bpat1434 wrote:Great... Thanks guys. I'm 99% for a mac now (purchase date in January, before Jan 31), and it's now down to Powerbook vs. iBook. The main difference I see is price, speed, and capacity. Are there really that many other differences that I should take into consideration?
~Brett
It used to boil down to a difference with the "nice" features, like bluetooth, optical drive, processor generation (back in the G3 ibook/G4 powerbook days), but not so much anymore. Looking at the specs on the current iBooks, there's little reason in my mind to go with a Powerbook, unless you want the screen real-estate offered by the larger models. If I were buying today, I'd personally go look at the 14" iBook... lots of juice, most of the "goodies" that the powerbooks have, and a good price, comparatively....then I'd walk over to a 15" PowerBook, see the much-increased screen resolution, and really ponder if the extra $700 is worth it.
Also think about how you're going to use it, and how you might connect it with other devices. The iBook is lacking things like audio line-in, Firewire 800 (has USB2 & FW400), DVI-out (has VGA/Svideo out), Gigabit ethernet (kinda optional anyway imho). Might make a difference if you plan on plugging it into a DVI monitor, or plan on doing any light audio work.
