Those of you who have switched to Intels this soon are traitors to a great chip and legacy. now macs and pcs share almost no difference. what happend to think different. Most in tel mac users are probably ex windows users that a are mac user want-a-bes. I've been using macs all my life ever since my dad gave me a IISi when i was 4.

Here here! iBookdude!
I wouldn't trade my G5 for all the intels in the world! (well ok maybe ALL of them) (so I could sell them and buy a few Quads!!!!! Ha...Ha...ha.....!)

I suppose that may be a fair estimation on your part.

But if you believe the Gx is what made the Mac different, then, with all due respect, you don't know what it is to be an Apple fan.

Have fun with your G5 in 2012!

(Oh, and just as a side note: I, for one, still think you're a traitor for going to the PowerPC processor and abandoning Apple's first love.)

I wonder how may 68040s it would take to compete with a G5......

I still have My IIsi mac. it was my first. i'm going to set it up again to run old softwarelike The Zone. don't call me a traitor idestroy PCs for fun

Man, you've obviously never worked for an Apple service provider. Over the course of my experience, the long term durability of portable machines has always fallen to the iBook. The clamshells were encased in rubber. they were ugly, but indestructible. The white iBook G3's were again encased in plastic, and while not designed for frisbee, were pretty hard to kill. They were also a breeze to work on. So too with the iBook G4's. They were actually further refined by the eliminaton of the tray loading optical drive.

Powerbooks on the other hand, while bigger, faster, and prettier, do not wear as well. The titaniums had weak hinges, the paint would blister and peel off the top case, the inner frame was plastic, and the bottom case would bend and separate. They didnt have the long term durability of their predecessors.

the Aluminum machines, while better, still have their own host of problems. Aluminum scratches, bends and dents like plastic doesnt. the units involve a lot more screws in order to take apart, and typically take a drop horribly. 12" powerbooks have a host of problems all their own, which I wont get into, since they're service related problems. But suffice it to say, I repair them for a living, and I owned two 12" iBooks as my machine of preference, till the MacBook's shipped.

As to intel, I was dubious, but being the owner of a MacBook Pro, pardon me, Powerbook Evolution, I'm thoroughly pleased.

As always, just my two cents.

There was a recent reliability survey published which confirms what Modyourmac says.

Most reliable laptop was the Lombard, closely followed by the Pismo.

The white iBooks are indeed very resilient except for their dodgy logic boards and reed switches. But those bits tend to fail if you drop them or not.

You'll pardon me, but I'm gonna take some offense to that. Lets review.

My first computer was an apple //e

My first Mac was a mac plus. My first PC was, oh wait, I never bought one.

I learned pagemaker when it was a mac only program from Aldus.

I have a 68LC040 processor hanging from the rear view mirror of my car.

I own 51 apple computer t-shirts. And I wear them too.

I college obsolete apple peripherals. Newtons, Quicktakes, The PowerCD.

I have worked for almost ten years as an apple certified desktop and portable tech. I do nothing but Mac all day long.

I passed my first desktop cert when there were still questions about localtalk, and mac classics in the exam.

Last time I checked, what truly defined the differences between a Mac and a PC happened to to be the OS as well as the hardware. You dont see me running windows.

Likewise, if I'm a traitor to a great legacy, and a great chip, which chip do you mean? the 68000 series from Motorola, or the PPC chips built by IBM. Or would it be the PPC chips currently manufactured by FreeScale? I currently own machines that have used all of them. I've repaired all of them, and I can take most all of them apart with my eyes closed.

Take note, I'm not a mac zealot. I encourage people to use whatever they like. HOWEVER. I do take pride in my profession, my skills, my career, and my lifetime loyalty to the Mac platform. I would suggest consider who you're calling a traitor, before doing so. You may bite off more than you can chew.

But of course, the whole thread is flamebait anyway.

Psha! Everybody knows that real Mac fans use only the 68000 and only traitors use IBM. IBM is teh corpor@te 3nemy!1!!1 68ooo 4 eva!!1!



Well said.

I wonder how AMD got shut out of this? Having used intel and AMD chips for years, I would concider them to be superior and of lower cost. How long untill we see an AMD Mac?