[geeks] ibook or tibook?

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:46:34AM -0500, Michael Schiller wrote:
> I was just looking on ebay at Apple laptops, and was curious, I saw 
> several systems that looked interesting, but was wondering, which would 
> be a better machine, a 400mhz tibook (G4), or a 600 ibook (G3)?

What do you want to use it for?  Does size matter?  What about battery
life?  There's a host of other questions too.  If you can, play with both
to get a feel for them.

> When looking at Sun equipment you always run across an occasional 
> somebody that thinks their stuff is gold, and prices it accordingly, 
> but when looking at Mac stuff it seems like occasionally you'll find 
> somebody that prices the stuff right, and that most of the other people 
> have their heads up their asses when it comes to pricing! I mean there 
> was an old ibook (the earlier style) that the seller wanted something 
> like $1200 for! What's up with the Mac prices?

Macs hold their value very well.

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