[Elevin]

I was just wondering what the performance was like on a 12" ibook. Anybody tried this out yet? I'm about to get an apple laptop, and I had been set on a powerbook, but now I'm not sure again. Thanks for the info,

-Ezra

[CeRtiFiedSkitZo]

Originally posted by Elevin:
I was just wondering what the performance was like on a 12" ibook. Anybody tried this out yet? I'm about to get an apple laptop, and I had been set on a powerbook, but now I'm not sure again. Thanks for the info,

-Ezra

I have it installed on my 14" iBook G4 and it runs smoothly for me. But I also have my memory maxed out so I don't know how it'll run on a stock system.

[Klay2122]

I got a 14" G4 also but with stock ram and it ran ok...sometimes it slowed or stopped playing the track. But know I got max ram and it runs great, all thoughs little hangups are gone.

[James L]

Now, when you say runs great...

If I had a 4 minute song, with 3 built in loop tracks, a recorded bass track, a recorded rhythm guitar track, and a recorded lead guitar track... the 1GHZ 14" G4 iBook with 640MB of ram will run ok?

...any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

[dowNNshift]

woohoo! I'm back in the saddle again, after a year and a half mac-less I just got an iBook G4 800 MHz to pretty much just run iLife apps... so this leaves me to this question:

Can I run Garageband and iMovie safely and efficently on the stock hard drive and stock 256MB mem config? My last iBook died because of hard drive issues... so I am pariniod, but if yall have had success w/o investing in a fancy Lacie external, lemme know!

Thanks in advance!

[gigglebyte]

get more RAM and you will be happy...max it out for best performance... I have run garage band on my G3 700 with 640 and it runs great until I get more than 4 tracks or so and then it tells me I don't have a powerfull enough computer and stops on me...oh well but the G4's should be able to run it just fine...as for the fancy external drives...you can get a LaCie 120Gig for $169 so it isn't that bad

[just123]

I have an ibook 12" 800 with 640 MB RAM. When trying to play the example songs (copied to the harddrive) apple delivers with ilife, playback stucks and i get error, that my harddisk is to slow and i should put the cpu to maximum (not automatic). If i switch some tracks silent, playback works.

So if you really want to work with a lot of tracks, rather get a powerbook 15".

generally the speed of the ibook g4 is ok, but it could really be more. I only use it for internet and office, but with mail, safari, firebird and word open you need a lot of patience. With 256 MB RAM however, it is unacceptable - in that config, even my imac G3 500 with 320 MB Ram seemed faster if i ran two or more programs at once.

[finknottle]

I have the same problem with the supplied tracks in garage band with the Ram @ maximum.