I've talked about wanting one in the early days of this blog and today I made it official. I woke up this morning, visited Apple.com and saw the updated iBooks and ordered one. I'm getting a 14-inch iBook.
I've been waiting till the last possible minute to buy a laptop before I travel abroad and when Apple upgraded the iBook and lowered the price this morning the moment was right. I would have loved for the rumors of a widescreen iBook to be true and a little more graphics memory would have been nice, but this will be a great Mac to have while living abroad.
I also took advantage of Apple's "Buy a mac and get a cheap iPod" deal and got a new 20Gb color iPod. Everything should get here in a few weeks, and I'll talk about it more then.
finally. It is kind of disappointing that they didn't up the video memory though.
Posted by: Andy at July 26, 2005 10:34 AMI've been wanting to replace my G3 iBook since the AppleCare expired in April and have just been waiting for the next upgrade/pricedown cycle. So I was happy that the the rumors were true. Well, at least the ones that said new iBooks would be announced this week. I ordered the new 12" model (prefer the smaller lap-print and lower price).
Which one of us will get ours first? (I predict you)
Although the system bus is pretty slow and the graphics card isn't Core Image-capable, I'm psyched about the 1.33GHz G4 processor, 24x CD burning, built-in AirPort Extreme card, built-in Bluetooth 2.0, built-in 512MB RAM (finally!) and the capability to upgrade that to 1.5GB.
Anyone want to buy a used iBook? 600MHz Late 2001 model with 640MB of RAM.
Posted by: Eddie Hargreaves at July 26, 2005 04:37 PMYay! This iBook DOES contain a Core Image-capable graphics card! Apple has updated the list at http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/coreimage/ to include the ATI Radeon 9550.
Posted by: Eddie Hargreaves at July 27, 2005 03:10 PM