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Summary: Want to avoid lockups? Get a Mac!
Review: I finally got sick of the constant regular lockups and endless search for updated drivers on my XP Pro Desktop PC so I became a "Switcher". 16 years on a PC (and about 2 hours history on a Mac) got me used to dealing with these problems. As I became more and more involved in digital pictures and video editing and saw the limitations of Windows for these "High Power" applications, I started looking towards the exceptional memory management of the Mac. My iBook is the most rock solid, reliable computer I have ever worked on. I've had iMovie2, iTunes, Photoshop Elements running and been wirelessly connected to the Internet downloading MP3's on Limewire without even a hiccup. Another reason for going with the iBook for me was to be able surf the web from anywhere in my house. I got an Airport Base Station and the Airport Card and can't believe how easy it was to connect it to my Cable Modem and start surfing. Plug and Play may have been a term coined by Microsoft, but they must have been talking about the Mac. My wife's PC Laptop is even connected through the Airport with just a wireless PCMCIA Card! I'll never buy another Windows PC and plan on replacing my Desktop PC with an iMac as soon as I can.
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Summary: I love it!!!!
Review: I have always been a Windows user, but I have used Macs off and on, and liked them everytime I used one. Being an author, I decided to purchase a laptop to write on instead of using my desktop. I am very glad I decided on the Apple iBook. It is a very smooth running and beautiful machine. I especially like all the software it comes equipped with. A few weeks after buying the iBook, I purchased an iMac to replace my desktop PC, and it is just as wonderful and fun to use as the iBook. Take my advice and the advice of all the other reviewers on here who say that they love this machine. It is GREAT, and you will not regret it.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I just purchased one of these and am extremely pleased. I opted for the iBook instead of the PowerBook for several reasons. First off, the PowerBook puts off way too much heat. I've also heard several complaints of the paint peeling and the slot-loading CD-ROM giving problems. Also, I wasn't ready to drop [dollar amount] on a notebook computer. I was a little hesitant at first to buy something with only a G3 processor, but rest assured, after you upgrade the RAM in this unit, it works like a dream. It runs OS X very nicely (and that's supposed to improve when Apple issues 10.2 [Jaguar]). I regularly use Microsoft Office apps along with Adobe Photoshop, Internet Explorer, etc., the usual stuff. I don't notice it as being any slower than my iMac G4. So anyway, if you're looking for a computer that does it all without a [big]price tag, I highly recommend the iBook.
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Summary: Worthless Product, Worthless Customer Service
Review: I purchased an Apple iBook direct from Apple about a month and a half ago. About a week after I recieved it, it quit working without any notice what so ever. It would not turn on. After countless hours of talking to Apple on the phone trying to get an exchange or a refund, all I could get them to do was to repair it. I sent it in for repair and got it back about two weeks ago. Yesterday, while typing, a key fell off the keyboard, and it also decided to shut itself off and not come back on again. I spent 4-5 hours on the phone with apple again, and they just try to make everything sound okay on how much money I dished out for it and tell me all they can do is repair it again. Meanwhile, I am still paying for it. So, after owning it a whopping month and a half, it's going in for its second repair. Try and stay away from Apple. There are more duds than you think, I work with them all day. If you are one of the lucky ones to get a dud, Apple makes it your problem instead of theirs. BEWARE!
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Summary: An older Powerbook is a Better Value
Review: I was in the market for one of these figuring that I'd like a lightweight Apple laptop for some purposes. After a bit of shopping around the Web and here on Amazon I realized that I could get the Titanium Powerbook with the G4 for less than this if I got an older model. Found a G4/500 right here on Amazon for $1200. That laptop has a much better screen, a PCMCIA slot, a G4 processor. Yeah, the processor isn't quite as fast, but loaded with RAM (I upgraded the RAM to 768), it's as fast or faster than this G3. To me the better screen, titanium case and other features of the G4 Powerbook make the year old Powerbook much nicer than the ibook. The ibook is OK, but the screen is just OK, the overall construction is flimsy. FWIW the construction of the Powerbook is pretty flimsy too. That's a problem with the very stylish notebooks (I've had plenty of experience with Sony Vaios). If you are in the market for an ibook, you owe it to yourself to at least consider a used, or older refurbished Powerbook. You might prefer the ibook, but you might be surprised that you can get a Powerbook for less than an ibook, and it's a much nicer computer.
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Summary: switched
Review: I'm one of those who switched from a PC to a Mac about six months ago. I took some heat from people at work, and yet they were impressed with the iPod, and when they found that OS X uses Unix. This iBook proved itself over and over again when I traveled from the East Coast , to Hawaii, and back to the Pacific Northwest. The battery life is very good. OS X is simple and reliable. I've shown my friends in Hawaii and now they are thinking about getting a Mac too. I have the iBook next to my PC desktop at home and I find that I don't use my PC much at all. I really enjoy iPhoto and iTunes . I hav'nt done much with iMovie yet, but I plan on it. I'm saving up now for an iMac G4.
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Summary: switched
Review: I'm one of those who switched from a PC to a Mac about six months ago. I took some heat from people at work, and yet they were impressed with the iPod, and when they found that OS X uses Unix. This iBook proved itself over and over again when I traveled from the East Coast , to Hawaii, and back to the Pacific Northwest. The battery life is very good. OS X is simple and reliable. I've shown my friends in Hawaii and now they are thinking about getting a Mac too. I have the iBook next to my PC desktop at home and I find that I don't use my PC much at all. I really enjoy iPhoto and iTunes . I hav'nt done much with iMovie yet, but I plan on it. I'm saving up now for an iMac G4.
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Summary: Switched from Windows
Review: Just got the new ibook, 256mb, 14" screen and love it. I haven't turned it off in a week and it runs fine. With my old PC I had to restart several times a day. It works just like the commercials: stick in a cd, click "import" and you've got the whole cd on your hard drive. Stick in a blank cd, click "burn", and you've copied the cd. It's light, and the powersaving features work great. One complaint... I had to go to the Apple Store at the mall to get a carrying case that fit well.
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Summary: Love it
Review: love it, it never messes up or freezes, ...
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Summary: Seattle PC Guy Goes OS X
Review: Never in my lifetime did I ever think I would own a Mac. I was smarter than that. I made fun of people who used them. I don't need the simplified GUI, I'm not in the Educational field and rarely do graphic design, so why get one?!? Well wouldn't you know it...as soon as I heard OS X was based on the BSD4.4 kernal, my ears perked up. Throw in a CD Burner, Apache, and all the practical and useful details of the iBook (way to many to outline here) and I was salivating to get my hands on one of these. I first was MCSE certified in the late 90's, switched to Cisco/Networking and am finishing up my CCNP, and am currently a net admin for a major website in Seattle...and yes, I now own a Mac. My relationship with this powerful little computer is mind blowing. I can download mp3's and burn them to disk all on the fly, watch movies in the background while using a terminal window to do network configs. It has a cool little button on the rechargable batteries that lets you tell how full they are without having to turn on the laptop (think Energizer battery meters on AA where you can see if the AA battery is still good or not). The display is beautiful for a 12 inch. I can boot into the Bourne or Korn shell completely bypassing the GUI if need be. And (AWESOME SIDE NOTE) if a GUI app gets stuck, i can "kill -9 pid" from a term window and get back to work (uh, no rebooting like W2K). I have a Cisco Wireless LAN @ home & @ work, and the built in wireless (airport) card works seemlessly between the two. It even picked up signal @ Starbucks on their network. I feel so Elite when I pull out my shiny white glowing ibook @ Starbucks and check my email and chat while eveyone else is stuck in analog mode reading the daily paper. True connectivity and digital bliss in a solid little package. I won't fully give up my W2K laptop (comfort in the familiar), but oddly enough for this apple convert, my time spent on my ibook far exceeds my Windows use...very strange to hear those words coming form my mouth. Now I have all the Linux gurus @ work wondering why they settle for a Dell laptop with Red Hat installed when they could be running a native Unix OS on a laptop that already recognizes the built-in hardware. OS X is a gorgeous environment. Mac's aren't just for teachers and kids anymore! =) Kevin
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