Should I sell my iBook for a MacBook?

[Caitlyn]

Thanks for all the opinions, guys! If you don't read my blog or haven't seen my other MR thread, I just put an online order in for a MacBook 2GHz White model with upgraded 80GB HD. I will up the RAM to 2GB later. I plan to put my iBook on eBay in about 2 days.

 

[Night Phoenix]

512 MB enough for now?

I am thinking about doing what you have done, sell my iBook for a MacBook. Let me know if the 512 MB of RAM performs well enough with the 2 GHz Processor to justify waiting a few months to upgrade the memory.

 

[shadowmoses]

I definatly reccomend foing it, sold my iBook on eBay a few days before the MacBook was announced it picked up some good money plus the difference beetween the machines is huge the MB is a far superior piece of hardware and more than worth the extra money you will pay for the upgrade,

ShadoW

 

[KingYaba]

I always wonder who buys these second hand macs for such a ridicilous price. But if you can sell it for $800 I wouldn't even have to think about it I would have ordered a MB now.

Lots of people have the mindset of buying used is the best route because they are "saving" money on a computer. When infact to someone who is really into computers knows they are getting ripped off.

But I know several people who despise Intel and will never switch to an Intel mac. So they put a high price on PPC.

 

[gothicx00]

But I know several people who despise Intel and will never switch to an Intel mac. So they put a high price on PPC.

I dunno how long you've been in the Mac game, but through every major hardware change, even some of the OS changes, there have been naysayers... I don't see the Intel switch as anything different.

I've been tinkering around with Mac's for ages. I've played with them all... literally. Now granted the first Mac that I personally could call mine, that nobody else had the right to get their little grubby mits on it, was the Macbook Pro I'm typing on at the moment. But I've either had access, had one in the home, or lived with sombody that had one. And I can tell you, that for sure right around the time the Pentium came out, PC's had Mac's licked as far as speed went. And PC's pretty much stayed on top for much of the rest of the time.

In my opinion, all IBM did was sap Apple's money, give the user base a false sense of hope, as well as keep Apple themselves on a string. It was the "Oh please don't spank us, we'll do better next time" and Apple ate it up because they thought IBM was the shiznit. And when it was all said and done with, all IBM had to show for it was a mediocre chip that ran nearly three times as hot as the average chip on the market at the time. And it was obvious to Apple that IBM was never going to deliver a fast and cool chip, unlike the two big dogs in the PC market, Intel and AMD.

So, as it is so obvious at this point, Apple told IBM to take a long walk off a short pier and the rest is history. 210 days after the first Intel Mac launched and the convert is complete.

But here's what I have to say to all the PPC fanboys out there. If you like a computer that doubles as a space heater, then more power to ya. And we all know that Apple has made mistakes in the past, but as the old saying goes, Third time is the freaking charm!