andrewtayloruk

Hi,

Just want to toss this open to some discussion, i'm in the market for a new laptop, I've got a G4 IBOOK at the moment which is provided by my company, I now need to buy my own.

I'm currently undecided between

G4 iBook 12"
1.2Ghz
768MB RAM
60GB HD

G4 Powerbook 15"
1.33Ghz
768MB RAM
60GB HD

I do quite a bit of SSH, I use bbEdit, office, a few X11 apps, I'm starting to build some java, I use dreamweaver / photoshop occasionally. I'd like to start playing age of empires (myths/kings/ whatever the latest is). I've got an iPOD.

I'm leaning towards the iBook, it costs very very little £700ish if I buy it in the US (where I'm going next week) or if I buy it through the business and claim the VAT back. I've got one at the moment and it's a doozy, nice and compact, light, build really well. When I'm in the office or working from my office at home I hook it up to a 17" ultrasharp dell TFT using the mirrorspan hack. I've no need for a DVD writer so which ever I buy will have the combo not superdrive.

The powerbook is a lot more and the only real benefit is the DVI output and the bigger screen.

Any powerbook users out there care to comment, are they significantly faster than the iBook through the use of level2/3 cache?

Andrew