another powerbook thread
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- MLP
so i'm buying a powerbook in the next week or so i can finally be portable with my work and insane schedule. question is - how much difference would i see with the 1.67ghz over the 1.5?
i do about 75% print work - the rest static web and am starting to get into motion graphics - no video or anything. i rarely do anything very complex in photoshop that would slow shit up, but almost always run photoshop, indesign and illustrator at the same time when working on stuff.
this is my last semester in school, so i'm obviously pressed for funds, so i didn't want to shell out the $200 for the faster processor if it wasn't going to show me any significant difference. i'm going to put a gig of ram in it on the upgrade.
any advice appreciated. hold on the sarcasm - even though i dish it out like its my job. thanks NT brethren.
- jpea0
you won't notice a diff
load it up with ram though
- ArtDirector0
Yeah, it's more about the memory.
- kld0
just got a 15' 1.67mhz pb. It's a lovely thing.
- ArtDirector0
It's definetly a beauty, but why must they skimp on the video card? I'm on the 1.5ghz and the VRAM is only 32mb which I was told is really low. No wonder my mouse moves so slow. I.25ghz of memory.
- armed_rob0
Buy the KING!
17" pb
and dont forget to put 2 gb ram in it!
- MLP0
a couple people at work have a 17" one and that thing is too big to carry around...
- stewart0
i have 15" pb 1.67 and 1G ram here.
i'd say a 17" is way to big. go find a nice bag to carry that monster around.
- MLP0
i'm going for the 15".. my bag will hold a dirty 30 of stones, but i don't really feel like lugging the 17" around.
bump for the daytime people... what about performance? 1.5v1.67
- armed_rob0
If you go for a 15" you need an extra screen if you want to work full time on it.
I really like my 17" but sure its big for the bag – but it pays back when you work on it!
- visualplane0
I remember asking macmall the same question, and one of their guru's said there's less than a 10% difference in speed. It's really about the ram.
- Kevin_Sweeney0
not only is the 17" too big, but it will eat up your battery like it was going out of style. stick with the 15" and load it up with 1GB+ of RAM. That will allow you to happily run all of those programs at the same time. 175MHtz will maybe add like...2 seconds max of wait time for a complex filter in Photoshop. Definately not worth $300 considering that you can probably get a 64-bit 2.5GHtz Athlon for that much.
- Meeklo0
I second the 15' all the way.
and I don't think you need an extra monitor, (if you are really craving for the space you can...) it is the perfect size.17' is too big, if apple comes with a 30' laptop, I'm sure there will be tons of people buying it just because is big, but it defeats the point of it being portable.
I have a 1.5 with 1.25 ram and it works great, and I do music, print and video, never had problems with the mouse either. I have no complaints, this is the second 15' I get, and I will probably get one when and if the g5 comes out, over a desktop. I work freelance and I can go anywhere, I had finished music tracks on plane rides!
go for it!
- kld0
Yep, 15". Just got 1.67mhz last week and it is plenty fast and coming from the 12", the screen is quite large(plus hooked up to my 23" it the best pallete screen i've had) Do it!
- MLP0
thanks for the suggestions...
i was also talking to someone that told me not to get the memory upgrade... they were right...
2 x 512 from apple = $150 extra
extra 512 @ crucial = $70gig stick upgrade = $350
gig stick @ crucial (giving 1.5 gigs in the end) = $200
- fifty500
you won't notice much difference between 1.5ghz and 1.67ghz. what really matters is the video card and the ram. load it up and don't get a 32mb graphic card. you'll need at least 64 if you want to do motion graphics.
- stewart0
and they keyboard backlights are damn useful too.
- MLP0
fifty50... the one i was going to hook up has a 64mb card... where would i start to see that slow down? like how complex would i have to be working?