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Basic usage ibook.

Jun 23, 2007 11:56AM PDT

I am going to go to Canada and my cousin, not very good at computers, suggested that I should buy an ibook so that I dont get bored. I thought that it would be a good idea to buy a used low end model from ebay. What I am worried about is performance on these old machines.

Firstly I will be doing all the basic stuff that most people do like email, web, youtube etc. I presume just about any G4 ibbok will be able to pull this off easily.

Dreamweaver. I am learning Dreamweaver and I want to know if there is a version out there which will run on these low end ibooks.

As this is not going to be my main stream computer and just a tester (for switching to Mac OSX), I want it to be a s cheap as possible but at the same time give me reasonable performance. Can you please suggest the specs I should look for on ebay?

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fairly simple...
Jun 23, 2007 1:39PM PDT

it needs to be operational.

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short answer?
Jun 23, 2007 2:34PM PDT

any iBook with 1.2 ghz or better will be new enough to keep you happy.

For best video performance make sure the RAM is maxed out.

Any version of DreamWeaver will run on your new/old mac as long as it is for the mac platform.

Don't plan on running windows on a G4 like you can on a mac intel.

Oh yeah, get a targus chill pad or a similar cooling pad for your laptop... those G4's run very hot.


Cheers

grim

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ibook G4 1Ghz?
Jun 23, 2007 4:52PM PDT

So just about any ibook G4 above 1Ghz and 256 MB RAM should do the trick?

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yes, but
Jun 23, 2007 11:24PM PDT

you really should increase the RAM and max it out (if that has not already been done.

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Do I NEED to?
Jun 24, 2007 2:49AM PDT

Do i really need to max out the RAM? Its not my mainstream computer just a trial and for very basic tasks maybe no Dreamweaver too if the performance is not good.

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do you NEED to?
Jun 24, 2007 3:01AM PDT

Probably not, but you are the one who wants "reasonable performance" as stated in your original post. I suggest you look at the minimum requirements of whatever version of OSX you plan to be running and use that as your guide.

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That RAM requirement
Jun 24, 2007 8:56AM PDT

These are the RAM requirements for OS X (10.4) and Adobe DreamWeaver.

Mac OS

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RAM especially needed for streaming video
Jun 24, 2007 10:18AM PDT

When I went from 512 to a full 1.256 gigs of ram in my 2 year old iBook the video performance of YouTube was startlingly better.

Take my word for it because I use the computer your talking about buying.

grim

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Right!
Jun 24, 2007 12:07PM PDT

Thanks. I will now look for one with the max amount of RAM.