Hello everyone out there in PPC land!
I was at school today and decided to bring my iPad mini to class with me instead of my iBook for one important reason; weight. But while taking notes on it, I started comparing the devices.
My iBook is 7 years old now and does not support flash 11, has wireless G Internet, has enough RAM to run Leopard pretty well according to my needs, but is quickly becoming less and less useful as the hardware/software requirements for certain apps and websites become more demanding of more recent technology.
My iPad on the other hand has wireless N, has plenty of RAM to run all the iOS apps I need to run, streams Netflix, can share my iTunes library completely, the battery lasts longer, the screen resolution is the same as my iBook, I can use FaceTime(unfair comparison I know!), and other stuff as well. It seems to me that the only advantages of having the iBook now is the existence of the ODD(which I have only used to install iWork '09 and reinstall the OS via disk utility on the Mac OS X install disk), and the available HDD space which is really only a few GBs due it being a 40GB HDD.
What do you guys think? Am I forgetting anything?
I was at school today and decided to bring my iPad mini to class with me instead of my iBook for one important reason; weight. But while taking notes on it, I started comparing the devices.
My iBook is 7 years old now and does not support flash 11, has wireless G Internet, has enough RAM to run Leopard pretty well according to my needs, but is quickly becoming less and less useful as the hardware/software requirements for certain apps and websites become more demanding of more recent technology.
My iPad on the other hand has wireless N, has plenty of RAM to run all the iOS apps I need to run, streams Netflix, can share my iTunes library completely, the battery lasts longer, the screen resolution is the same as my iBook, I can use FaceTime(unfair comparison I know!), and other stuff as well. It seems to me that the only advantages of having the iBook now is the existence of the ODD(which I have only used to install iWork '09 and reinstall the OS via disk utility on the Mac OS X install disk), and the available HDD space which is really only a few GBs due it being a 40GB HDD.
What do you guys think? Am I forgetting anything?