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[Akia]

I was planning to buya 17-inch Powerbook come September. But since the Intel annoucement I don't know anymore. I'm about to go to France to study abroad and then go to a four year college. I was hoping to not have to upgrade for 3 years after I made my purcase. Now I'm sooo confused.

 

[DarienA]

I was planning to buya 17-inch Powerbook come September. But since the Intel annoucement I don't know abymore. I'm about to go to France to study abroad and then go to a four year college. I was hoping to not have to upgrade for 3 years after I made my purcase. Now I'm sooo confused.

Uh... you'd probably want to upgrade in 3 years regardless.

 

[EGM92]

Intel chips won't be in Apple products immediatly, there's a transition process. Jobs said the transition should be complete by the next WWDC. But then again it could be longer. MAC's arn't like PC's they don't become outdated as easily. I could still see myself using my Powerbook I bought 6 months ago 5-6 years from now. Don't hesitate to buy one if you're going to use it for school, but I'd wait a couple of months to see if there's a revision on the specs.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

The first macs with Intel chips will not arrive until June of 2006. I wouldn't want to wait a year to buy a new computer you need now.

 

[border]

IMAC's arn't like PC's they don't become outdated as easily. I could still see myself using my Powerbook I bought 6 months ago 5-6 years from now.

I seriously doubt that a Mac from half a decade ago would be particularly useful (at least with new Mac OSes).

Any computer will last a long time while if you only use if for MP3s, productivity apps, and web surfing.

 

[neptunes]

what are you using it for?

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Actually, I run Tiger on a 450 Mhz G4 at the office, and it runs great. RAM is the key, and I've got 640MB of RAM on the machine. Tiger scales itself very nicely. And this machine is at least 5 years old.

 

[Hitokage]

I seriously doubt that a Mac from half a decade ago would be particularly useful (at least with new Mac OSes).

OSX has a track record of improving performance with successive releases, not the other way around.

 

[Deku Tree]

Actually, I run Tiger on a 450 Mhz G4 at the office, and it runs great. RAM is the key, and I've got 640MB of RAM on the machine. Tiger scales itself very nicely. And this machine is at least 5 years old.

KFJ is telling the truth. If you have 640MB of RAM or more OSX runs better. I have 1.19GB of ram on my Dual 500MGz PPC (blue) G4 and Tiger runs great. I run all my apps at the same time with no problems and no complaints about speed.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

why would you Buy apple

Ummm...lots of reasons. OS X with a Unix core is a great operating system for starters. Here's two more reasons: almost no viruses and no spyware.

 

[EGM92]

my Clam Shell SE backup Laptop with 466mhz and 320MB of ram runs Tiger just fine, almost all effects run smoothly. Remember this was released back in 2000 and I use it whenever my powerbook is too big to bring along with me.