Buying a Laptop?

I want to purchase a Mac laptop. Im not new to Mac's. I had a white Macbook about a year ago, but had to sell it.

Im looking at the ibooks, but they are still pricey. We have a G4 tower that runs great, but the graphics arent very good. My daughter likes to play Nick Jr & other online games so I need something that has a decent graphics card. If that is possible in my price range?

I can only spend around $400.00. Since my price range is on the lower end, I think I am going to have to look at older mac laptops or a low priced PC based laptop?

Any suggestions? THanks

You can buy a 1.x Ghz eMac for less than $400.

And a 1 Ghz iBook G4 should not be much more than that.
If you can't find one for less than $400, then people are seriously inflating the price.

Online games rely on Adobe Flash, which runs really poorly on G4s. I remember having trouble running Flash even on a 1.25 GHz G4.

I'd recommend a netbook myself. They're cheap (most are under $400), they get good battery life, and they'll do fine for basic stuff like flash games.

Mama Luigi said:

Online games rely on Adobe Flash, which runs really poorly on G4s. I remember having trouble running Flash even on a 1.25 GHz G4.

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I've never had an issue with any G4 and Flash.

1.67 Ghz PowerBook
1.0 Ghz iBook
1.0 Ghz eMac
500 Mhz B&W G3 even ran fine.

D3v1L80Y said:

I've never had an issue with any G4 and Flash.

1.67 Ghz PowerBook
1.0 Ghz iBook
1.0 Ghz eMac
500 Mhz B&W G3 even ran fine.

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Flash games on my G4 required me to right click and drop the quality down to "low" for it to run at any speed other than "slide show."

Maybe old flash videos/games ran fine, but I tried a few that were maybe around 800x600 pixels in size a year or two ago and they ran terribly.

I have an iBook G4 and I would not recommend buying it for anything graphics related. Love the sucker, but to watch videos or anything... it's completely laggy even if I have nothing else open on the computer.