Ok... Assume for a second I have gone off my rocker here and want to purchase a mac powerbook...
I want a G4 minimum... Ebay shows a huge range of them for a huge range of prices (even among machines with the same specs). What does a G4 400mhz compare to ROUGHLY in the pc world? And don't give me pie-in-the-eye Steve Jobs is god estimates. :) Real world, it feels about the same as........ How about an 800mhz? Or a 1ghz? 1.33Ghz?
I placed a bid of 800 dollars on a G4 800mhz machine with 15" screen that didn't get any bids before the auction ended (he wanted 950 to start)... I haven't received any response as yet. I know I'm not planning on spending more than 1 grand... MAYBE 1200... but that's REALLY pushing it.
I don't want something craptacular... But I neither want ultra top of the line because it won't be used much. Something roughly equivalent to about a 1.5ghz Pentium 4 in speed would be just fine...
So what's the consensus?
Kanati
I want a G4 minimum... Ebay shows a huge range of them for a huge range of prices (even among machines with the same specs). What does a G4 400mhz compare to ROUGHLY in the pc world? And don't give me pie-in-the-eye Steve Jobs is god estimates. :) Real world, it feels about the same as........ How about an 800mhz? Or a 1ghz? 1.33Ghz?
I placed a bid of 800 dollars on a G4 800mhz machine with 15" screen that didn't get any bids before the auction ended (he wanted 950 to start)... I haven't received any response as yet. I know I'm not planning on spending more than 1 grand... MAYBE 1200... but that's REALLY pushing it.
I don't want something craptacular... But I neither want ultra top of the line because it won't be used much. Something roughly equivalent to about a 1.5ghz Pentium 4 in speed would be just fine...
So what's the consensus?
Kanati