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The I love my iBook thread
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I've owned many iBooks, including the final one: 1.42 GHz, 14 inch monitor, 1.5 GB of RAM, 100 GB disk.
I know that I'll have to give in someday and buy a MacBook, but I still love my iBook. I've hauled it all over the world, and it has served me very well!
I know that I'll have to give in someday and buy a MacBook, but I still love my iBook. I've hauled it all over the world, and it has served me very well!
I recently purchased a G3 iBook from Craigslist. I liked it so much I gave my Gateway to a family member and now use the iBook as my sole computer. I've got my eyes out for a Macbook, but until then, the iBook works just fine. I upgraded the installation from Panther to Tiger, and it's working fine. Playback of vids is choppy, and the hard drive is small, but for surfing the internet, typing documents, and just bringing it along wherever I go, this thing is great. It's extremely portable, yet the screen is sharp, and the computer feels personal. I like it a lot. The only reasons I'm looking to upgrade are the slow processor, the small hard drive, and the USB 1 ports. If I do upgrade though, I'll miss this thing. It's been a while since I've taken pleasure in the simple act of using a computer. This laptop is at least 4 years old, but it does what I need it to (most of it, anyway). It sort of makes you think of how little we actually need to get by, computer wise, despite the billions of dollars spent annually in marketing (by Apple and other corporations) designed to have us think otherwise.
Yep, they are awesome. I just wish they didn't have that stupid logic board defect.
I don't think USB 1.1 is all that bad. Sure, I could probably use floppy disks faster then it can move files, but it is nice to have any USB at all.
iBook rocks
Our family invested in an iBook last week and got it yesterday. My very first computer was an Apple lle (that ran on DOS w/limited memory) The end of that was when I lost the startup disk(and was unable tor replace it as it had been made in 1981 and this was fast forward 1997).
Then I didn't have have a comp for about a year and my dad bought me a windows 98 machine(w/out Internet access). That was stolen out of my storage unit while I was moving into a town house in 2001 and I didn't have another comp until July 2004. ( I used the library or friends comp). I just didn't have the money to invest.
My step dad (well meaning I am sure) used parts from a computer that had been thrown out from the school district to get a comp together for me and put xp home on it. In a little over a year (august 2005) the entire thing had failed.
He put another one together (also xp) for me from parts lying around and it bit the dust just 4 weeks after I brought it home (and this one had never been connected on line as we had not the $ for Internet at the time) In Jan 2006. My brother had to come over and show me how to pull the files from the locked HDD (that I had just transferred over to the new HDD from the prior failed HDD).
I decided to build my own form then on, as I could not afford to invest all at once I began looking at parts and such. We began buying parts in March 2007 and had everything we needed by July 2007 and put our first box together. How liberating I must tell you. We put Xp Home it as well, as Vista had such a bad start(and finish). We had a few things configured wrong at the start and after much fuss were able to overcome it.
Xp Home crashed on me April 2008 and I put a new HDD in and re-installed as the HDD was not salvageable.(which was nice as I only had to come up with about 50$ as opposed to a whole new machine). Then 6 months later (mind you we are the more so than average paranoid windows users, as well with all the safeguards you can find online and checks daily for spy ware,Trojans ect.) it went down again, windows gave me some kind of terrible what is called the On/Off Virus, and I never got in again. We then went down to Best buy and bought a Toshiba Satellite, that came pre-installed with Vista. 9 months later it was toast, and although it was still under manufacturers warranty it still had to be sent away shipping and handling ect ect ect. So that was the end.
I moved us to Linux. My husband was lost without Windows, as he had just begun to use computers since we were together.
The install was successful, and everything worked right out of the box. The only trouble I ran into was the proprietary hardware configured directly for Vista. However Linux does provide in its OS universal drivers (for printers,mp3 players, ect) our Toshiba is hardcore proprietary, so much so that not even Windows XP will run on this machine-Only Vista-. So, it does ok for the most part (95%) but every now and then I have to do a re-install(every 2 months or so) and while we have no threat of virus or back-door hacks from Microsoft, I still have to continually keep up on the OS should the drivers disengage and need a fresh install(which is not time consuming at all as opposed to a windows install) but still I have to figure on messing with it always.
Well, my sons IBM went out (necessitate new optical drive,HDD,memory,and battery) which we also had Linux installed on.
SO I started thinking back to the last time I had a computer that I didn't have to mess with. It was when I was in high school and I had that mac. So I started looking around for a used apple laptop and came upon the iBook.
Wow, impressive sleek sexy machine I have to say. I found a refurbisher in South Carolina who only does Mac's and ordered a Refurb from them. I Ordered the 133ghz 12" G4 and it arrived yesterday morning.
Wow, just wow-and this machine came out 5 years ago-and five years ago this was leaps and bounds ahead of any Pc machine on the market.
I just cannot believe the graphics on this machine, good god if this was 5 years ago, what must the Macbooks be like hu?
I figure it might take me a few days to find my way around, however since I have been on Linux for almost a year now using the GUI is quite similar in its functions and therefore not as much of a learning curve as say a Windows Convert would be. I actually thought it was going to be just as hard as the switch to Linux (which was quite a bit to learn). I activated and updated all the software yesterday and learned to navigate around the desktop and panels. Today I configured the airport and added in our DNS (as our providers is so slow) and my son is playing PBS Kids happily on his new machine. My hope is that my son (who is 7) will be able to be fluent in all three OS's. He currently uses Windows on my dads machine when over there, Linux on the Toshiba and now he will be learning Mac on his machine.
Anyway, I am not going to bring Windows back into my house for both functionality and Moral reasons.
SO I joined here to participate and get advice from others.
I love this little iBook!
Our family invested in an iBook last week and got it yesterday. My very first computer was an Apple lle (that ran on DOS w/limited memory) The end of that was when I lost the startup disk(and was unable tor replace it as it had been made in 1981 and this was fast forward 1997).
Then I didn't have have a comp for about a year and my dad bought me a windows 98 machine(w/out Internet access). That was stolen out of my storage unit while I was moving into a town house in 2001 and I didn't have another comp until July 2004. ( I used the library or friends comp). I just didn't have the money to invest.
My step dad (well meaning I am sure) used parts from a computer that had been thrown out from the school district to get a comp together for me and put xp home on it. In a little over a year (august 2005) the entire thing had failed.
He put another one together (also xp) for me from parts lying around and it bit the dust just 4 weeks after I brought it home (and this one had never been connected on line as we had not the $ for Internet at the time) In Jan 2006. My brother had to come over and show me how to pull the files from the locked HDD (that I had just transferred over to the new HDD from the prior failed HDD).
I decided to build my own form then on, as I could not afford to invest all at once I began looking at parts and such. We began buying parts in March 2007 and had everything we needed by July 2007 and put our first box together. How liberating I must tell you. We put Xp Home it as well, as Vista had such a bad start(and finish). We had a few things configured wrong at the start and after much fuss were able to overcome it.
Xp Home crashed on me April 2008 and I put a new HDD in and re-installed as the HDD was not salvageable.(which was nice as I only had to come up with about 50$ as opposed to a whole new machine). Then 6 months later (mind you we are the more so than average paranoid windows users, as well with all the safeguards you can find online and checks daily for spy ware,Trojans ect.) it went down again, windows gave me some kind of terrible what is called the On/Off Virus, and I never got in again. We then went down to Best buy and bought a Toshiba Satellite, that came pre-installed with Vista. 9 months later it was toast, and although it was still under manufacturers warranty it still had to be sent away shipping and handling ect ect ect. So that was the end.
I moved us to Linux. My husband was lost without Windows, as he had just begun to use computers since we were together.
The install was successful, and everything worked right out of the box. The only trouble I ran into was the proprietary hardware configured directly for Vista. However Linux does provide in its OS universal drivers (for printers,mp3 players, ect) our Toshiba is hardcore proprietary, so much so that not even Windows XP will run on this machine-Only Vista-. So, it does ok for the most part (95%) but every now and then I have to do a re-install(every 2 months or so) and while we have no threat of virus or back-door hacks from Microsoft, I still have to continually keep up on the OS should the drivers disengage and need a fresh install(which is not time consuming at all as opposed to a windows install) but still I have to figure on messing with it always.
Well, my sons IBM went out (necessitate new optical drive,HDD,memory,and battery) which we also had Linux installed on.
SO I started thinking back to the last time I had a computer that I didn't have to mess with. It was when I was in high school and I had that mac. So I started looking around for a used apple laptop and came upon the iBook.
Wow, impressive sleek sexy machine I have to say. I found a refurbisher in South Carolina who only does Mac's and ordered a Refurb from them. I Ordered the 133ghz 12" G4 and it arrived yesterday morning.
Wow, just wow-and this machine came out 5 years ago-and five years ago this was leaps and bounds ahead of any Pc machine on the market.
I just cannot believe the graphics on this machine, good god if this was 5 years ago, what must the Macbooks be like hu?
I figure it might take me a few days to find my way around, however since I have been on Linux for almost a year now using the GUI is quite similar in its functions and therefore not as much of a learning curve as say a Windows Convert would be. I actually thought it was going to be just as hard as the switch to Linux (which was quite a bit to learn). I activated and updated all the software yesterday and learned to navigate around the desktop and panels. Today I configured the airport and added in our DNS (as our providers is so slow) and my son is playing PBS Kids happily on his new machine. My hope is that my son (who is 7) will be able to be fluent in all three OS's. He currently uses Windows on my dads machine when over there, Linux on the Toshiba and now he will be learning Mac on his machine.
Anyway, I am not going to bring Windows back into my house for both functionality and Moral reasons.
SO I joined here to participate and get advice from others.
I love this little iBook!
I love my G3 iBook for its' design and long battery life (it has a G4 iBook battery), but it's sluggish at best. I might have to try a different web browser though, it's using Safari.
At 500MHz, 640MB RAM, and 256k cache, it actually seems slower than my 333MHz Lombard PowerBook with 192MB ram and 512k cache.... both have 10.3.9 on them. The cache makes a bigger difference than people think.
At 500MHz, 640MB RAM, and 256k cache, it actually seems slower than my 333MHz Lombard PowerBook with 192MB ram and 512k cache.... both have 10.3.9 on them. The cache makes a bigger difference than people think.
here are some browsers
http://lowendmac.com/ed/royal/08sr/9-mac-browsers-compared.html
and yes if you run 10.3.9 then camino is best