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Originally posted by topicolo
I guess what ponyboy said was right, magill ISN'T gonna get an unbiased opinion here :). Here he is, trying to get advice for a laptop for wordprocessing, excel, and general lan/internet usage for under $1400CAN, and we're recommending dual 1gig towers with 320gb hds, GF4Ti500s or PB G4s that probably cost $3000-6000CAN. It's a good thing everything's all under budget! maybe we should think about working for the government ;).

Uhm I was just going to point that out myself. You say you want to run OSX well you need at leat 128 RAM at least or you will be using your book as a paperweight, hard drive size is up to you I have no idea of your needs. But I seriously think your price range needs to be adjusted just a bit if OSX is what you want it is a next generation OS therefore you need a next generation machine... The new low end ibook would be more than sufficient or and older upper end ibook whatever you get add some ram it is cheap and can only help
 
this is from the apple store (US):

Special Deals:

Refurbished iBooks
iBook 500MHz/64MB/10GB/CD-ROM/56K/Enet - Ref $799.00
iBook 500MHz/128MB/10GB/CD-RW/DVD-ROM/56K/Enet - Ref $1,099.00
iBook 600MHz/128MB/20GB/CD-RW/DVD-ROM/56K/Enet - Ref $1,149.00

Applecare for iBook - Enrollment Kit Add $249.00


That 600 mhz is a pretty good deal.....
 
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