Greetings,
I am a long time PC user with very little time on Apple products. Having said that I have always found that they have had some nice products but for various reasons at various times I have always decided to keep going with Windows PC type products. Now my girl friends brother is going to be picking up a PowerBook through his colleges (OCAD) laptop program and has asked me for my opinion on it. I have have looked at his two choices from an outsiders prespective, but was wondering if an of you PowerBook users out there could give me your 2 cents on this. I have listed the two below and the only performance upgrades available are: upgrading to 1GB of PC2700 SDRAM for $75(CDN) or upgrading to 1GB of PC2700 SDRAM for $230(CDN). His major is in graphic design and he will be using the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, GoLive, and Acrobat Professional and Microsoft Office 2004. He also has a desktop PC with a DVD burner and the school has Apples with DVD burners available for student projects.
Thanks for any help,
Bryan
Choice #1
15" PowerBook Combo Drive
1.5GHz PowerPC G4, 15.2" TFT display, 512MB PC2700 SDRAM, 80GB harddrive, Combo drive, ATI Radeon 9700 video, 100/1000 NIC, Firewire 400&800, DVI & S-video, Airport Extreme card.
AppleCare Protection Plan
$2,612.00 Plus tax
$3,003.80 Including GST & PST
Choice#2
15" PowerBook SuperDrive
1.67GHz PowerPC G4, 15.2" TFT display, 512MB PC2700 SDRAM, 80GB harddrive, SuperDrive, ATI Radeon 9700 video, 100/1000 NIC, Firewire 400&800, DVI & S-video, Airport Extreme card.
AppleCare Protection Plan
$3,063.00(CDN) Plus tax
$3,522.45(CDN) Including GST & PST
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Go with choice number 1 with at least 1 gig of ram.
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I, too just made the switch. I bought #1 b/c I don't think the upgrades to #2 are worth the xtra$$.
I'm still adjusting, but so far so good. I love the way the PB looks and the keyboard is great. I'm really liking OSX, too.
If you need Office for Mac, you can get it on eBay for a lot less than MS or Apple.
If you're comfortable putting in your own memory, crucial has 512MB for < $80 w/free shipping.
Good luck!
Which PowerBook?
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