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<blockquote data-quote="Michaelosaur" data-source="post: 43002"><p>Dear all,</p><p> </p><p>I am the novice to the Mac powerbook G4 but I plan to buy one. Without experience and time, I would like to ask if anyone knew the following issues which actually are the questions I asked myself for shifting myself from my adroit experience in windows-based system to Mac OS X world. Honestly I do not want to heat up the debat on the use of Windows vs Mac OS X but as a practicable guy, I have to ask for more information from expertises like you:</p><p> </p><p>(1) Performance: How fast and responsive to a powerbook let say, alumbook M9422 with 128MB Vdram and 512MB memory in dealing with tasks, e.g. editing a hugh tiff image in photoshop; complex drawing in coreldraw; showing animated video in powerpoint? Will it be on par, over, or subpar with PC notebook like Sony Z1 with 1.7GHz centrino, or doran (2MB cache model for S170 sold in US), or equivalent models. Please be subjective and rational rather than biased in this point?</p><p> </p><p>(2) Versatility: How feasible and ease for Mac user to get freewares/sharewares to try like in Windows world? For examples, can we add-on stuffs like transparency menu, alter color and skin in the menu title, change icon look, write softwares such as DVD genie software to by-pass the firmware like region-code limited DVD drive...</p><p> </p><p>(3) Durablility and hardware upgradablitiy: How durable on average for a powerbook regardless of the upcoming "better" models? Do the users themselves can easily assess the memory slot, harddisk for DIY upgrade, esp. the latter one which we may get a harddisk with a more reasonable price from any computer accessary store? How frequent will the Apple to "update" the OS like Windows? If so, will it be charged or free in general/recall from past experience?</p><p> </p><p>Your information is really appreciated and I will seriously consider for making my decision on purchase of powerbook. Frankly speaking, I spent a while through in the internet to check and look for the actual model in apple authorized store. I like the design and am satisified with the reported performance (based on the general discussed reviews from internet), which really need the real experience revealed from users like you... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p> </p><p>Sincerely yours,</p><p>Michael</p><p><a href="mailto:mchchau@hotmail.com">mchchau@hotmail.com</a></p><p>PS: I came across the hot Alumbook (powerbook G4 made of aluminium) while using and do Apple make any offical response to resolute it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michaelosaur, post: 43002"] Dear all, I am the novice to the Mac powerbook G4 but I plan to buy one. Without experience and time, I would like to ask if anyone knew the following issues which actually are the questions I asked myself for shifting myself from my adroit experience in windows-based system to Mac OS X world. Honestly I do not want to heat up the debat on the use of Windows vs Mac OS X but as a practicable guy, I have to ask for more information from expertises like you: (1) Performance: How fast and responsive to a powerbook let say, alumbook M9422 with 128MB Vdram and 512MB memory in dealing with tasks, e.g. editing a hugh tiff image in photoshop; complex drawing in coreldraw; showing animated video in powerpoint? Will it be on par, over, or subpar with PC notebook like Sony Z1 with 1.7GHz centrino, or doran (2MB cache model for S170 sold in US), or equivalent models. Please be subjective and rational rather than biased in this point? (2) Versatility: How feasible and ease for Mac user to get freewares/sharewares to try like in Windows world? For examples, can we add-on stuffs like transparency menu, alter color and skin in the menu title, change icon look, write softwares such as DVD genie software to by-pass the firmware like region-code limited DVD drive... (3) Durablility and hardware upgradablitiy: How durable on average for a powerbook regardless of the upcoming "better" models? Do the users themselves can easily assess the memory slot, harddisk for DIY upgrade, esp. the latter one which we may get a harddisk with a more reasonable price from any computer accessary store? How frequent will the Apple to "update" the OS like Windows? If so, will it be charged or free in general/recall from past experience? Your information is really appreciated and I will seriously consider for making my decision on purchase of powerbook. Frankly speaking, I spent a while through in the internet to check and look for the actual model in apple authorized store. I like the design and am satisified with the reported performance (based on the general discussed reviews from internet), which really need the real experience revealed from users like you... :) Sincerely yours, Michael [email="mchchau@hotmail.com"]mchchau@hotmail.com[/email] PS: I came across the hot Alumbook (powerbook G4 made of aluminium) while using and do Apple make any offical response to resolute it? [/QUOTE]
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