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<blockquote data-quote="flonejek" data-source="post: 44824"><p>Well my ibook is slightly faster than yours, and handles all the aforementioned stuff easily, so you should be fine application wise.</p><p></p><p>You should get an airport extreme card, supports the latest (802.11g) and the second latest (802.11b) wireless networks with WEP, WPA and some other security stuff, mine works seamlessly with my 802.11b netgear wireless adsl router.</p><p></p><p>As for extra software, I just got darwinports working (a tad tricky, read the full documentation first), and use OSS software for nearly everything...</p><p></p><p>reccomendations:</p><p>chatting: Adium</p><p>filesharing: xDonkey</p><p>programming: Xcode (duh! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>word processing: AppleWorks (I know Office 2004 for is better, but only marginally, and Appleworks documents are more nicely formatted, it supports more formats, and the filesizes are usually less bloated, as well as quite clean html generation)</p><p>internet: Firefox (use only when safari fails you, you could use camino, but firefox has a later version of gecko and is great for javascript programming/XUL)</p><p></p><p>You'll never need an antivirus (as by default you aren't running as root, so only stuff you have in your home dir can be damaged by a virus, and there's no malicious one's for mac OSX yet, only proof of concept ones), and mac OSX has a good firewall built in, though you probably won't need that either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flonejek, post: 44824"] Well my ibook is slightly faster than yours, and handles all the aforementioned stuff easily, so you should be fine application wise. You should get an airport extreme card, supports the latest (802.11g) and the second latest (802.11b) wireless networks with WEP, WPA and some other security stuff, mine works seamlessly with my 802.11b netgear wireless adsl router. As for extra software, I just got darwinports working (a tad tricky, read the full documentation first), and use OSS software for nearly everything... reccomendations: chatting: Adium filesharing: xDonkey programming: Xcode (duh! :) word processing: AppleWorks (I know Office 2004 for is better, but only marginally, and Appleworks documents are more nicely formatted, it supports more formats, and the filesizes are usually less bloated, as well as quite clean html generation) internet: Firefox (use only when safari fails you, you could use camino, but firefox has a later version of gecko and is great for javascript programming/XUL) You'll never need an antivirus (as by default you aren't running as root, so only stuff you have in your home dir can be damaged by a virus, and there's no malicious one's for mac OSX yet, only proof of concept ones), and mac OSX has a good firewall built in, though you probably won't need that either. [/QUOTE]
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