05-22-2006, 02:14 AM

Hey Guys,

As some of you know, I currently own a 1Ghz 12" iBook G4. I ordered it with internal bluetooth, bumped the RAM to 768MB and installed a 80GB harddrive last year.

Should I sell my old reliable and upgrade to the Macbook?

If I sell now, I can probably still get 600-700€ for it on ebay. The Macbook I'm looking at will run me around €980 through Apple's on-campus store.

I'm figuring that it makes more sense economically speaking to upgrade now, rather than selling the iBook for half of what I can get now in a years time...

What do you guys think?

05-22-2006, 02:47 AM

wait for rev b

05-22-2006, 08:06 AM

I would keep the iBook. It sounds like all is going well and there really is not a pressing need to upgrade right now. Your iBook will give you a few good years yet. Sure, you might not net as much if you sell the iBook later, but you will have had your money's worth of it by then, so any money you make would be a return on your investment as I see it.

:black:

05-22-2006, 08:43 AM

In actual fact selling the iBook right now would be a bad move. There is a glut in the marketplace and the price has plumetted, I can now pick up a brand new 12" last rev iBook for £529—a drop of pretty much £180 in one week.

Wait a few more weeks if you really must sell up as the market price will stabilise a bit more when the market settles.

Apart from that fact, I think you should stick with the iBook if it's doing what you really need it to do anyway. Waiting another year will as has been said get more out of the iBook, and more apps will be Universal then that will run full throttle, most of the niggles will have been worked out and your iBook should still command a decent marketprice. Notebooks tend to drop in price steadily but they get to a certain sweet spot where the price holds itself quite well, and then begins to drop again after a period of stability.

Vicky

05-22-2006, 09:48 AM

I don't upgrade hardware until it fails to perform. My wife's 5 year old laptop has a dying screen, dead battery, broken keyboard, etc. etc. so it will be replaced. My 3 year old PC still runs fine and don't anticipate it completely dying anytime soon so even though I want to get a new Mac for myself as well I will probably have to wait a couple more years.

If the iBook does the job, keep it and replace in the future when it doesn't do the job anymore.

05-22-2006, 10:42 AM

I'm in the same predicament, I have an iBook G4, have only had it around 6 months and am wondering whether to upgrade. If I was to sell now, with educational discount i'd only be looking to spend an additional £150 (give or take) to upgrade to a machine 5x faster and a lot sexier all round.

*shrugs*

05-22-2006, 11:12 AM

All the things I have said apply Juco.

5 x faster, that would be Apple's marketing department digging your nails into your skin—in other words, it's not true except for the most basic benchmarking, and tests have borne out the fact that this is not a true reflection of performance.

In a mere 6-8 months we will see yet another speed bump to the new MacBooks, what then, sell out again to get the latest and greatest? Or perhaps—learn the true value of what you already have, and use it to its fullest until it sincerely cannot cope with what you are demanding from it—then consider the upgrade. Otherwise, you will spend all your time looking at the next best thing rather than actually making use of the Mac and doing wonderful things with it :flower:

I personally will not be getting a MacBook or whatever for some years yet and plan on running my PowerBook for as long as it will run.

Vicky

05-22-2006, 06:15 PM

Unless you really need all the extras, wait, at least until september.