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Please advise [my first mac]
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Hi
I have good offer to buy 800Mhz iBook with 128MB RAM, 30GB HDD, 32MB ATi Radeon in perfectly good condition.
Can you tell me two things
1. Is this enough for normal work with OS X (browsing internet, playing music, maybe movies etc) + sometimes I will use photoshop, illustrator and flash [not in the same time of course  ] ?
2. Guy that sells it says that it has only cd-rom drive, not combo. My friend tells me he thinks that models can't have only cd, they must have combo. I will go to see that mac tomorrow or day after tomorrow, but untill then, does anybody knows are there 800Mhz iBook models with only cd rom or that guy is wrong?
Thank You
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: NY, NY
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Hi there,
1. That machine will need more RAM, period. You should add 512 MB .
2. Yes, there are "CD-only" iBooks. They are a special configuration for the educational market.
I have that model as our "lab laptop" . It came with 256 MB RAM and I added 512. It is by no meanss a speed demon, but it has handled everything we have thrown at it.
It was my introduction to the Mac world.
Good luck,
JT
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Quad 2.5 Ghz G5 7GB RAM + 7800GT
15" MBP 2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 RPM HDD
G4 DA 1.2 Ghz 1.5 GB RAM + 4 HDD (fileserver)
G4 Cube 800MHz , Radeon 7000, 1.5 GB RAM
<not bad for a relatively new switcher...>
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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thanks
because i'm new to mac world, can you tell me can I use PC memory with this iBook or not, because PC memory here is so much cheaper and easier to find
if yes, what type of memory [sd ram? how much pins etc etc]
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Davis, California
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yep, Macs and PCs use the same kind of ram. You're looking for DDR 200-pin PC 2100 SDRAM. www.newegg.com seems to have good prices.
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iBook 14" 1.33 GHz - 768 MB ram - 80 GB Hard Drive - Bluetooth - and my fav, Airport
Powermac G4 533 MHz - 640 MB ram - Radeon 8500 graphics card - 40 GB hard drive - 52x CDRW drive - FOR SALE : )
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Try RamSeeker. They track RAM prices. You could also use my favorite price seeking website, PriceWatch
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS]"Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free"
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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great, thanks guys
This was a lot of help for me
Bye
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