I should probably make a few things clear.
I was considering the G4 PB because I am A. Getting sick to the back of my teeth with the latest version of windows B. Tired of the lackluster performance of the Acer and the crap build quality. One thing you can say about the last line of PowerBooks, is they looked good and from what I've read, were build pretty damn well too. Probably a damn sight better then this plastic Acer
I have a very nice dual core HP DV7, which while a little old, runs circles around the Acer. The HP is the laptop I use for gaming or anything I'd remotely consider a desktop PC task, it's a beast of a machine and not very portable. Which is why I got the Acer, I didn't want something as fast as the HP, just something I could type my blog on, do light surfing (without stuttering) and a bit of photoshop.
For the past 2 days I've been using my G4 1.33ghz iBook and getting on with it pretty well, ok it could do with being a little quicker, maybe an SSD would solve this. It feels just as quick as the Acer and Tiger is a millions times kinder on the eye then the latest winblows OS 10. Someone suggested Linux, much as I like and support Ubuntu, I dont want to try running my regular apps through Wine. The Acer has already demonstrated it can't handling running Firefox natively without struggling to scroll down pages. Plus I'd want to back up the partitions and on a machine with no optical drive, I'd be left wasting an entire USB pen for the backup. Which frankly I think is dumb, when I could use a cheap DVD writable media for a tenth of the price. How USB pens work out more economical then disc's I'll never know!
I think for now, I'll install a spare SSD I have, in to the iBook and see how I fair using that machine.
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I was considering the G4 PB because I am A. Getting sick to the back of my teeth with the latest version of windows B. Tired of the lackluster performance of the Acer and the crap build quality. One thing you can say about the last line of PowerBooks, is they looked good and from what I've read, were build pretty damn well too. Probably a damn sight better then this plastic Acer
I have a very nice dual core HP DV7, which while a little old, runs circles around the Acer. The HP is the laptop I use for gaming or anything I'd remotely consider a desktop PC task, it's a beast of a machine and not very portable. Which is why I got the Acer, I didn't want something as fast as the HP, just something I could type my blog on, do light surfing (without stuttering) and a bit of photoshop.
For the past 2 days I've been using my G4 1.33ghz iBook and getting on with it pretty well, ok it could do with being a little quicker, maybe an SSD would solve this. It feels just as quick as the Acer and Tiger is a millions times kinder on the eye then the latest winblows OS 10. Someone suggested Linux, much as I like and support Ubuntu, I dont want to try running my regular apps through Wine. The Acer has already demonstrated it can't handling running Firefox natively without struggling to scroll down pages. Plus I'd want to back up the partitions and on a machine with no optical drive, I'd be left wasting an entire USB pen for the backup. Which frankly I think is dumb, when I could use a cheap DVD writable media for a tenth of the price. How USB pens work out more economical then disc's I'll never know!
I think for now, I'll install a spare SSD I have, in to the iBook and see how I fair using that machine.
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