[andreas_g4]

Obviously, everyone want's a Powerbook 17" and 12" as well as a Powermac 1.4 GHz with Cinema HD Display.

What I mean is: Is your system fun to use/productive to use?

[cpac]

my TiBook 500 does most everything I need it to do. I'd love a better graphics chip and a bit more speed, but I think I'll wait another year or so (who knows - if MacWhispers is right I might be able to get a 15" Aluminum Book w/ an IBM 970 chip inside...)

[Sage]

I'm satisfied with my crystal iBook (with a Logitech Elite keyboard and MX 500 mouse to use when in desktop mode ). Oh sure, I'd absolutely love to get my hands on a 17" PB, but there's no way that my family's current budget is going to allow that.

If I just had an AirPort card and Base Station (would be nice to surf the net on the couch), then I'd be set!

[andreas_g4]

New poll:

Who is too stupid to post in the correct forum?

A: andreas_g4
B: andreas_g4
C: andreas_g4

tick...tock...tick...tock...

YOU ARE RIGHT! andreas_g4 is!


This should have been in the lounge, sorry.

[fireside]

it works for me, but i would like a new computer.

[Cory Bauer]

-Original iMac G4 800Mhz, 15" LCD, Superdrive-

My computer functions extremely well, but the 1024x768 limit of my 15" is killing me. I wish they'd have offered a 17" version originally when I got it. I have yet to pay my Apple loan off (or even come close for that matter), but even if it was paid for I couldn't justify purchasing a new machine until at least next January. My theory is that $1,000 buys you a year, and since my Superdrive iMac was $1,800 I've got to keep using it for two years before I can replace it

[dividend]

ti550, 512 mb ram

my TiBook works like a charm, and even after 1 1/2 years of usage, I can still get out 4 hours of battery with iTunes playing. Pretty good. The only bad thing is the Graphicchip that is not good enought for Warcraft 3 (or W3 is not good enought for my TiBook!). I don't use imovie or anyting fancy...

[andreas_g4]

Originally posted by dividend:
ti550, 512 mb ram

my TiBook works like a charm, and even after 1 1/2 years of usage, I can still get out 4 hours of battery with iTunes playing. Pretty good. The only bad thing is the Graphicchip that is not good enought for Warcraft 3 (or W3 is not good enought for my TiBook!). I don't use imovie or anyting fancy...

I had a 500 MHz Titanium for about a 9 months and I noticed that the screen went quite a bit dimmer over time. That was the reason I sold it. Is your screen as bright as it was at first?

[danbrew]

Yeah, they rock.

DP 1ghz machine with 22" ACD
Ti/500

Would be nice to have the latest and greatest - it's pretty easy to fall behind in this stay current game.

Funny, although I've had more Windows machines over the years (since my first Mac in 1985), I've spend more money on Apple hardware than Windows hardware. Go figure.

Mac128 - $3000
G4/Cube & Monitor - $2500
DP 1ghz & ACD - $6000
Ti/500 - $3500
Total - $15,000

Gateway 466 - $2500
Sony Viao - $2500
Compaq Something or another - $1700
Dell with nice LCD - $2500
HP with Monitor - $2000
Compaq Laptop - $1500
Total - $12,700

[cenutrio]

I am a proud 400 TiBook owner that admires how his old pal does not turn his back to the tasks he is asked for. Although, sometimes may take a while

[danbrew]

Originally posted by andreas_g4:
I had a 500 MHz Titanium for about a 9 months and I noticed that the screen went quite a bit dimmer over time. That was the reason I sold it. Is your screen as bright as it was at first?

Actually, seems to be just fine.

[chris v]

You'll take my Cube when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

I might buy it a 1gz upgrade one of these days, though.

CV

[ThisGuy]

i love my iBook 800, but i have been spoiled by a Dual 1.42 mhz at work.

[dragonbong]

Tibook 867 30gb hd, 512 ram. Would have like to get the 1ghz but insurance company would only give me this one lol, had a 500 b/4 so sitll better than b/4. Pretty satisfied but will see what happens if apple decides to put out a g5.

[DeathMan]

Originally posted by ThisGuy:
i love my iBook 800, but i have been spoiled by a Dual 1.42 mhz at work.

Don't you hate that? I had a iBook 500 for a while and at the time was working on dual 500s at work. Definately made it hard to do anything on the iBook other than write code (fortuantely thats what I had the iBook for).

I've got parity now at work and home, and though the video card could be a bit faster, I'm satisfied with everything I have to do.

One thing that could be better is FCP doesn't scrub very fast when you try to arrow through unredered sections to kind of see how things are going. other that things are good.

[andreas_g4]

Originally posted by DeathMan:
I've got parity now at work and home, and though the video card could be a bit faster, I'm satisfied with everything I have to do.

So those bastards took the dual away and got an iBook 500 for you to work on?

That's hard...

[TheIceMan]

Originally posted by andreas_g4:
Obviously, everyone want's a Powerbook 17" and 12" as well as a Powermac 1.4 GHz with Cinema HD Display.

What I mean is: Is your system fun to use/productive to use?

Actually, I am very very happy with my 15" Powerbook. The screen is the perfect size and it's so easy to pack up and go. Right now, portability is key for me. So I don't want a 17", 12" or the PowerMac. Maybe just an Aluminum 15".

[Evan DiBiase]

Originally posted by andreas_g4:
Obviously, everyone want's a Powerbook 17" and 12" as well as a Powermac 1.4 GHz with Cinema HD Display.

What I mean is: Is your system fun to use/productive to use?

My iBook's a 500MHz 2001 model with 384MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive. It's okay for basic mail reading and web browsing, but I find it wholly inadequate for anything else that I'd be interested in doing.

To wit:

• Java development isn't pleasant. My IDE of choice, IntelliJ's IDEA, runs just under tolerably on my machine with Java 1.4.1, and actually running the program that I'm developing makes things considerably worse.
• Working with HTML isn't much better. A resolution of 1024x768 means that I can only reasonably display two BBEdit windows side-by-side at a time, and layering a Safari or Mozilla window (or set of windows) on top of that results in cluttered havoc.

I use a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM at work, and it's fast enough to do everything that I need to do, but every operating system other than OS X makes me want to wipe the drive and install something else every few weeks, just from the sheer ickiness. (There are other, more well-defined reasons, but I'm hoping to consolidate them into a post on my weblog in the next few days instead of ranting something half-baked to the MacNN forums.)

The short of it is that I feel stuck. I'd be okay using my iBook for the trivial, recreational things I mentioned at the beginning of this post, but, for better or worse, I have more serious work that I need to get done. Not only that, but even more complicated, trivial, things, like playing MP3s while web browsing and using iChat to keep up several conversations, is enough to bring the responsiveness of my iBook down to several seconds for interactive things like typing and switching windows.

On the other hand, of course, all of these technical issues would be solved if I just built an x86 machine and stuck Linux or Windows XP Professional on it, but then I'd end up hating the user experience and would turn myself into an OS Sisyphus, which isn't quite where I'd like to be.

Complicating all of this is that I'm going to start college in the fall, and I'd like to have a machine picked out by then. I'm holding out for a faster (PPC970?) Mac, but there's only so long that I can practically wait.

[jokell82]

Fully satisfied with my 12" iBook 700 Combo... Love it.

[xtal]

Fully satisfied.

iBook 800.

[snerdini]

Originally posted by xtal:
Fully satisfied.

iBook 800.

Ditto.

[Appleman]

My good old Ti500 is still doing great. Still fast enough for general stuff.

Only the graphics chip is ****, wait for another year or so when the PowerBook is equiped with something like 970 and better graphs than the current 17".

By that time (May 2004) my AppleCare is finished.
A new Mac every 3 years is ok.
A new Mac every month would be better

And yes, I lately have the impression the brightness of the screen gets lower, but maybe my eyes get older

[ARENA]

I totally satisfied with my Ghz TiBook!

[andreas_g4]

Originally posted by Appleman:
And yes, I lately have the impression the brightness of the screen gets lower, but maybe my eyes get older

No, it's the screen. But you have Apple Care, so it should be fine. I didn't have Apple Care, so I sold it before it was too late.
(I recently heared from the guy who bought it that the screen is still fine)

[mactechie]

iMac Graphite 600MHz 768MB RAM
iBook 500MHz 640RAM
AirPort Extreme base station, airport 128 cards.

I'm very happy with my Macs, both are a little older, but plugging away without the slightest problems. Since I switched to Mac OS X (10.0, up to 10.2.4 now) I have had one crash: Animating a card with several thousand polygons with Coral RAVE.
CPU overloaded. OK this shows the limitations of the G3, I wouldn't dream of running FCP etc on either machine, but all the rest: no worries. one crash in 2 years between 2 machines, can't get much more stable than that, network games (even Giants, run fine).
When I have the money, I will upgrade to the top model, with the pro video and DVD software, but in the meantime I have that at work. The machines simply work, and work well. What more do you want?

[nobitacu]

I'm very happy right now with where Mac is at.

Ming

[dampeoples]

Of course I'd like more speed, but the Mac's I have work nicely

[designbc]

Originally posted by andreas_g4:
Obviously, everyone want's a Powerbook 17" and 12" as well as a Powermac 1.4 GHz with Cinema HD Display.

WRONG. I DO NOT WANT A 17" NOR A 12". My 15" Ti PB is PERFECT!!!

[NeXTLoop]

I currently have a 600Mhz iBook. It works ok, but only has 8MB of VRAM. Plus its only a 20G HD, which is starting to feel a little cramp. With all the work I do with PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, REALbasic, etc, my next computer is going to be either the 15" or 17" PowerBook. Hope to purchase it in the next couple of months.

[Thain Esh Kelch]

G4 400 AGP Radeon with 512 mb ram...

Does everyday jobs very good, but is painfully slow in Photoshop and most newer games...

And since im a gamer im looking foreward to a 970 Powermac with 8x AGP Radeon 9700..

[Edit:] Painfully slow in Photoshop on 10.2. OS9 PS runs like a charm. (Go figure)

[dividend]

""I had a 500 MHz Titanium for about a 9 months and I noticed that the screen went quite a bit dimmer over time. That was the reason I sold it. Is your screen as bright as it was at first?""

Well, Mine is the Ti 550, so Apple might have done something with the screen which makes it different from yours. But honestly, I can not recall what the screen was over a year ago, I am not complaing about the screen at all. It is fine and bright and nothing wrong with it at all. The only thing is the graphics chip for W3, but I trust that is W3 to blame more than the chip (16 mb is not that much thouh).

I added 256 mb ram more, and a 40 GB HD. Of course I would have wanted built-in Bluetooth, quite annoying with a dongle - but luckily my Ti has IR and it works fine with my t68i, I really only need blueooth for iSync, which I do at home anyway.

I am quite a modest user so I could easily do with a G3, but I wanted to screen, 12' is too small for me for a main and only computer. Speed is not an issue really (doesn't matter if ripping takes 5 minutes longer or not).

[guardianx]

no i hate this pos.... i'm going to sell this sh1t off ebay and get myself a real machine with powers and performace i'm gettting myself a p4 3.0 gig with hyper threading........

[Jerommeke]

Hmm, I wouldn't say no to a new one. This one is sluggish sometimes, especially with graphics, etc. But I guess it's good for now.

[dfiler]

Shouldn't my dual 450 seem slow by now? Funny thing is, it doesn't. My SE got slow real quick; as did my LCII, quadra 610, and PowerBase180. Maybe I'm just getting old...

[hayesk]

I have a QuickSilver 733 with 384MB RAM that I am completely satisfied with.

I have an iBook 466 (Graphite) with 320MB RAM that I am almost completely satisfied with. All I want is a 1024x768 screen for it. I wonder if I can swap out the 800x600?

[mdc]

loving my iBook 800.

[Oneota]

My G4/400 Gigabit is starting to show its age. Assuming I get a job before I graduate in June, I'll be replacing it this summer with whatever spectacular new hardware comes out (hopefully featuring a certain chip from IBM).

My beige G3/266 tower is doing its job as a web/mail/ftp/etc server, but I'd be a lot happier with it if I could install my G3/400 ZIF upgrade (from OWC) without the darn thing overheating and hard-freezing all the time.

I'll probably retire the beige G3 when I get my new tower this summer, and make my Gigabit the new server in its place.

[Peter]

12" 700 Combo
Needs more ram, but that is easy, perfectly happy.

[gorickey]

TiBook 667 DVI, no plans on changing for awhile...very happy.

[Appleman]

I remember very well when I bought the very first iMac with a whopping 233 MHz which was going to replace the aging LC (25 MHz?).

That really was progression! Such a speedbump!

So I wait until the four-processor PowerBook comes out, and just love my Ti500 and iMac Bondi Blue (and my LC...)

[mark9939]

1 GHz Power Mac (FW800)
256 MB RAM (I desprately need more RAM... it feels more sluggish at times then my iBook 600 w/ 640 MB did)
17" 6 year old generic CRT @ 1280x1024. (After RAM, I need a LCD, preferably a 20" Cinema , for small print, I have to lower the resolution just to read it )

Other then those two things, I LOVE my new Power Mac, and I'm keeping it until at least the 970's first or second revision.

[Hornet]

I am totally satisfied with my 3 week old Titanium 1ghz SD It really is an incredible machine, such a step above my G4/466, not to mention its uber portability. The 17" is just too huge for my needs, and the 12" display would make it nigh on impossible to run what I run (maya and FCP), so the 15" was perfect

Now all I have to do is get a netgear MR814 wireless router and a logitech MX500... and a bag to put my laptop in and everything is sweet. Portability rocks, long live the titanium!

[Kenneth]

My 46-day old DP 1.25Ghz (FW800) and 17" studio display work beautifully for me.

I do some FinalCutPro stuff on it, but mainly web publishing and web browsing as well as college work.

[stew]

I am slightly disappointed with my new 800 iBook. Its harddrive is louder than the one in my previous 600 iBook and the fan goes on (it never went on in the 600). Despite QuartzGL, OS X is still fscking slow.

[kovacs]

Fully satisfied with my iMac 500, iMac 800, DP 450 and Lime iBook 366 The only one that I would like to replace is the iBook because the screen is too small an it's a little bit slow for watching DiVX movies.. ooh and the hard disk is too small for storing all those movies. The iMac 500 is by far the most stable, the newer iMac 800 seems to be less stable.