[BigCanoe]

I find I never take my Ti anywhere, its wasted on me. I still love the Mac experience, so I am thinking of "downgrading" to an iMac, and pocketing the extra change.

Would I find much performance degredation going from an 800 Ti to an 800 iMac, same amount of RAM?

Do you think trading is more risky than just selling the Ti and buying an iMac?

Thanks,
BC

[seanyepez]

The iMac is going to feel slightly slower. It doesn't have L3 cache. Also, the 15-inch iMac's screen will feel cramped. The 17-inch screen will be perfect, though. Also, any 800-megahertz iMac is worth less than your PowerBook. Instead of trading your PowerBook for an iMac, sell your TiBook and use the money you get for it to buy an iMac.

[CheesePuff]

I would definitely get the 1 GHz 17" iMac. It has a faster system bus, DDR RAM (not like it matters anyway) and of course, its 200 MHz faster. This way it will feel just as fast, and probably in some ways faster then your TiBook.

[AssassyN]

Originally posted by CheesePuff:
I would definitely get the 1 GHz 17" iMac. It has a faster system bus, DDR RAM (not like it matters anyway) and of course, its 200 MHz faster. This way it will feel just as fast, and probably in some ways faster then your TiBook.

Exactly. If you're sure you can give up the mobility, get the new 17" iMac. You won't end up paying much more for the trade-off price wise, but you'll get a lot more of a machine. It's faster, the screen is bigger, it's uses DDR RAM and a faster system bus, etc. If you're set on selling your TiBook for a desktop system, definitely get the 17" iMac. Good luck w/ your decision!

[mrmister]

I'm with the group--get the 17" 1Ghz iMac, and then it won't feel like a downgrade. You'll love the screen real estate.

[BigCanoe]

So whats the best way to sell the Powerbook? I wonder if Smalldog or someone else would trade me

[inEarNest]

Originally posted by BigCanoe:
So whats the best way to sell the Powerbook? I wonder if Smalldog or someone else would trade me

It looks like you've made your decision already, but if it helps to reassure, I have a TiGigabook, and by brother has a 1Ghz 17" iMac with 1/2 the ram, and, although I can tell when I'm on his, the difference (IMO and in the things I do with it) is negligible. Go with the iMac. More HD, and the screens are supa-dope.

-sae

[Maneki Neko]

I'm doing this as we speak. Going from a Ti 500 to a 1 GHz 17" imac.

It should be here on Thursday.

[Miles Davis]

Originally posted by BigCanoe:
So whats the best way to sell the Powerbook? I wonder if Smalldog or someone else would trade me

I've sent you an email concerning a trade.

[jpyrett]

I have been using an Imac G4 700 MHZ at the library nightly. I am about 40mins into a losing game of GNU Chess and the machine starts spinning in deadlock, busy mode. There was no way to close the process using terminal or process viewer or shortcut key.

I think there is a bug in the chess program because it was working fine until it ran out of time to move or maybe because I recalibrated the display whie it was thinking.

Anyways, from my observations with different imacs in the lab.. They are interesting machines. They are interesting becuase they are slow, but they are cool. For example, I noticed last night, the IMac is pretty heavy, the cd-rom drives comes out of the bay like a mother, and the 15" screen is pretty dang big. (THere are no 17" inchers there).

I have ran some tests such as the demo Java2 SwingSet applet, the Caffiene Mark 3.0, and the usual process viewer and top. Im sorry but the process viewer on OS X is lame compared to windows task manager or the Performance app under Admin tools!!

Yeah, these run slow as a P2. Being in the lab, cant install any games on it, so cant give you a real world review of any games.

** There is a huge difference between the machines that have 10.1 and 10.2. There is a machine with 10.2 that has 128 MB ram that is noticebly quicker than a 640MB RAM 10.1 machine with equal CPU speed. *** So heres to 10.3!! I am actually waiting to buy a powerbook for 4 reasons.

1) Want a 1.25+ powerbook (1 ghz still too slow for my java IDEs).

2) Feel like Apple will charge money for the 10.3 upgrade and dont
feel like paying extra money after spending $2999+ for this laptop.

3) Want a powerbook that has a better video card in it. On ati.com or
nvidia.com, the current powerbook models all have very old
video chipsets. The Radeon 9000 is a couple chips behind. THink
there is a Radeon 9600 Mobile chip in production now. There are
a couple of NVidia chips such as 4600 Go or 4200 Go or the new
GeForce FX Go.
4) Waiting to see what they announce in June WWDC regarding the
970s.

The first time I used the G4 700 Imac in the library, it sucked really bad, it even had 640 MB of ram, but think the machine just needed rebooted (lab computer) and that write restrictions on the hard drive hampered performance and the machine had OS X 10.1 which sucks.

[eddiecatflap]

..i've got both and they both rock 100%..

[RMXO]

im in the same boat as you. im thinking of trading my 800 DVI for a 12" PB or 17" iMac. anyone know any good sites besides www.powerbookcentral.com to find ppl that are willing to trade?

[BigCanoe]

Thanks for the replys, I am really only considering 17" iMacs at this time. I have posted on PowerBook Central with more details:

PowerBook Central

[ASIMO]

Originally posted by BigCanoe:
Thanks for the replys, I am really only considering 17" iBooks at this time. I have posted on PowerBook Central with more details:

PowerBook Central

Sweet. 17" iBooks. Gonna cannibalize those rusty 17" aluminum PowerBooks faster than you can say...Wait a minute. Something's fishy.

[Patcarla]

Originally posted by BigCanoe:
Thanks for the replys, I am really only considering 17" iMacs at this time. I have posted on PowerBook Central with more details:

PowerBook Central

And did you get any people interested ?? just curious..

[BigCanoe]

Some people wanted to buy it, or trade their 15" iMac or Powermac for it, but I haven't found a deal I wish to pursue yet.