Jeez, that 1.4 GHz Pentium-M would not just crush a iBook, it would crush the top of the line powerbook too... no reason for anyone to get upset, but its true... and the battery will last about twice as long while it does the crushing
Originally posted by ZildjianKX
Jeez, that 1.4 GHz Pentium-M would not just crush a iBook, it would crush the top of the line powerbook too... no reason for anyone to get upset, but its true... and the battery will last about twice as long while it does the crushing
Originally posted by kuyu
Check out these comparable systems and the student price after taxes.
14.1 iBook: 933 G4, 256 ddr266, 40 GB, combo drive, extreme, ati 32ddr, app, bluetooth.
AFTER TAX: $1606.96
14.1 Dell inspiron 600m: 1.4 pentium M, 256 ddr266, 40 GB, combo drive, 802.11g, ati 32ddr, 3 year warranty and 3 year tech support, bluetooth.
AFTER TAX: $2069.12
This is amazing. There's almost a $500 difference. For the price of the Dell you could get a powerbook! And I thought Dell was the "bargain PC specialist".
Originally posted by kuyu
glad to see all the discussion. As stated, I'm a college student and price is of utmost importance. While any pentium chip will smoke a powerpc chip, I've realized that there is no point to all that extra power. I am going buy an ibook as soon as I get the funds together.
Originally posted by dieselg4
Any pentium chip? Surely not a Pentium MMX 233.
Originally posted by ITR 81
I compared my friends Dell and my PB. My PB has 1GHz with 512meg of ram, the Dell had the same ram but has 2GHz processor. He paid just over $2,600. I paid just over 3k for my PB. When we compared them he and I both noticed the PB starts up and shutdown faster. The UI is faster on the PB and similar apps like Office started up faster on the PB then his Dell. He was pissed by the fact he paid so much money for faster processor to find it was slower then PB. He told me he would've got a PB but he thought the Dell would be faster and it wasn't. Maybe it is in some apps but from just using it he said my PB is faster..and this was before Panther. So now it's even faster and I haven't even added ram to it yet.
I hate Dells because folks tend to have too many issues with them. I would rather go with IBM if I had to pick a PC laptop. As for battery performance my PB lasts just over 4hrs with modem and a USB mouse running on it. My friends Dell only ran 3 hrs doing the samething. In the mil we used Pansonic Toughbooks and didn't use any extra except LP and it only lasted 3hrs if that! The only Sony's I've seen last a long time was smaller sub-notbooks.