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Should I buy an iBook G4?

I'm honestly sick of windows, and I've heard great things about mac. Right now, I'm on an averatec laptop with an Athlon XP-Mobile processor, 40 gig hd, and 256 ram. I was looking into buying the iBook because my price range is about a $1000. It's small, 6 hour battery life, and I'd like to switch to mac. So I was wondering if anyone used Mac OSX here, and if they recommend it or not. Thanks.

Loads of my mates have iBooks. The iBooks look very cool and I haven't heard a single complaint from my mates. I'd recommend one and would buy one if I had the money

One thing you've got to keep in mind when buying your first mac is the cost of all the software.
Cos if you buy a mac but dont get any mac software than you'll be stuck with a sexy but useless laptop...

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Originally posted by MrCastle:

One thing you've got to keep in mind when buying your first mac is the cost of all the software.
Cos if you buy a mac but dont get any mac software than you'll be stuck with a sexy but useless laptop...

Other than Photoshop, which most people use sparingly anyway, there's not much... maybe some Office applications if necessary, but there are a lot of freeware/open-source applications for Mac. And if there isn't one specifically for Mac, (some) Linux programs will run on OS X...

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Last edited by Sykil, July 23rd, 2005 06:30 PM (Edited 2 times)

Well, thinksecret claims an updated iBook is under way, but Thinksecret claims alot of things. I have a 12inch powerbook myself, and I'm pretty darn happy with it. For your iBook, I would suggest a ram upgrade though, since 256 won't cut it.

Like sykil said, there isn't much software to buy, unless you are an avid gamer.

For the Office-issue, if you only need a (simple) word-processor(Word) and a presentation program(Powerpoint) and don't want to go open source (for whatever reason) I'd really suggest iWork (pages+keynote).

Pages may not have every singler function available in Word, but if you only need it for writing letters, assignments for school, a thesis, etc... it's pretty complete and far more user-friendly (from my expierence atleast). And keynote just blows Powerpoint out of the water.

If you want to know alternatives for other type of software, just ask away.

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what about programming enviroments? is there like a Notepad ++ equivelant for it?

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Originally posted by Advocation:

what about programming enviroments? is there like a Notepad ++ equivelant for it?

That's a text editor, not a programming environment. OS X comes with XCode, an IDE for C, C++, Java, and Objective-C, and Eclipse will run on Mac OS X, I think. If you want a text editor, well, every platform has at least 10 new text editors every day. If possible, I'd run Kate, a text-editor for KDE/Linux (which I'd venture to say is the best text editor ever). SciTE (also Linux) is similar to Kate but for GTK+. Qunata+ and Bluefish are two editors for Linux that are more geared toward (X)HTML authorizing. jEdit is one that I know runs natively on OS X. I've also come across Smultron, Joust, and uEdit.

If you're willing to pay for a text editor (something that I'd never do), SubEthaEdit and BBEdit are probably the best. SubEthaEdit is aimed at collaborative editing, though, and BBEdit is geared toward (X)HTML.

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Last edited by Sykil, July 24th, 2005 02:31 AM (Edited 3 times)

BBEdit has a free version called textwrangler. It's what I use and I'm happy about it.

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