“I had promised myself I would not immediately write about Apple Computer’s iBook G4, which bowed last fall and sells for as little as $1,099. I had determined that a week or two must pass before I formed an opinion. What can I say? Rules were made to be broken. My iBook G4 arrived last Thursday and I’m already impressed,” Mark Kellner writes for The Washington Times.
“Performance is rather zippy; startup takes about a minute, but then programs zoom right along. The hard disk size seems more than adequate for a home or home office user. And the $1,499 unit includes an optical drive that’ll play DVD movies and record and play CD-ROMs,” Kellner writes. “I could easily see this computer accompanying someone to a college dorm, or part of a very stylish home office. It’s a good portable, it’s a good home computer, and I’ll have more to say about it after a couple of road trips.”
Full article here.
[Update: 9:54am – fixed attribution.]
Oops. Instead of “Mark Kellner writes for the Washington Post” to that should read “Mark Kellner writes for the Washington Times.” Anyway, thanks for the link.
Actually, ALL of the iBook G4’s have Combo Drives, not just the top-end model.
luv my ibook
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I just bought a 933 for my girlfriend for Valentine’s day. Gave it to her early since she couldn’t wait. ;o)
Impressive little bugger. Definitely a zippy performer.
I can’t wait till the G5 Powerbooks come out so I can justify upgrading my Pismo G3/400. :o)
Bought my daughter an iBook for college – and I am glad I did. With the campus IT dept constantly telling the Windows users to get off the network everytime these viruses pop up, I would have been ticked buying a Windows machine she could only use as a stand alone.
As far as performance, it’s a G3/900, and runs just as fast as our home 2.4 Celeron.