Im seeing the ibook on John lewis and also the macbook which appears to have a quicker processor and the dual core one at that. Apart from that are there any reasons why a macbook is better than an ibook ? Im going to be buying a new lappie in the next week or so. Its either that or a windows toshiba. thanks for any input
well, the ibook is not in production anymore. it uses a PPC proc. the macbook uses an intel proc, and you can install windows on it, which makes it more versatile. i would get the macbook, because it is much more futureproof.
I seen it J pepper But im buying this through my business so i wont be paying for it and i can reclaim the vat I forgot about bootcamp , is the gpu on the macbook any cop though ?
that's probably the reason i'm selling it for a Mac Pro. I run an app called Aperture for photography post-processing and like a lot of Apple Software now, they call on the GPU directly and the GPU on the macbook just doesn't cut the mustard. I thought about going for a MBP, but after some serious thought, I realised I don't actuallt need a portable machine, I have one for work, but for my own personal machine, it's just a preference. What I really need is more power and that means a desktop. If you only doing normal office work and light photoshop, then a Macbook is perfect. I didn't realised how much power I would need until I started doing digital photography properly and working with 60+MB files with many layers, the MB just doesn't cut it.. ofcourse it can do it, just not as fast as I need.
Basically what J-Pepper said. The macbook as a great machine, except it has the integrated graphics. It is quite fast, except for anything that relies on a graphics card (photo/video editing, games, etc). But for general computing, it is a great deal, and seems really responive just browsing the web, word-processing, using itunes, etc.
