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> Which 15inch Powerbook?
jon172
posté lun. 4 avril 2005, 13:38
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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 blink.gif

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?

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posté lun. 4 avril 2005, 19:26
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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.

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posté lun. 4 avril 2005, 22:03
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Thanks smile.gif

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?

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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.

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Hi jon172!


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Sorry if you think these a stupid questions


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....

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jon172
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Thanks Guys,

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

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