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[summercomfort]

So I called home and told mom my two choices: the Gateway and the iBook.

Today, dad called and said he looked around at Fry's and found these two:

Compaq r3425us, which is on sale for $899 until TOMORROW,
pros: super cheap, good video/screen
cons: 8.2 lbs, not DVD+-RW, about 2 hours battery life, fan constantly on

and HP dv1170us, which is being sold for $1299.
pros: DVD +-RW
cons: 8.1 lbs, 3 hour battery life. Wide screen all that hyped up to be?

Have you noticed, dad is a hp-fan.

Just called dad again. Dad sounded sad that I don't want an 8 lb laptop.

So what's the difference between a souped-up iBook and a normal powerBook? I've been warned against powerBooks. Is it justified?

Comments

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

Well, from what I remember, Aza said his powerbook is less durable than Isaac's ibook, and has worse wireless to boot.

[eptified.livejournal.com]

Also the ibook internal microphone is designed better, vis, it doesn't pick up machine noise. If that's important.

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

Well, here's the iBook specs (http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/70702/wo/qI6hEr9CAAnY2n6yoJC22TnUPnC/0.0.11.1.0.6.21.1.1.1.0.0.0.1.0) versus the PowerBook specs (http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/70702/wo/qI6hEr9CAAnY2n6yoJC22TnUPnC/0.0.11.1.0.6.21.1.1.1.1.0.0.1.0).

My roommate has a 12" Powerbook and is 4.6 pounds (the 17" is about 7 pounds).

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

the powerbook is 4.6 pounds, not my roommate (way to go with my sentence structure). but she loves her powerbook v. much.