My iBook G4 died | Merry Christmas?!

I'm a first time poster - and while I've had Apples all my life, I'm not skilled in my lingo, so stay with me on this.

Okay, so I've had my little iBook G4 for the past two-three years and now it's dying. It's my little friend, and I've mourned it the last week or two the problems presented themselves.

It's been a really great computer, I can't complain. It put up with my dirty fingers, dog-haired beds, World of Warcraft and Pzizz addictions, many trips to the bathtub, my dirty man-on-man mpeg library, etc. etc.

But now it's dying. Or dead. It's like moaning. It's an awful sound and it breaks my -shaped heart. And besides that, now I've gone to shaking it like I'm giving a kid S.I.Ds just to power it. [Anyone have a guess to what's going on? haha]

And while this week has sucked not having a functional laptop on-top of fruitless income, someone great [Grammy!] offered me a loan of sorts and I've a MacBook coming to be with me forever - or until I kill it! Yay.

This is what I got:
2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
120GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm
Superdrive 8x
No Modem
No Optional Software
Keyboard/Mac OS
Country Kit

I have no idea if this is good or not. I also got the upgraded something for $150.-, maybe it was memory? Plus, the Nano/printer deal.

So, did I upgrade? I can imagine my old iBook was the lowest grade and this is like the medium, so should I expect more from this laptop then the one I have dying in my bedroom at the moment?

Oh, if anyone can brunette bimbo terms, you're a friend for life.

Many thanks to suffering through this newbie post!
K.

psychofreak said:

Yes, this will be screaming fast compared to your iBook (and the RAM, which allows speed and multiple programs to be open an the same time, will probably be bigger than in your iBook).

You will also be able to run Windows if you want to...

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Thank you so much for your reply! I was certain that it would be faster - just not sure if I would be able to notice it or not. If that makes sense. Yeah, I'm really bad at saying what I'm . . trying . . to . .

but, the added inch looks great. I've heard about the "glossy" finish to to the monitor screen . . I don't know that I'm going to dig it, but once it's on, I'm hoping it won't be as noticeable.

I'm pretty anti-windows, myself, but that may have an advantage down the road. You know, play some Zwinkys or something . . haha!

k.

Awe, thanks so much, Dartz. I'm antsy to get it!

I'm pretty low maintenance, Mac-wise.

I download a few hundred songs before I shuffle them off to CDs / iPods or delete them. I play some games [lame, old skool ones], eh . . . e-mail, chat, pretty basic, disappointing stuff.

Thanks a lot to you both!

Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on with iBook, like I said. But it could very well be the hardrive - that's a better guess than I could give.

The noise is coming from the left side, near to where the little vent is. It's funny because the computer will work almost flawlessly until the grinding, groaning sound . . and then it's almost paused until I tip it upside down or shake it like a back-up dancer.


*Oh, does anyone know if I will be able to transfer my iTunes, and other downloaded music to my new computer? I tried to add some songs from my friend's iMac and it erased my Nano's contents. That would stink to loose two iPods worth of music!

k.

Hehe. I gave my WoW addiction when I gave up on my ex-boyfriend. Haven't touched them both since.