Stop thinking with your gadget-lusting dingy, and use your head!
Written: Nov 22 '01
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Pros: Fast boot, Thin and sexy, Opens Photoshop quicklike, S-video out for DVD
Cons: Nothing fun included, keyboard loose and small, Speakers suck, titanium gets hot!
The Bottom Line: Unless you can think of 20 uses for this computer that a PC just won't do as well, don't buy it.
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| sfainer's Full Review: Apple PowerBook G4 15.2 in. (M8362LL/A) Mac Notebo... |
To begin I must introduce myself as an avid PC user up until six months ago when I began a new job where the small network was all-Mac, all the time. I worked the best angle I could and managed to convince the higher-ups that I needed a G4 Titanium. Honestly, I'm a youth pastor and there is really no good justification me having gotten this computer except that I already had a decent Compaq laptop and well, I didn't want something that would be slower than what I had. So the titanium...
As I mentioned, I have been using this sleek machine for a number of months now and it has done some nice work in Photoshop and Pagemaker for me. It runs all my "regular needs" software (Outlook, Explorer, Word, Excel) fine, and I do appreciate the speed with which the programs load up. Using other staff members computers to complete a project bore me to tears. I envision myself even doing some video editing if we ever have some digital video footage of a church or youth group event, which I'm sure it will do quite well.
Here are my problems with this very capable machine:
#1 My laptop shipped with OS x but had 9.1 installed. Imagine my surprise after installing 10 and using it for several days and then realizing, "Hey, this thing loads up in 9.1 still." I haven't seen OS x since the first week I used it. That's weird man.
#2 I bought a bubbly HP laserjet printer for this machine in my first week on the job. Several installs, a reinstallation of the operating system, then leaving it alone, and then several more installs with HP patches not previously offered, and I still don't use this printer. I just took it off my desk to use with, you guessed it, my pc. Of course, Apple said this would be HP's problem, and they're right, but just pay attention to the theme being developed here.
#3 Sometimes I travel the aisles of Costco looking for software. Starcraft and Diablo 2 are the only things that are Mac-compatible. Nothing else is offered. I'd always heard the mac-proponents lamenting the lack of software. PC users, you have no idea. It's a nightmare you should not enter.
I know I've focused on third party issues, but let me say that's precisely the problem. The G4 would make a great laptop if people wrote software for it, and made hardware compatible for it, and, well, you get the idea.
Basically, owning a G4 titanium is like having a really hot girlfriend that is so boring you mutter to yourself, "What a waste." The difference is you can't dump something that costs you over 2 grand...
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 2599
Operating System: Macintosh
Processor: PowerPC G4
Processor speed: 301-400
Screen Size: Greater than 15
RAM: 256
Internal Storage: DVD
Hard Drive (GB): 13-20
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