used iBook G4.good deal?

tonester · Post by **tonester** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:27 pm

Hi:

I have a chance to et a used iBook G4 for $300.I'm not all that savvy with the Mac laptops,but I'm wondering if I can run Leopard or Snow Leopard on it.I would like to use the MacBook in a live situations to control VI's or possibly Reason 4 and DP6 or 7.

It's a friends, and she's not sure of the specs......

Thanks in advance,

Tony

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:53 pm

If I recall correctly, as long as the clock speed is 900 mhz or higher and you have at least one gig of RAM installed, Leopard will work on the iBook G4. I currently run Leopard on my wife's 933 iBook G4, but it takes forever to start up or open applications.

Snow Leo is a no-go on all but Intel Macs, which the G4 is not.

You have to do the price research, but remember latops tend to get beat up in normal use, so a warranty would be a nice thing to have. My daughter's iBook G4 motherboard died a little over a year ago. My wife's doesn't charge batteries anymore, so we use my daughter's dead iBook to handle battery chores and swap out batteries. Which reminds: if the iBook you are considering has the original battery, it is almost certainly on its last legs.

tonester · Post by **tonester** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:07 pm

Thanks for the tips. I did a little research and saw the iBook is Power PC. I am going to say that the person that owns it probably has Tiger. My main thing is do I throw $300 on this or save it towards the MacBook of my choice, which I know will handle everything I'm trying to throw at it?

daniel.sneed · Post by **daniel.sneed** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:50 am

The exact Ram size and CPU speed would be a good information.
I would not intend to get any serious music job done with that setup though.
When it comes to software, you'll have to face little to no support at all.

A 3 years old white Intel MacBook is a different story.

Larry Mal · Post by **Larry Mal** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:14 pm

No, I wouldn't pay that for that. It's not really good for much besides general purpose computing, and even for that, it's likely on its last legs. Laptops, even Macs, are usually only good for five or so years on average. I'd walk on by.

Dwetmaster · Post by **Dwetmaster** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:55 am

You can get a fist gen MacBook for 500$

tonester · Post by **tonester** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 3:34 pm

Larry Mal wrote:No, I wouldn't pay that for that. It's not really good for much besides general purpose computing, and even for that, it's likely on its last legs. Laptops, even Macs, are usually only good for five or so years on average. I'd walk on by.

yeah,gonna save the $$$ towards a MacBook pro.....

Thanks all!

MOTUnation.com

used iBook G4.good deal?

used iBook G4.good deal?

Re: used iBook G4.good deal?

Re: used iBook G4.good deal?

Re: used iBook G4.good deal?

Re: used iBook G4.good deal?

Re: used iBook G4.good deal?

Re: used iBook G4.good deal?