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New Apple PowerBooks

There's no difference between the standard and teacher/student beyond what you mentioned. I have the teacher/student version of Office X (huge $$ savings obviously) and have not found fault with it. I actually now prefer the Mac version of Word (though I am not a big Word fan to begin with)...
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- Post #64
- Feb 9, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Need best bang-for-buck card for my boy

I completely agree. I appreciate the poster's input re: buying a stopgap card (and saving me $$), but I really prefer to buy "no quite cutting edge" gear in this contex. That GeForce3 card lasted over 3 years and while I don't expect the same longevity from the 6600GT, I think he will get some...
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- Post #26
- Feb 6, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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New Apple PowerBooks

Wuzup, Do you like the Powersleevz? I have several of the Radtech products (great company) and I'm about to take delivery of a new 12" PB to be my "travel" monster (the machine that gets tossed in all sorts of bags and dragged around), I was thinking of getting the Powersleevz so that I can...
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- Post #57
- Feb 6, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Need best bang-for-buck card for my boy

It is amazing how much the video card market has simplified at this range ... it's really a pleasure. :D I'm impressed at the consensus and will definitely go with the 6600GT . Since I normally go with ATI/Matrox on my own machines I will stick with one of the tried-n-true brands. I'm...
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- Post #10
- Feb 6, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Need best bang-for-buck card for my boy

Hi all, After all of these years I know this is "the place" to get an answer to my question. My son inherited my self-built P4 3.06 GHz machine recently and since it was primarily used as a graphics workstation it *originally* had a 128 MB Parhelia in it (stop laughing). Of course I...
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- Feb 6, 2005
- Replies: 33
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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New Apple PowerBooks

Crucial prices have been all over the place of late. I agree with halfadder about mushkin. I've bought memory from MemoryX several times, here's their 1.67 GHz PB 17" memory page. They saved me a year ago when I could not get any other vendor's 1 GB stick to work in my 12" PB. Even went...
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- Post #54
- Feb 6, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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New Apple PowerBooks

I actually have two cases for my 17" PB ..... One for work and business travel: The Racer-X by SF Bags , the owner, Gary , is a great guy and their stuff is very well made. And another for when I travel for pleasure: The VoltXL by Spire . Their backpacks are also well built and nicely...
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- Post #51
- Feb 4, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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New Apple PowerBooks

Purpledemon, I would definitely go with the Applecare. When you break down the price over the length of the warranty, it's pretty reasonable and in by far the majority of cases the support is top-notch. The piece of mind is good, too :) . My new 12" PB should arrive tomorrow, from...
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- Post #38
- Feb 3, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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New Apple PowerBooks

LOL, Wuzup, sounds like you're heading for a serious transition (dare I say "partial switch"?). Of course, I followed exactly the trajectory you descibe ;) . My son now has my original self-built P4 3.06 GHz machine (not that he's complaining) and I have a tricked out Dual 2.5 + 23" HDD on my...
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- Post #30
- Feb 2, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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New Apple PowerBooks

You're going to enjoy that 17" PB Whaspe .... I spent the whole weekend glued to mine writing to meet a deadline, propped up on an iCurve, bluetooth KB and mouse and a pair of Apple Pro speakers via iFire. Dashing back and forth from Word to InDesign to Photoshop with iTunes blasting away. Felt...
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- Post #16
- Jan 31, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Apple's Mac Mini

Hmmm, dorm life sure has changed in the past 25 years :Q:D Of course, my programming classes also used punch cards :thumbsdown: JT (Cal '84)
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- Post #62
- Jan 14, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Apple's Mac Mini

In my case, my 10-year-old son has been very jealous of his older sister's iPod Mini for months. Knowing him a regular iPod would survive for about a week :Q . "Sorry mom, I didn't know you couldn't play catch with it" The iPod shuflfle has his name written all over it :) , just have to...
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- Post #50
- Jan 13, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Apple's Mac Mini

The "quiet" aspect of these machines is no joke .... you can get spoiled very quickly. I had a souped-up Cube as my primary Mac until this summer when I invested in a Dual G5. The G5 was definitely a bit louder than the Cube of course ;) , but it is all relative. The G5 replaced a very fast...
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- Post #45
- Jan 13, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Apple's Mac Mini

Yup, it's a 2.5" HDD. I wasn't thrilled at first until I reminded myself that my daughter's G4 iBook has a 4200 RPM 2.5" HDD and I must say that it is a pleasure to use. So would I capture video to it? No, but I prefer to avoid capturing video to anything slower than a 7200 RPM drive...
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- Post #37
- Jan 13, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Apple's Mac Mini

Oh my, I'm floored.... I didn't think they would do this. Good call halfadder .... this will be a great machine for the basic user, I'm about to "switch" my mom to Mac and this will be perfect, she had been putting me off since she didn't want to spend the bucks on an iMac. Just have to...
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- Post #18
- Jan 11, 2005
- Forum: Laptops

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