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I Have The Money... But Will an iBook Do Me?
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<blockquote data-quote="snowdropper" data-source="post: 14013"><p>i'm in the same boat as you stew.</p><p></p><p>from the extensive research ive done, the ibook seems to be to be the perfect machine for what i want to do.</p><p>from the looks of it, you are doing mostly web/multimedia design, and minimal print work. for print, you would probably want a more powerful machine, i.e. the large photoshop files would be slow on the ibook.</p><p></p><p>i have test driven the ibook at an apple store, and it should be able to handle having all these apps open at once, if not more. expose is a great feature.</p><p></p><p>now that the ibook has a G4, these programs will run nicely. i would say from looking at the programs you want to use, max out the RAM. it will make the OS run smoother, and the apps, as they are all RAM hungry, will thank you for it.</p><p></p><p>as for the external monitor, the ibook is configured not to run external displays in spanning mode, they only mirror, and only at the max res of the ibook itself. so what you want to do is not possible out of the box. which annoys me, cos the vodeo card can definitely handle it. however, if you install the firmware hack on this page: <a href="http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html" target="_blank">http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html</a> then you can run the external monitor at whatever ma res the video card can handle, however i dont think you can run the ibook like this with the lid closed.</p><p></p><p>if you do decide on the ibook, let me know how you go, as i am looking at buying it for the same programs as you, im a multimedia design student.</p><p></p><p>cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="snowdropper, post: 14013"] i'm in the same boat as you stew. from the extensive research ive done, the ibook seems to be to be the perfect machine for what i want to do. from the looks of it, you are doing mostly web/multimedia design, and minimal print work. for print, you would probably want a more powerful machine, i.e. the large photoshop files would be slow on the ibook. i have test driven the ibook at an apple store, and it should be able to handle having all these apps open at once, if not more. expose is a great feature. now that the ibook has a G4, these programs will run nicely. i would say from looking at the programs you want to use, max out the RAM. it will make the OS run smoother, and the apps, as they are all RAM hungry, will thank you for it. as for the external monitor, the ibook is configured not to run external displays in spanning mode, they only mirror, and only at the max res of the ibook itself. so what you want to do is not possible out of the box. which annoys me, cos the vodeo card can definitely handle it. however, if you install the firmware hack on this page: [url]http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html[/url] then you can run the external monitor at whatever ma res the video card can handle, however i dont think you can run the ibook like this with the lid closed. if you do decide on the ibook, let me know how you go, as i am looking at buying it for the same programs as you, im a multimedia design student. cheers [/QUOTE]
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