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I am a digital photographer and writer looking to travel. Will an iBook do it?
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Hey friends,
I have a g4 tower and monitor right now...just bought a plane ticke to Australia where I want to do a lot of travelling, photography, and writing. While I have a 40gig harddrive right now and 733mhz, 256ram...is it all too much?
All i really need is storage space for my photos, (old and new hopefully), itunes (5days worth) and photoshop, osx, canon software and word and email. Can this be done?
The resale value of my g4 and monitor is not enough to enable me to go for the 12" PowerBook I crave...will this downgrade hurt me much or I am rocking too much computer right now?
I'm new to all this...your input is much appreciated.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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What sort of Photoshop work are you looking to do on the iBook? intensive ?
All of the other apps you have mentioned will all run just fine on an iBook.
In regards to storage - if you get a combo unit you can always burn backups or store your images to CD - Plus watch the odd DVD if you really want to 
Oh yeah - welcome to Oz when you get here :-)
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I have a white 500 mhz ibook, with a 40 gig hard drive installed...its perfect for downloading my digital pics while I travel.
I've had a 1.42 duel powermac for 2 months now (love it) and a 400 mhz G4 before that, the ibook complements it perfectly.
I'd not want to work on my ibook in photoshop/imovie/etc but its great for just storing pics and using it on an airplane/traveling.
One thing: The new G4 12" powermacs are very slow..under 1 ghz or something like that, I think the ibooks are now at 900...my 500 mhz ibook is very sluggish using Jaguar.
I'd wait until Monday before buying though...something might happen that is announced that either drops prices more on the G4 powerbooks and even on the ibooks.
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I'd wait until Monday before buying though...something might happen that is announced that either drops prices more on the G4 powerbooks and even on the ibooks.
How do you know this? Is this insider info, or a hunch, or just a hope?
I really hope you're right...
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Why don't you just get a portable storage "tank" that accepts your memory cards (mainly CF Type I and II, Memory Stick, Smart Media, SD/MMC cards).
It's cheap and it uses normal notebook/desktop harddisks, and comes in Firewire/USB connectors (depending on which type you intend to get).
It's much cheaper than getting a new notebook... and it's better to wait now since WWDC is coming.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BrettOZ:
[B]What sort of Photoshop work are you looking to do on the iBook? intensive ?
All of the other apps you have mentioned will all run just fine on an iBook.
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Will Photoshop Elements work well on a 900ibook?
Don't need the full effects of Photoshop as I'm not a professional.
(Last edited by lj39; Jun 20, 2003 at 12:56 PM.
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Works just fine on an iBook (800). Sure, if you start doing heavy transforms on large images it's sluggish, but what do you expect!
I think if I decide to invest in Final Cut (Express) then I'll yearn for a G4, but Elements works fine. By the way, I'm not convinced I really want one, all that heat and less battery life. If we're really lucky IBM will get altivec going on the next revision of Sahara...
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Originally posted by chinese_fashion:
Hey friends,
I have a g4 tower and monitor right now...just bought a plane ticke to Australia where I want to do a lot of travelling, photography, and writing. While I have a 40gig harddrive right now and 733mhz, 256ram...is it all too much?
All i really need is storage space for my photos, (old and new hopefully), itunes (5days worth) and photoshop, osx, canon software and word and email. Can this be done?
The resale value of my g4 and monitor is not enough to enable me to go for the 12" PowerBook I crave...will this downgrade hurt me much or I am rocking too much computer right now?
I'm new to all this...your input is much appreciated.
The iBook certainly is powerful enough. However, you will find that OS X in general is snappier on G4 chips.
tooki
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I think the iBook will be fine for your needs. I have a Dual 1 GHZ and an iBook, and I find the iBook is a good replacement when I'm away from my Powermac.
I would suggest you max out the memory, and you pay the extra $50 to get the 60 gig hard drive. Other than, that, you should be good to go.
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14' 800 mhz iBook 30 gig and 256 SDRAM
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