buying powerbook

iWonder · iWonder #1 (**permalink**)

06-10-2005, 10:29 PM

hey yall, my dad saw my with my new iBook and he thought it was pretty cool with the desktop widgets and voice commands, etcs. so hes thinking of buying a powerbook. he says he'll use it for buisness. he might burn things though somehow i doubt that. do you think i should tell him to get the combodrive and an external drive (that i can use too =))? or just get it alltogether?

EDIT: so i went on babbling in that paragraph. main point, which one should i get?

PunkRockTuba · PunkRockTuba #2 (**permalink**)

06-10-2005, 11:40 PM

If it were me ide ask him how much he plans on burning. If he thinks hes going to burn a ton of stuff then it might be helpful to have the superdrive. But if he's only going to burn a few cds every now and then, then it might be helpful to have the combo drive and an external burner. So I guess it all depends on how much burning is actually going to be taking place. The plus side to the external is you could get a dual layer burner and that would be awesome. This isnt much insight, im sure the people on these boards will have some better opinions. I just think it depends on how much burning he is going to do. Hope this helps.

daughter_anna · daughter_anna #3 (**permalink**)

06-11-2005, 08:17 PM

yeah, it's gonna come down to how much burning he's going to do..

Dominion · Dominion #4 (**permalink**)

06-11-2005, 10:26 PM

Also does he have a PC counterpart for burning? I'm trying to weight that in my mind myself. I could get the combo drive and just use my PC to burn files, assuming I can transfer between the two

iWonder #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 09, 2005 Location: My world Posts: 632 Mac Specs: iBook 12" G4, 30 GB, 768 MB RAM. iPod 5G 30GB.	06-10-2005, 10:29 PM hey yall, my dad saw my with my new iBook and he thought it was pretty cool with the desktop widgets and voice commands, etcs. so hes thinking of buying a powerbook. he says he'll use it for buisness. he might burn things though somehow i doubt that. do you think i should tell him to get the combodrive and an external drive (that i can use too =))? or just get it alltogether? EDIT: so i went on babbling in that paragraph. main point, which one should i get? Last edited by iWonder; 06-10-2005 at 10:45 PM.
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PunkRockTuba #2 (permalink)
Member Since: May 27, 2005 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 975 Mac Specs: 17" MacBook Pro, 8GB iPhone	06-10-2005, 11:40 PM If it were me ide ask him how much he plans on burning. If he thinks hes going to burn a ton of stuff then it might be helpful to have the superdrive. But if he's only going to burn a few cds every now and then, then it might be helpful to have the combo drive and an external burner. So I guess it all depends on how much burning is actually going to be taking place. The plus side to the external is you could get a dual layer burner and that would be awesome. This isnt much insight, im sure the people on these boards will have some better opinions. I just think it depends on how much burning he is going to do. Hope this helps.
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Dominion #4 (permalink)
Member Since: May 19, 2005 Posts: 171	06-11-2005, 10:26 PM Also does he have a PC counterpart for burning? I'm trying to weight that in my mind myself. I could get the combo drive and just use my PC to burn files, assuming I can transfer between the two
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