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ibook return
my experience shows that if she bought it online from the apple store, she has 10 working days to return it, even if opened. no re-stockling fee.
this applies to denmark and i expect to uk too.
m a y a said:If she hasn't opened the iBook box she might get all her money back with or without a restocking fee (depends on merchant).
If she already opened the box there are very few options to consider. A trade-in might be one of them.
Its only been 14 days you might have some luck with trading it in with the new model or getting some extra £'s back.
my experience shows that if she bought it online from the apple store, she has 10 working days to return it, even if opened. no re-stockling fee.
this applies to denmark and i expect to uk too.
My iBOOK 14" 1.2GHz is now 2 months old I think. I had to wait a month to get it, which was frustrating. Now they're all updated and cheaper, which is a little frustrating too. I could've had 20Gb extra an +.13Mhz for 100+ less...
Can't Apple announce it's products a few months in advance so people can decide which time is best to buy?
Anyway, I'm still very happy with my iBook. It's my first Mac, but if it lasts as long as my Toshiba did, I'm sure it won't be my last...
Now if only those cinema displays were a little cheaper...
Can't Apple announce it's products a few months in advance so people can decide which time is best to buy?
Anyway, I'm still very happy with my iBook. It's my first Mac, but if it lasts as long as my Toshiba did, I'm sure it won't be my last...
Now if only those cinema displays were a little cheaper...
Just curious, anyone know how the 12" iBook's keyboard compares to the 12" PB's keyboard? Also, how is the actualy battery life of the 12" iBook?
If the next revision of the iBook has a better graphics card (and is still an ATI card that supports the extended desktop hack), I might pick one up. I just wish adding a 5400 RPM drive was an option (BTO).
If the next revision of the iBook has a better graphics card (and is still an ATI card that supports the extended desktop hack), I might pick one up. I just wish adding a 5400 RPM drive was an option (BTO).
my iBook was stolen
Hi there, last week my iBook was stolen and i just bought a 12 incher today.
i had one of those g3 500mhz old iBook .
I guess 1.2 will do fine with me for my needs with 512 mb of memory.
I think you have to know what u want your computer to do for you.
i also bought an iMac g5.
RobertV said:
Hi there, last week my iBook was stolen and i just bought a 12 incher today.
i had one of those g3 500mhz old iBook .
I guess 1.2 will do fine with me for my needs with 512 mb of memory.
I think you have to know what u want your computer to do for you.
i also bought an iMac g5.
video ram still need to be increased before Tiger..
would have bought if they had upgraded video!
would have bought if they had upgraded video!
I own an 800mhz g3 ibook? I look at the specs on mine, and I look on spec now. Whats the point of buying an new ibook? Final Cut Pro 3, and DVD Studio Pro Runs fine, and I can burn dvd videos with my new 12x dual layer lg external drive. Renders mpeg2 fine, heck people don't even use an ibook for these things. If I am sad I can even tweak FCP4, to run on a G3.
G3 800mhz
30gb
32mb 7200 Radeon
Airport Card
384 mb ram
12 inch display with 1024X840
so what has changed? I can do "exatcly the same things" on my G3. Why would anyone pay for just a better CPU (for the altivec and a grand boost of 500mhz), the screen resolution still is 1024X840, GPU can't even run coreimage at minium requirements. 802.11b is still the standard, and its good enough. The hard disk? I have the same size and this was bought as the mininum model 2 years ago. The GPU doesn't even change much.
The powerbooks are even more pathetic. 1.4 G4? for "that price?" You can get a 3ghz HT notebook on wintel, for the price u get powerbooks at.
Another thing about these notebooks is sound, just make it better already...
the ibook microphone is a joke, it doesn't even work, with ichat and audio internet calls so important nowadays, you don't even have a audio in. Its ridiculous.
G3 800mhz
30gb
32mb 7200 Radeon
Airport Card
384 mb ram
12 inch display with 1024X840
so what has changed? I can do "exatcly the same things" on my G3. Why would anyone pay for just a better CPU (for the altivec and a grand boost of 500mhz), the screen resolution still is 1024X840, GPU can't even run coreimage at minium requirements. 802.11b is still the standard, and its good enough. The hard disk? I have the same size and this was bought as the mininum model 2 years ago. The GPU doesn't even change much.
The powerbooks are even more pathetic. 1.4 G4? for "that price?" You can get a 3ghz HT notebook on wintel, for the price u get powerbooks at.
Another thing about these notebooks is sound, just make it better already...
the ibook microphone is a joke, it doesn't even work, with ichat and audio internet calls so important nowadays, you don't even have a audio in. Its ridiculous.
CaptainCaveMann said:
Thanks for the in-depth reply, I can tell you put a lot of effort into it and really contributed to the discussion...
thanks i try~Shard~ said:Thanks for the in-depth reply, I can tell you put a lot of effort into it and really contributed to the discussion...
... conveniently ignoring product architecture issues (as a d*mb customer), I'd buy one tomorrow (a cheapo 12") if a faster FSB (say 300MHz), soldered 512MB RAM (so can wait to upgrade), standard 60MB Hard-drive (OSX and a six-pack of apps/games sucks up 30GB really quick!), and the 3 year Applecare was a hundred bucks cheaper... for a grand total of about $1600 Canadian
Conventional wisdom suggests that Intel lost the speedup gameplan from Pentium III to IV (halve the Pentium IV Ghz for a G4 equivalent CPU speed), yet common Wintel 300/400/500 GHz FSB has gotta help throughput, and the abundance of fast Wintel videocards must greatly help.
Transparent, reliable, ease of use are vital, but I still want to run apps without "brewing a coffee" delays...is a 1.2 G4 133FSB OSX up to the task? BTW the iMac G5 1.6 is about perfect speed...
Conventional wisdom suggests that Intel lost the speedup gameplan from Pentium III to IV (halve the Pentium IV Ghz for a G4 equivalent CPU speed), yet common Wintel
300/400/500 GHz FSB has gotta help throughput, and the abundance of fast Wintel videocards must greatly help.Transparent, reliable, ease of use are vital, but I still want to run apps without "brewing a coffee" delays...is a 1.2 G4 133FSB OSX up to the task? BTW the iMac G5 1.6 is about perfect speed...
jeez how many games do you have!!???RealDeal said:... conveniently ignoring product architecture issues (as a d*mb customer), I'd buy one tomorrow (a cheapo 12") if a faster FSB (say 300MHz), soldered 512MB RAM (so can wait to upgrade), standard 60MB Hard-drive (OSX and a six-pack of apps/games sucks up 30GB really quick!), and the 3 year Applecare was a hundred bucks cheaper... for a grand total of about $1600 Canadian
Conventional wisdom suggests that Intel lost the speedup gameplan from Pentium III to IV (halve the Pentium IV Ghz for a G4 equivalent CPU speed), yet common Wintel
Transparent, reliable, ease of use are vital, but I still want to run apps without "brewing a coffee" delays...is a 1.2 G4 133FSB OSX up to the task? BTW the iMac G5 1.6 is about perfect speed...
Simcity 4, Knights of the Old Republic, Call of Duty plus about 15 big download demos, plus bunch legacy M$ office files ( 10 GB)...
Guess I'm nervous 'cause 50% free 30 GB HD with Windows means that M$ Word will crash 100% with a 30 gif 300KB total 3 page document (not enough HD with 512MBRAM)...
Guess I'm nervous 'cause 50% free 30 GB HD with Windows means that M$ Word will crash 100% with a 30 gif 300KB total 3 page document (not enough HD with 512MBRAM)...
MacSA said:This is why I might wait until Tiger is released to switch, by then they should have iBooks with much better specs - and Tiger pre-installed
I can understand not upgrading, but not switching? Tell me one thing a G4 Powerbook or iBook cannot do compared to a Wintel book that will change with the next rev.? I still think the G4s are nice, although not awesome there's really nothing that will make the notebook series a mobile supercomputer. They have already a lot going for them that Wintel laptops don't.
Last time I looked Dell were still selling cheap P4 laptops with 20GB HDs. By the time you added a 60GB HD, and installed more than a CD-ROM in there it suddenly pushed the price up to around £900-£1000 - way more than the iBook (12" now £749). I agree that 30GB is a bit slim these days but there are BTO options.
People seem to moan about lots of things that they want to be 'standard' in the iBooks. However, these things ARE standard in the PBs and this is part of the reason you pay more for them. The iBooks are supposed to be a cheaper option without all these luxuries. Take Bluetooth for example - many many people don't have a Bluetooth phone or PDA and so the addition of Bluetooth standard would be lost on them. There are plenty of other wireless mouse standards, and even these are luxury items. Those who want iBooks with Bluetooth can order them with Bluetooth - I don't think they should be forcing certain technologies on users just for the sake of it - these things bump up the price and/or lower Apple's margins.
The iBooks are the best value Macs at the moment and I think you get a hell of a lot there in a very neat package.
Oh, and when I got my PB 12" last year (about a month before the iBook G4s were released), I didn't have a choice - there was no way I would get a 900MHz G3 and I'm so glad I've got the G4, not to mention all the updated stuff like AirPort Extreme adn the like. If I'd have chosen iBook G3 last year, my machine would have seen so dated now.
People seem to moan about lots of things that they want to be 'standard' in the iBooks. However, these things ARE standard in the PBs and this is part of the reason you pay more for them. The iBooks are supposed to be a cheaper option without all these luxuries. Take Bluetooth for example - many many people don't have a Bluetooth phone or PDA and so the addition of Bluetooth standard would be lost on them. There are plenty of other wireless mouse standards, and even these are luxury items. Those who want iBooks with Bluetooth can order them with Bluetooth - I don't think they should be forcing certain technologies on users just for the sake of it - these things bump up the price and/or lower Apple's margins.
The iBooks are the best value Macs at the moment and I think you get a hell of a lot there in a very neat package.
Oh, and when I got my PB 12" last year (about a month before the iBook G4s were released), I didn't have a choice - there was no way I would get a 900MHz G3 and I'm so glad I've got the G4, not to mention all the updated stuff like AirPort Extreme adn the like. If I'd have chosen iBook G3 last year, my machine would have seen so dated now.
I think someone made a typo!
Look at the amount of RAM they offer, its like the late 80's-early 90's all over again. However, I can't understand how the new iBooks can run OS X like that.
THIS WAS IN AN EMAIL ADVERTISEMENT FROM APPLE!
Order your iBook today.
Order online at the Apple Store or over the phone at 1-800-MY-APPLE and you can custom-configure your iBook with up to 1.25MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, and a built-in Bluetooth module for wireless connectivity to digital devices such as Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, handhelds, and peripherals. Order your new iBook today.
Look at the amount of RAM they offer, its like the late 80's-early 90's all over again. However, I can't understand how the new iBooks can run OS X like that.
THIS WAS IN AN EMAIL ADVERTISEMENT FROM APPLE!
Order your iBook today.
Order online at the Apple Store or over the phone at 1-800-MY-APPLE and you can custom-configure your iBook with up to 1.25MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, and a built-in Bluetooth module for wireless connectivity to digital devices such as Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, handhelds, and peripherals. Order your new iBook today.
I picked up a 12" 1.2 with all the standard specs last night. I'll add a 512 stick of Crucial when they have it in stock.
Price point was just too good, and I've been looking for a laptop for my photography. The AirPort Extreme was the deal clincher, personally.
Price point was just too good, and I've been looking for a laptop for my photography. The AirPort Extreme was the deal clincher, personally.
iGary said:
Same with me, I figure that I get a speed bump that will be almost free of extra cost after all rebates and used ibook selling (i hope)
So even is coreImage is an issue to me, I think it does not make to much sense n a notebook anyway - if all the core image effects are on - graphics will use a lot of extra battery power.... think about that, too.