It's phat. Steve Jobs and Apple know whats up.

9/23/2005 11:49:56 AM

More like Microsoft knows how to code MS Office for the Mac.

9/23/2005 11:54:22 AM

^MS Office? I use adobe CS nigga

9/23/2005 11:55:11 AM

awesome! i just ordered one myself last night. what's the specs on yours?

9/23/2005 12:02:52 PM

I just got an iMac from 1999.

It's a surprisingly great computer.

9/23/2005 1:15:36 PM

i was going to get one

but then i realized i wasn't a fag

9/23/2005 1:29:35 PM

i got a powerbook 2 weeks ago.

the grass is greener.

9/23/2005 1:58:52 PM

This is what I got:

1.42GHz PowerPC G4
512K L2 cache @1.42GHz
512MB memory (DDR333 SDRAM)
14.1-inch TFT Display
1024x768 resolution
ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
32MB DDR video memory
60GB Ultra ATA hard drive
SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme
Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Scrolling Trackpad
Sudden Motion Sensor

9/23/2005 2:15:36 PM

Guess what

your laptop can't really play 1080p.

How do you feel having bought something inferior?

9/23/2005 2:17:27 PM

^what is 1080p

Guess what...your laptop gets viruses, spyware, and locks up

I never claimed my new laptop was God. I just like apple's OS better than Microsoft.

Eat a dick man.

9/23/2005 2:21:49 PM

My laptop runs Linux.

Its only problem is trying to do anything productive.

Which happens the be the same problem you have.

Cept my laptop can run full HD movies and Tuxracer like a beast.

I win.

9/23/2005 2:23:37 PM

The iBook will play DivX encoded HD movies just fine, just not h.264

9/23/2005 2:25:16 PM

Won't.

Run.

1080p.

All have challenged this, and all have failed.

9/23/2005 2:26:13 PM

^^really? why won't it play h.264?

9/23/2005 2:36:07 PM

i hope you didn't pay alot for those 4 year old specs

9/23/2005 2:36:40 PM

It'll play h.264, just not the HD ones at full speed.

9/23/2005 2:36:54 PM

my laptop doesn't get viruses, spyware, or lockup. guess I bought one of those special steve jobs edition emachines.. and I run windows.

9/23/2005 2:45:23 PM

i want one of the cute clamshell ones

the colors are so fun

9/23/2005 2:45:30 PM

yeah i got something similar as well:


1.42GHz PowerPC G4
512K L2 cache @1.42GHz
1.25GB memory (DDR333 SDRAM)
14.1-inch TFT Display
1024x768 resolution
ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
32MB DDR video memory
100GB Ultra ATA hard drive
SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme
Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Scrolling Trackpad
Sudden Motion Sensor


haha, 4 year old specs? c'mon!

9/23/2005 2:46:12 PM

yeah, I had a pc my junior year in high school (5 years ago) with an athlon 1.33ghz, 512mb of ram, a pioneer dvd burner (superdisk drive), and 200gb of hard drive space.

9/23/2005 2:51:02 PM

i was always under the impression that 1.4ghz on an apple is not the same as 1.4ghz on a PC.

that being said, I have an old powerbook (bout 2 years old i think)

867 mhz
640mb ram
32 mb nvidia GeForce4 mx
12" display
1024x768 res.
40gb hd
airport extreme
bluetooth

and it's a great computer

9/23/2005 4:19:41 PM

A PowerPC processor at 1.4 Ghz /= an Intel processor at 1.4 Ghz.


However, the Mac : Windows CPU comparisson will be valid as soon as Apple starts sticking Intels into their machines.

9/23/2005 5:01:37 PM

my giga hurtz

9/23/2005 5:04:42 PM

Powerbook > ibook

9/23/2005 5:10:01 PM

Quote :

"and Tuxracer like a beast."

lol hell yes

[Edited on September 23, 2005 at 5:40 PM. Reason : .]

9/23/2005 5:39:46 PM

I can play Tux Racer too.

http://www.develux.com/old/tuxgames/
http://supertux.berlios.de/

9/23/2005 6:45:26 PM

I used a powerbook over the summer (I had a job video editing) and I wasn't very impressed. Being a longtime Windows user, and now Linux user, I had high expectations for OS X (the laptop I had was running 10.4), yet it managed to fail in almost every aspect. Stability was horrible, Final Cut crashed all the time (wasn't user error either, all the A/Vs had this problem, including the longtime mac users). The UI took some getting used to, and didn't feel more productive even after I'd been using it for a while, and though it was very pretty, it also felt kinda sluggish. To each his own though I suppose.

9/24/2005 12:58:51 AM

Quote :

"Guess what...your laptop gets viruses, spyware, and locks up"

only for people who dont know how to fix those problems.

9/24/2005 2:34:30 AM

Quote :

"only for people who dont know how to fixavoid those problems."

9/24/2005 2:51:37 AM

santa, get off your HD high horse.. Who cares?
your dell is still inferior to my powerbook.
and I'd have to say it's productive..
and last time I checked, you weren't running linux..

9/25/2005 2:32:12 PM

while the g4 may have pretty wide pipelines.. it's far from being even close to competitive with really any modern x86 chip. a 1.xx g4 is not going to the have the flop count of a similar speed pentium-m or a top of the line x86 chip from 3 years prior.

9/25/2005 2:53:54 PM

Quote :

"only for people who dont know how to fix those problems."

Which comprises about 90% of the computing population.

9/25/2005 3:01:25 PM

Quote :

"a 1.xx g4 is not going to the have the flop count of a similar speed pentium-m or a top of the line x86 chip from 3 years prior."

In general that would be true, but a G4 could easily have 2-3x the FLOPs for code that uses AltiVec to its fullest.

9/25/2005 3:11:05 PM

Quote :

"I used a powerbook over the summer (I had a job video editing) and I wasn't very impressed."

who the fuck does video editing on a laptop with final cut pro?

9/25/2005 4:34:17 PM

^
It's actually fairly common for working in the field, shoot your film and do some basic edits on the spot to see how it looks before taking it into the studio. I've done that filming political stuff before.

The better question is how the fuck did he get it to crash all the time

9/25/2005 4:40:21 PM

Quote :

"The better question is how the fuck did he get it to crash all the time"

damn right

9/25/2005 5:45:45 PM

had mine now for almost a year.... pwnz (sp?)

9/27/2005 11:29:43 PM