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which mac to get?

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annilation

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I finally broke down and decided to get a mac. I think I would prefer a small laptop but am maybe debating a mac mini because of price. Right now I have 15.4 laptop (celeron m, 1.5gb ram, xp pro) and desktop (p4d 820, 3gb ram, 7600gt, xp pro) I was first looking at a 12" iBook but the price seems a little high for a used one. I found one on cragslist locally 1.33GHz G4, 768mb ram, 40gb hd but its $600.I know a base macbook is $1099 but I would want to get the middle one for $1299 and probably run bootcamp so I could run xp and osx. I know the mac mini is $600 new but can get one locally for $400 G4 1.2GHz, 512mb ram with 1 year left of applecare. So I am confused on what I should get. I would use it for surfing the web, networking (I do some consulting- if a laptop), some light video/picture editing, maybe some web design, if a laptop maybe light gaming.
 
I would recommend a G4 Powerbook 15" if you can find a good deal on one. Decent power with portability when you need it
 
You can try Apple's refurb site. Macbooks (core duo) start at $899 there and they have the full warranty. I'm sure you can get a good deal there.
 
I sold my 12" PowerBook G4 and my Opteron165/SLI Gaming rig and bought a 15.4" MacBook pro to do both jobs. I couldn't be happier. I don't game nearly as much as I used to so the lower end video card doesn't bother me much. The laptop is great and I'm glad I bought it.
 
felix88 said:
I sold my 12" PowerBook G4 and my Opteron165/SLI Gaming rig and bought a 15.4" MacBook pro to do both jobs. I couldn't be happier. I don't game nearly as much as I used to so the lower end video card doesn't bother me much. The laptop is great and I'm glad I bought it.
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What do you use your system for? I have been thinking about doing the same thing too.
 
taylorwilsdon said:
You can try Apple's refurb site. Macbooks (core duo) start at $899 there and they have the full warranty. I'm sure you can get a good deal there.
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Actually, they start at $799.
 
somethings people seem to have missed:

He said he wants to run bootcamp.
You can't do that on a PowerPC Mac (G3, G4, G5). Only the Intel ones.

I would recommend a new Mac Mini
 
I've got a Macbook Pro and a Macbook right now, so if you have any questions about them, feel free to ask me any questions.

I love the Macbook Pro, if thats even remotely an option, I'd take it. It is powerful enough to double as a full time desktop but light and mobile enough for a full time road warrior notebook.
 
4b5eN+EE said:
somethings people seem to have missed:

He said he wants to run bootcamp.
You can't do that on a PowerPC Mac (G3, G4, G5). Only the Intel ones.

I would recommend a new Mac Mini
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You can't run bootcamp on a PPC mac, but you can use what mac users have used for years to run Windows on their machines and that's Virtual PC.
 
annilation said:
What do you use your system for? I have been thinking about doing the same thing too.
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Nowadays I don't do a whole lot with my computer. I do some basic stuff with my photos and a little video editing. 99% of what I do is in OSX. Every once in a while I need to use a Windows app, so I can reboot into XP using Boot Camp, or now that the new Parallels Beta supports booting from the Boot Camp partition, I can just run Parallels and use the same OS in a virtual machine. It's pretty neat.

Anyway, when I play games it's mostly HL2 and this one called Silent Storm that I thought was pretty cool.
 
Just buy the Macbook. Mac OS X on PowerPC is sometimes a little laggy, even on high-end dual G5s. It's never really Teh Snappy. It just feels much faster on Intel.

$600 for an old iBook? Sheesh! I should sell mine! It has the same CPU, twice the RAM and a 120 gig hard drive! I'll get almost enough to buy a Macbook instead! ;)
 
Black Morty Rackham said:
$600 for an old iBook? Sheesh! I should sell mine! It has the same CPU, twice the RAM and a 120 gig hard drive! I'll get almost enough to buy a Macbook instead! ;)
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Indeed. I got $425 for an old PB Onyx from
here

I'd go MacBook or Mini.
 
taylorwilsdon said:
I've got a Macbook Pro and a Macbook right now, so if you have any questions about them, feel free to ask me any questions.

I love the Macbook Pro, if thats even remotely an option, I'd take it. It is powerful enough to double as a full time desktop but light and mobile enough for a full time road warrior notebook.
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i so agree. i nearly bought the macbook because it's smaller and it's easier to lug around for school and stuff. it's an awesome laptop...i still sometimes think about the size though, but i haven't really taken it with me anywhere yet since it's still holidays
 
I think I'm gonna go get the 13" ibook for $1299 tomorrow should I wait though until the macexpo?
 
annilation said:
I think I'm gonna go get the 13" ibook for $1299 tomorrow should I wait though until the macexpo?
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if you need it just buy it. if you don't, then wait.
 
mrweasel said:
Indeed. I got $425 for an old PB Onyx from
here

I'd go MacBook or Mini.
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If you don't mind me asking, when did you get that, and what condition was your PB in?
 
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