LisaJill Posted June 1, 2004 Posted June 1, 2004 Well, I wanted to thank the huge amount of people that came forth and made suggestions for a notebook for when I head up north to Smith. In the end, after much consideration, I decided on the 1.5Ghz SuperDrive Powerbook G4 15". Just thought I'd update all of you that are waiting, breath held, to hear my decision... er - I hope that's noone, but anyway. *grins* Ordering it in a few days... my first mac, I'm so excited! Quote
Ninepatch Posted June 1, 2004 Posted June 1, 2004 New toys are very cool - have fun girl! Thumbs Up Quote
borfast Posted June 1, 2004 Posted June 1, 2004 Yep, new toys are pretty cool and I sure would like to have one of those 17" PowerMacs But the price tag..... I'm going to buy a notebook myself this week. Athlon 64 2800 MHz, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB HDD, DVD-+R/-+RW (also burns CDs, of course), 15.4 WideScreen TFT display, ATI Radeon 9700 128 MB VRAM, Wireless card 54 Mbit/s (IEEE 802.11g), wired LAN (10/100 Mbps) built-in, V.90 56K modem built-in, firewire port, irda port and memory card reader that reads SecureDigital Card, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Compact Flash Type I, Compact Flash Type II, IBM Microdrive. All this for 1499 Euro (1,835.12 USD), which is one heck of a price here in portugal. Quote
Bunni Posted June 1, 2004 Posted June 1, 2004 Bunni loves new toys! Hope to hear all about performance and stuff! Stuff? Ok, so I'm not up on my technical jargon. Quote
Ninepatch Posted June 1, 2004 Posted June 1, 2004 New toys for Raul, too - very cool! Have fun Raul! Quote
dsdemmin Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 Raul: I just bought a new notebook with WSXGA 15.4 inch screen and to tell you the truth the screen bugs me a bit... not the right proportions. I just got it last week and maybe I will get used to it but right now I would recommend against the 'width'. Just a thought. Quote
LisaJill Posted June 2, 2004 Author Posted June 2, 2004 This is what I ended up buying: * PowerBook 1.5GHz (15.2” TFT) * 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 with 128MB Graphics Memory * 512MB DDR333 SDRAM - 2x256 SO-DIMMs * 80GB Ultra ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm * SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) * AirPort Extreme Card * Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English * iSight * Office 2004 for Mac - Student and Teacher Edition All for the bargain basement price of $2,881.39. 3-5 days shipping and I shall have it. Can't wait. Quote
Head Guru Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 Yep, new toys are pretty cool and I sure would like to have one of those 17" PowerMacs But the price tag..... I'm going to buy a notebook myself this week. Athlon 64 2800 MHz, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB HDD, DVD-+R/-+RW (also burns CDs, of course), 15.4 WideScreen TFT display, ATI Radeon 9700 128 MB VRAM, Wireless card 54 Mbit/s (IEEE 802.11g), wired LAN (10/100 Mbps) built-in, V.90 56K modem built-in, firewire port, irda port and memory card reader that reads SecureDigital Card, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Compact Flash Type I, Compact Flash Type II, IBM Microdrive. All this for 1499 Euro (1,835.12 USD), which is one heck of a price here in portugal. Sounds like a emachine. I personally own two emachine notebooks and a desktop. The new emachines M6809 notebook is a killer. AMD 64 is awesome for gaming and the ATI 9600 backs up the processing speed. I pulled the 4500 RPM harddrive out and replaced it with a Hitachi 7200 RPM 60GB Drive. Man it really cranks. $1399 after rebates puts the M6809 far ahead of the rest. I would also suggest Sager Midern Notebooks. Awesome value for the money. Quote
borfast Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 (edited) Scott, the wide screen is one of my fears, too. But I think I'll get used to it. Bill, I'm looking at those two websites right now. They seem to have some pretty good stuff... I wonder how easily I could get one of those into Portugal... Edited June 3, 2004 by TCH-Raul Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 I have a friend that is on his third laptop from Sager. He loves them. He tried the wide screen and sent it back. Couldn't get used to it. Quote
borfast Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 And I just gave up on that AMD 64. It sure was a great deal but I guess I was letting myself go with the emotion. I don't really need a laptop computer. Well, it would be really useful but not useful enough for me to spend 1500 Euros to buy it. I prefer to keep my money and buy a better one when I really need it Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 AMD 64 is awesome for gaming Bill is a game-person? Quote
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