Hi Gorgonops
Photoshop and CGI have long been a hobby of mine, so i enjoy sitting down with CS2 and doodling. Over the years I've been able to produce some pretty impressive things with just my Pismo, I bought the iBook for the better screen and faster G4 1.33. Yes I want photoshop to run smoothly and yes when your running CS2 on a 10 year old machine, it does run pretty well, at least that is my experience. I was looking at the later Powerbook because the Acer I have is cheesing me off. Windows 8.1 and 10 are dreadful to use and no matter what Microsoft say, 10 runs just as slow as 8 on my hardware.
Aside from heavy sites working like youtube and facebook, my online experience with the Acer isn't that much better then my iBook. In addition, the cheap feeling trackpad leaves me wanting to tear off my own fingers when ever I use it for more then a few seconds, something I've never had with the iBook!
So I thought why NOT get a G4 Powerbook, its the last of the PPC laptops Apple made, the build quality will no doubt be a damn sight better then the Acer. Your getting a machine that used to cost over a grand new, at the very least the trackpad will be better.
I could go for an intel mac, now that I know they'll run my PPC apps. Installing Xebuntu on the Acer V3 is also an option, but it wont change the fact it's a steaming pile of donkey droppings with a utterly useless trackpad. In truth I might just stick with the iBook, I've been using it a lot more recently and if what you say about the speed difference is true, then going from a 1.33 to a 1.66 wont feel like much of a bump. The one thing the Powerbook would give me would be a larger screen.
Btw thank you for the reply, this thread has been really useless and I've learned quite a bit from it
Photoshop and CGI have long been a hobby of mine, so i enjoy sitting down with CS2 and doodling. Over the years I've been able to produce some pretty impressive things with just my Pismo, I bought the iBook for the better screen and faster G4 1.33. Yes I want photoshop to run smoothly and yes when your running CS2 on a 10 year old machine, it does run pretty well, at least that is my experience. I was looking at the later Powerbook because the Acer I have is cheesing me off. Windows 8.1 and 10 are dreadful to use and no matter what Microsoft say, 10 runs just as slow as 8 on my hardware.
Aside from heavy sites working like youtube and facebook, my online experience with the Acer isn't that much better then my iBook. In addition, the cheap feeling trackpad leaves me wanting to tear off my own fingers when ever I use it for more then a few seconds, something I've never had with the iBook!
So I thought why NOT get a G4 Powerbook, its the last of the PPC laptops Apple made, the build quality will no doubt be a damn sight better then the Acer. Your getting a machine that used to cost over a grand new, at the very least the trackpad will be better.
I could go for an intel mac, now that I know they'll run my PPC apps. Installing Xebuntu on the Acer V3 is also an option, but it wont change the fact it's a steaming pile of donkey droppings with a utterly useless trackpad. In truth I might just stick with the iBook, I've been using it a lot more recently and if what you say about the speed difference is true, then going from a 1.33 to a 1.66 wont feel like much of a bump. The one thing the Powerbook would give me would be a larger screen.
Btw thank you for the reply, this thread has been really useless and I've learned quite a bit from it