple built to order cost
for 256MB.)
Now some questions.
Is the applecare warranty worth the money? Do the notebooks die that
much after the first year?
In my opinion yes... One dead Super drive is all it takes to make it
worth while and imagine paying for a replacement logic board!!!
even for peace of mind it's worth the "expense"
What's the best way to transfer all the stuff we want to keep from
the present imac to one or other of the notebooks?
use the transfer utility in OSX 10.4 (assuming your current iMac is
running OSX is a G4 or one of the G3's with Firewire) Link both
Macs with FireWire cable boot old mac in to target mode boot new mac
as normal first run will do the standard import but you can do it
again using the Migration Assistant program in Utilities folder.
As always back up important data to CD before doing anything like this.
I know how to copy documents etc but how do I move email and
addressbook contacts and iphoto library etc
as above
A lot of questions, but after 12 years on windows machines (yuk!) we
are very happy "switchers" , I still don't know much about the
backend of macs (nothing much goes wrong so you don't need to!)
errr well enough goes wrong with them to keep me gainfully employed :)
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Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia.
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose
sight of the shore."
Andre Gide
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across
the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil,
shouting GERONIMO"
Hunter S Thompson(?)
