Hi There,

I'm looking at purchasing a 15inch powerbook next month as my main music computer and I have a couple of questions?

Sorry if you think these a stupid questions

Do you think its worth paying extra for 1.67GHz PowerPC G4
or should I purchase the 1.5GHz and add more RAM from an external supplier?

Also is the superdrive really worth the extra money?

Cheers
John

You can never have too much horsepower, I've been using a 12 inch 1GHZ Powerbook for over a year now with no problems.

The super drive is helpful for backing up, and transporting songs, most of my songs weigh in at 1-2Gb, to big to fit on a CDR.

Thanks

I think I'm going to purchase the 1.5GHz from apple and choose the superdrive as an optional extra. I take it theres no problems buying extra memory from somewhere else and installing it?

Thanks
John

I bought mine from http://www.powermax.com at that time they threw in free Ram and airport card, check them out, they should at least have cheaper RAM than Apple.

Hi jon172!




Dont worry - science is asking stupid questions until you get to the really
good ones.

The 11% spedd difference is in my opinion not really worth it.
Under OS-X you'll need all the ram your computer can swallow.
Buy extra ram instead.
Running Digtal Performer 4.52 on OS-X basically means 1Gb ram.
(rule of thumb)

If you need to backup lots of data or burning mpeg-movies -
then superdrive is certainly worth consideration.
DVD-media is starting to become quite cheap also. so....

Cheers: Dixiechicken

Thanks Guys,

I've decided to go for the 1.5 with SD but add more RAM
I think that makes more sense

Cheers

John