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Apple iBook Laptop 14" M9419LL/A (1.25-GHz PowerPC G4, 256 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) | List Price: $1,299.99
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Platform: Mac OS X
Brand: Apple
Binding: Personal Computers
Warranty: 1 year warranty
WONDERFUL!! [Posted on 2004-07-31]
I got this laptop two days ago and I cant get my hands off it. It has so many nifty and useful programs, its amazing. Truly I cant believe I didnt swtich from Windows to Mac sooner. It is so much more smoother, and truly a pleasent experiance. I have been a long Windows user, and I was a little skeptic of Macintoshs. I mean Macs arent the cheapest, and there are plenty of cheap Windows based laptops, but there is a reason why they are cheap! Because they are poorly made and run only average. While Macs are wonderfully built and run smooth. Its like a Ferrari compared to a Volkswagen. Its a wonderful working system. Not to mention sexy!!!
Faulty iBook [Posted on 2004-08-02]
This is my fifth Mac laptop and a problem that I had with the second one I owned has made a surprising comeback.
The cursor jumps around the page while you are typing, so that you can be in the middle of the fourth line of text and all of sudden the cursor has 'jumped up to the middle of the secondline.
I'm a decent typist, but this is an impossible situation. I can't type more than aline or two without it happening, and as one can imagine, it's a huge pain. I'm not talking about a typo here there but an entire train of thought broken up and inserted into a previous line.
Don't buy this model until they fix it. You can get an idea about this from the Apple Support discussion pages. I'm not the only one this has happened to, and you'll be able to track what Apple is doing to address the issue through the discussions.
It's a wonderful product in general, but wait until this bug is fixed.
Aesthetic Wonder [Posted on 2004-08-04]
I bought this laptop in May of 2004 to use in college. Before deciding upon on which computer, I researched for a very long time. I spent hours looking at the Gateway, Toshiba, Sony, Apple, and even Dell websites. It came down to an Apple iBook or a Gateway. I went with the iBook and I've never looked back.
I couldn't wait to get home and set it up, which was very simple to do: plug it into the wall and click a few buttons. That's it.
The first thing that astounded me was the bright screen and the aesthetics of it all (exterior, desktop, icons). It's beautiful. When I look at the other laptops my family has, they're all bulky looking, black, and with a rough-ish texture. My iBook is sleek, smooth, and white as ever. The Apple logo on the top lights up when it's turned on!
Mac OS X Panther is wonderful. It's so easy to use and navigate through. There is a dock on the bottom on my desktop (which can be hidden, minimized, enlarged, moved to left or right) that holds my most used applications and the ones I have minimized. The applications can be removed from the dock or added to it by click and drag. Apple makes it easy to locate files within the hard drive through a browser-like window. The first time I plugged in my digital camera, it automatically opened iPhoto and asked if I wanted to import the photographs. No software was necessary. iPhoto is a great, easy-to-use application alongside iChat, Mail, Safari, Stickies, iMovie, iCal, and Sherlock. With Mail, I have configured my .Mac account and school account so that when I open it, it checks both mailboxes for me. Safari surpasses Internet Explorer in unthinkable ways, notably it's bookmarking features and on-site Google search bar. Sherlock is an investigative program that I use to look up movie showtimes. I typed in my postal zip code and it listed the nearby theatres with the titles of movies playing and their showtimes. When I chose a film, it brought up a summary, rating, the poster, cast list, and most of the time the movie trailer. Sherlock also has an image search and eBay search. Also, and I use this a lot the F9 and F11 (by default) keys help you to see which windows you currently have opened and clear them from your view to make your desktop visible, which is a great feature when you have many applications running.
Because I run about three to four applications at a time, I upgraded the memory. It came with 256MB RAM, but I added a stick of 512 MB. I stronly recommend an upgrade of at least 256 MB.
I've been using iTunes like crazy. I have an iPod that I was first using with my old Windows PC, but when I plugged it into the iBook everything came up great. I had to find software to get the songs from my iPod to my iBook, but there are great freeware websites out there (Version Tracker). The speakers are okay, I actually have my old Boston speakers from the Windows PC hooked up, and volume control is made easy with the keyboard buttons.
One thing I absolutely love is the wireless feature. There is an integrated Airport card and I can walk throughout the house and be connected to the Internet. And what is great about using the iBook wirelessly is it's long battery life. I can use it for about six hours without getting out the power adapter.
I couldn't be happier with the iBook. I'm still learning new things, and continually being amazed.
iBrilliant! [Posted on 2004-10-09]
Apple have really outdone themselves with this unit. It is about the most capable laptop i have seen in its price range or many ones above it!
The system runs SILENT. u cant even hear the harddrive at all
Panther, as expected from Mac, a rock solid OS and by far the best looking one out there
The 1.07GHz PPC processor rons at the equivalence of a 2.5-3GHz processor. The system plays UT2004 and Battlefield better than id imagine seeing on any laptop let alone one as small as this
i have dragged the system through so much abuse in my backpack but it remains to operate completely normally and quickly.
but the best thing of all, the BATTERY LIFE! it runs about 5 hours of photoshop, or enough to watch the Austin powers DVD twice with sum spare time for special features... i love it!
its simply the best laptop i have ever used and ever will for a long time
Better than a PC [Posted on 2005-02-25]
Pros: Right out of the box, this speedy notebook works flawlessly. I've been using it 3 months and it hasn't crashed once (Try going 3 hours on a Windows system w/o trouble!). It is pricey, HOWEVER, what good is a cheaper PC-based notebook if you have to worry about it's dependability.
Cons: The shiny plastic scratches easily.
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