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The official "I got the new iBook thread!"

I think im going to pick up the new ibook 12".

i sold my 1st gen ibook g4 (800mhz) a month ago for $1050 canadian, so picking one of the new ones up for 1379 with a free ipod mini is a pretty sweet deal if you ask me.
 
Some poor misguided soul is very angry in another forum. He claims that he just went to the Apple Store to play with the new ibooks and no ripple effect appeared. Will someone who actually has received one please put this young fellow at ease?
 
TaKashMoney said:
Some poor misguided soul is very angry in another forum. He claims that he just went to the Apple Store to play with the new ibooks and no ripple effect appeared. Will someone who actually has received one please put this young fellow at ease?
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He must be looking at an older model seeing how the new ones have Core Image.
 
TaKashMoney said:
Some poor misguided soul is very angry in another forum. He claims that he just went to the Apple Store to play with the new ibooks and no ripple effect appeared. Will someone who actually has received one please put this young fellow at ease?
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Well, here is a snapshot of the Ripple effect in action on my new iBook. It doesn't look good using screen capture, but it looks cool when you actually see it (nothing that special though IMO -- it just looks like how water in a swimming pool would behave if you dropped a small rock into it).
 

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I got my 14'' last night. Drove to Delaware to avoid tax and picked up the ibook, a blue iPod mini (which will soon be sold) and a printer to take advantage of that $100 rebate. Now I just gotta sell that mac mini I bought 2 months earlier and I wont feel so broke.
 
Prelude2Tragedy said:
I got my 14'' last night. Drove to Delaware to avoid tax and picked up the ibook, a blue iPod mini (which will soon be sold) and a printer to take advantage of that $100 rebate. Now I just gotta sell that mac mini I bought 2 months earlier and I wont feel so broke.
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Hehe keep the mini and charge walker-bys $10 to have a go.. you'll soon be rich.
 
come on guys. please post some xbench results. i am wainting here in germany until the ibooks reach the stores early next week to test if my project will work on them. if it does i have to buy one.
 
Just ordered a 14" iBook for my daughter (college freshman Aug 10). Yeah, fell for the "free" 4 gb iPod (aqua w/ free engraving). Had to keep up with her and be able to tell her how to "work" Tiger so got a copy of Tiger for my G5 ;) . Geez, had to get something for me :D . It all came to $1447, just under the $1500 Georgia tax free holiday :) :) :). Ships in 5 days, free shipping. Coulda gotten the 2 day for $23 but hey that's lunch! Can't wait to get everything. Think my daughter is actually happy bout the iBook......priceless :) . Cheers
 
I got suckered into buying a 12" at the Plano TX Apple Store today (my parents uncharacteristically agreed to pick up half as an early birthday - after selling the Mini (or my old 20GB) my cost is only $425ish).

The screen is definitely an improvement over the display model I looked at in the Dallas store, I'm going to calibrate the battery and swing by Fry's to pick up a 1GB stick this evening.

Oh, what a wild way to spend my Saturday.
 
upgrading RAM

For all those who do self-upgrades of RAM, doesn't the lack of AppleCare scare you?...
 
I'm not sure what you mean - by my understanding aftermarket RAM doesn't void the entire computer's warranty. The RAM isn't covered, of course (but would be the reseller or manufacturer), and if it managed to blow up anything on its own that wouldn't be covered by the warranty (more applicable if I tried to hack a 7200RPM drive in and melted something), but RAM itself shouldn't void everything.

Besides, if I had problems I'd remove the RAM to test/isolate the problem and leave it out when I took it in to the Genius Bar.
 
How warm should I expect the iBook to get under use?
I'm running a DVD (Closely Watched Trains not that anyone would care) to empty the battery and it feels a bit warmer than I expected below the keyboard and on the underside.

Temp monitor numbers:
Power Supply/Memory Bottomside: 118.0F
Processor Bottomside: 123.3F
Graphics Processor Bottomside: 129.2F
Battery: 93.2F
 
..and the fan?

I hope the new iBook (1,33GHz) are as quiet as my old (G4/800MHz) - do you hear any noise at all (except the harddrive seeking/writing every once in a while)?

D.
 
Finally got one!

Am writing this post on my new 12" iBook right now! :cool:
The ripple effect is *confirmed*.
The ripple is a little moody at first, while installing all the software updates (and I assume spotlight is indexing in the background as well).
It became a little more reliable after a reboot, however.

Picked it up at an Apple Store in Colorado. Eventually gave up on Apple Credit and just used my credit card. :p
I'll post some XBench stats a little later.
 
Congrats ! I see that you a Regular but you said you made the switch...Did you switch from a PC? Enjoy !

MUCKYFINGERS said:
I get dibs on being the first guy with a new 14" iBook with Superdrive! :)

hehe

in all seriousness, this is a GREAT machine. i finally made the switch today with this, and i must say i am very impressed by it. i am so glad i got this. my folks were with me when i got it, and they were wowed by, as my mom said, the "whiteness and cleansiness" of the 'book.

Just wanted to also say thanks to everyone for all their opinions and info regarding the books that helped me in my purchasing decision. MR is one of the best communities I've ever posted on.
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xbench results for 12" new ibook

I just ran xbench on my brand new 12" ibook. I'm on battery power still stilling in the store on Apple's wireless connection. I've only rebooted once since I got it, so it may be indexing or running maintenance in the background still.

Here's the results:


Code: 
Results	40.94	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.2
		System Version		10.4.2 (8D37)
		Physical RAM		512 MB
		Model		PowerBook6,7
		Processor		PowerPC G4 @ 1.33 GHz
			L1 Cache		32K (instruction), 32K (data)
			L2 Cache		512K @ 1.33 GHz
			Bus Frequency		134 MHz
		Video Card		ATY,M12
		Drive Type		FUJITSU MHV2040AT
	CPU Test	54.26	
		GCD Loop	109.78	5.79 Mops/sec
		Floating Point Basic	36.89	876.53 Mflop/sec
		vecLib FFT	74.99	2.47 Gflop/sec
		Floating Point Library	41.38	7.21 Mops/sec
	Thread Test	59.49	
		Computation	55.95	1.13 Mops/sec, 4 threads
		Lock Contention	63.50	2.73 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
	Memory Test	22.86	
		System	26.29	
			Allocate	131.45	482.75 Kalloc/sec
			Fill	27.18	1321.79 MB/sec
			Copy	14.34	296.26 MB/sec
		Stream	20.23	
			Copy	19.74	407.63 MB/sec [altivec]
			Scale	19.98	412.88 MB/sec [altivec]
			Add	20.23	431.01 MB/sec [altivec]
			Triad	21.00	449.19 MB/sec [altivec]
	Quartz Graphics Test	49.55	
		Line	41.81	2.78 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
		Rectangle	49.16	14.68 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
		Circle	47.52	3.87 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
		Bezier	64.01	1.61 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
		Text	50.05	3.13 Kchars/sec
	OpenGL Graphics Test	68.57	
		Spinning Squares	68.57	86.99 frames/sec
	User Interface Test	25.02	
		Elements	25.02	114.83 refresh/sec
	Disk Test	30.92	
		Sequential	45.94	
			Uncached Write	44.55	27.36 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	37.93	21.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	65.69	19.22 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	43.39	21.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	23.30	
			Uncached Write	9.00	0.95 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	40.25	12.89 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	49.97	0.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	63.79	11.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
dlira said:
I hope the new iBook (1,33GHz) are as quiet as my old (G4/800MHz) - do you hear any noise at all (except the harddrive seeking/writing every once in a while)?

D.
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I have played games and DVD and suck on my new iBook, sitting it on a pillow, and have STILL NEVER heard or felt the fan come on at all! And it was sitting on a pillow!! I am amazed at this beautiful machine!
 
CoMpX said:
I have played games and DVD and suck on my new iBook, sitting it on a pillow, and have STILL NEVER heard or felt the fan come on at all! And it was sitting on a pillow!! I am amazed at this beautiful machine!
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Thats good to hear, I noticed with my friends G3 iBook that it got hot on a pillow while just watching a DVD.
 
CoMpX said:
I have played games and DVD and suck on my new iBook, sitting it on a pillow, and have STILL NEVER heard or felt the fan come on at all! And it was sitting on a pillow!! I am amazed at this beautiful machine!
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Keep your kinkyness to yourself!






Heh, jk, I can't wait to get mine so I can have some fun, albeit not your kind of fun, with mine lol.

Jack
 
vivyanangel said:
I just ran xbench on my brand new 12" ibook. I'm on battery power still stilling in the store on Apple's wireless connection. I've only rebooted once since I got it, so it may be indexing or running maintenance in the background still.

Here's the results:


Code: 
Results	40.94	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.2
		System Version		10.4.2 (8D37)
		Physical RAM		512 MB
		Model		PowerBook6,7
		Processor		PowerPC G4 @ 1.33 GHz
			L1 Cache		32K (instruction), 32K (data)
			L2 Cache		512K @ 1.33 GHz
			Bus Frequency		134 MHz
		Video Card		ATY,M12
		Drive Type		FUJITSU MHV2040AT
	CPU Test	54.26	
		GCD Loop	109.78	5.79 Mops/sec
		Floating Point Basic	36.89	876.53 Mflop/sec
		vecLib FFT	74.99	2.47 Gflop/sec
		Floating Point Library	41.38	7.21 Mops/sec
	Thread Test	59.49	
		Computation	55.95	1.13 Mops/sec, 4 threads
		Lock Contention	63.50	2.73 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
	Memory Test	22.86	
		System	26.29	
			Allocate	131.45	482.75 Kalloc/sec
			Fill	27.18	1321.79 MB/sec
			Copy	14.34	296.26 MB/sec
		Stream	20.23	
			Copy	19.74	407.63 MB/sec [altivec]
			Scale	19.98	412.88 MB/sec [altivec]
			Add	20.23	431.01 MB/sec [altivec]
			Triad	21.00	449.19 MB/sec [altivec]
	Quartz Graphics Test	49.55	
		Line	41.81	2.78 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
		Rectangle	49.16	14.68 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
		Circle	47.52	3.87 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
		Bezier	64.01	1.61 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
		Text	50.05	3.13 Kchars/sec
	OpenGL Graphics Test	68.57	
		Spinning Squares	68.57	86.99 frames/sec
	User Interface Test	25.02	
		Elements	25.02	114.83 refresh/sec
	Disk Test	30.92	
		Sequential	45.94	
			Uncached Write	44.55	27.36 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	37.93	21.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	65.69	19.22 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	43.39	21.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	23.30	
			Uncached Write	9.00	0.95 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	40.25	12.89 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	49.97	0.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	63.79	11.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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Yikes, 41?! My 933Mhz quicksilver gets around 120.....I hope it was just busy indexing or SOMETHING! AHHH!
 
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