laptop good/bad?
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- instantok0
im in a spot too...i have a g3 powerbook...frankly it is as powerful as i need (obviously faster doesnt hurt tho) and it goes EVERYWHERE with me...but i absolutely need a monitor (getting a 20 inch cinema display)...i also have one year left in school so i want to take advantage of the apple educational discount...but i cant decide if i want to get a g5 and keep my latop...or get a new powerbook and sell my pbook g3...both work out to about the same amount of money...
what would you do?
- woodyBatts0
why don't you just get a monitor and hook the g3 up to it, you can always buy an adapter.
I had an iBook and a powerBook and that's what i did.
- instantok0
i was told that my machine (powerbook g3) could not be hooked up to a cinema display (i asked about an adapter)...i could go with a 3rd party monitor but i would rather stick with apple...and i want to get a new machine to take advantage of my last year with the educational discount
- rasp0
if want a new computer why not grab a cheap powerbook and hook it up to a monster apple display!
nice
- instantok0
because the powerbook g4 is more expensive than the g5...i guess its really a matter of do i want to maintain two machines or one
- rasp0
a laptop and an lcd would win for me. more freedom.
what do you need most? power or the ability to move around?
- err0
I just got my band new Firewire 800 powerbook! Its a freaking great machine. I wouldn't get it if I did a lot of 3D stuff.
The new 15inchers are excellent machines I would highly reccommend it to any designer.
BTW if you bought a G5 you probably would get a Cinema display. If you got powerbook you don't NEED a cinema display. However I would reccommend finding a good CRT to hook it up to for color reasons. The LCD on the powerbbok is great but you can never trust the colors you choose unless you look at it on another display. CRTs are just cheaper than cinema displays.
And get the apple care its like $129 with the edu discount so find a friend that is still in school to buy it for you and transfer it over to you later.
- spartacus0
I think I will mostly be using it at home and perhaps taking it along to a few client meetings to show them visuals on screen.
I 15in is probabily the best size for this also I have a 19in monitor at home which I could rig it upto.
- one2meny0
Laptop is a great way to go, especially the 15 and 17" macs. But, if you're a designer, which I assume you are being on this website, I'd suggest you have a second monitor to connect in when you're at home to give yourself ample desktop real estate. IF you have the money though and only do occasional road work, buy a G5 and a little iBook or 12" G4 laptop.
- heavyt0
after having a tower and a powerbook, here is my opinion:
the powerbook is cool, not very fast compared to the tower. i really hated the video card in the powerbook, it took a loooooooong time to refresh the screen when working with larger files.
you will never get the kind of battery life out of it that you think.
if you are using it to design, get a larger monitor to hook up to it.
it wasnt a bad machine, but i think that i am the kind of dude that requires a tower instead.TR1
- unknown0
the problem with laptops are the crappy cards. you can't even do some serious maya shit on em, excpect for the Dell M60 which rides a nice quadro but it comes with a heavy price tag.
ever since I saw ILM rocking hulk on the M50 I was hooked
- fixate0
I've got a 15" powerbook. had it for 1 1/2 years.
F**K they're amazing.
I'm soon getting a 23" Cinema Display for it... but it's only as an extra.. I have no probs using it on it's own all day and night.
they're the bomb. get one.!! but eventually get a desktop mac too.
- sexypixel0
If you buy a laptop, you’ll also have to buy an external hard drive, a monitor, a key board, a mouse and a laptop bag, pcmsi cards for your memory stick.
Soon you’ll have spent the price for 3 desktops.
- fixate0
thats what 'you' think.
- sexypixel0
its what i know, its what happened to me, the dumb ass that i am