[jbrjake]

I'm seriously considering an iBook to replace my aging and damaged Titanium PB. I used to have a 2400, and the 12" iBook reminds me of it. I can deal with the reduction from a resolution of 1152x768 to 1024x768. I'm near-sighted, so I won't need to squint at the small 12" screen, either. Having a laptop that's actually portable would be real nice.

Despite all that, there's the top-of-the-line 14" iBook, with a 1.2ghz processor. Is the 200 mhz worth the cost in money and weight? Is there anything else special about the 'book I'm missing that might justify it, like a faster bus or something? I was already planning on BTOing a 60gig hd and airport...

[MacGallant]

Originally posted by jbrjake:
I'm seriously considering an iBook to replace my aging and damaged Titanium PB. I used to have a 2400, and the 12" iBook reminds me of it. I can deal with the reduction from a resolution of 1152x768 to 1024x768. I'm near-sighted, so I won't need to squint at the small 12" screen, either. Having a laptop that's actually portable would be real nice.

Despite all that, there's the top-of-the-line 14" iBook, with a 1.2ghz processor. Is the 200 mhz worth the cost in money and weight? Is there anything else special about the 'book I'm missing that might justify it, like a faster bus or something? I was already planning on BTOing a 60gig hd and airport...

Here's 1 difference between the 12 inch vs. the 14 inch iBook besides the speed of the cpu:

The 12 incher has a battery with a 5 hour max (Apple Estimated) battery life, while the 14 incher has a larger battery with a 6 hour max (Apple Estimated) Battery life.

[macaddict0001]

Originally posted by MacGallant:
Here's 1 difference between the 12 inch vs. the 14 inch iBook besides the speed of the cpu:

The 12 incher has a battery with a 5 hour max (Apple Estimated) battery life, while the 14 incher has a larger battery with a 6 hour max (Apple Estimated) Battery life.

no they have the same battery life as shown here

as for which one you should get you should get the 12 inch because portability seems to be a concern and everything except processor speed is the same, although 200 megahertz won't make a noticable difference. The only other difference is screen size and it sounds like that won't be a problem.

[MacGallant]

Originally posted by macaddict0001:
no they have the same battery life as shown here

as for which one you should get you should get the 12 inch because portability seems to be a concern and everything except processor speed is the same, although 200 megahertz won't make a noticable difference. The only other difference is screen size and it sounds like that won't be a problem.

I stand corrected. But as I recall during the early days of the g3 icebook era, Apple's On line Store stated that the 14 inch iBook had a max life of 6 hrs, while the 12 inch iBook had a max of 5 hrs. I guess things changed since then.

[Nodnarb]

While the 12 inch is obviously smaller, the 14 inch is not hard to carry around. I toss mine in a backpack, and it's so light and everything I barely know it's there. I don't see where you'd need to carry a 12 inch that the 14 inch couldn't go just as easily.
But if you are worried abot the 1 ghz vz. the 1.2 ghz, I'd go with the 1. I was at the same delema when I was getting mine, but I decided the price difference was just to much for 200 mhz.

[jnrjr79]

Well, one thing worth noting is the availability of upgrading to a Superdrive in either of the 14'' models while only a combo drive is available on the 12''.

[macaddict0001]

if you don't need a suerdrive that doesn't make a difference and unless you make movies you can do without it. the only thing is that dvds can hold a little over six and a half times as much as cds but they burn slower, and they can't be recorded over or if you don't fill them up you can't easily record more later and if yo uhave data you don't want to be read you hav to break the disk to get rid of it. so its really up to you