[geeks] Good online Apple dealers?

[Michael Kaegler]

Generally speaking... target audience.

PowerBooks are for people with deep pockets. Gigabit interfaces, 
audio/video in sometimes. Built-in bluetooth. Sleek looks, expensive 
displays. They come bigger and go faster.

iBooks are for the rest of us. When the clamshell iBooks came out I 
heard the joke that they were "empty boxes" because they had very few 
things that had previously been included on all apple laptops 
(powerbooks). Smaller drives, fewer interfaces, no L2 (they tend to 
have L2 these days), no audio in or scsi anything. But they were fast 
and cheep.

iBooks do indeed have a PCMCIA slot; under the keyboard. It holds the 
(PCMCIA) airport cards. I honestly don't know if you could put other 
stuff in it, but I don't think the current powerbooks use much in the 
way of PCMCIA either. Unlike the older PowerBooks (my 1400cs has two 
type-ii slots).
-mKaegler


>I'm not sure of all of the differences but an iBook lacks a
>PCMCIA slot, the PowerBooks are so equipped.
>
>/KRM
>
>On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:07:21 -0500
>Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at plexus.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Ur, work handed me a PowerBook G4 a few months ago.  It's my
>>  first Mac so pardon a basic question ..
>>
>>  What's the diff between PowerBook and IBook ?
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