toshiba vs. Ibook g4

Desiduous · Post by **Desiduous** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:17 am

currently have a toshiba a70.,.. not liking the windows so much. want something lighter with more battery, question is ,.. do you think the ibook g4 is good enough to run Live ? will it be a noticable difference? i have heard it works better on windows platform

czechchap · Post by **czechchap** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:22 am

You'll pull more ladies with a mac.

live seems to run a little slower on a mac and is more CPU hungry, but is more stable. It's never crashed on me. (touch wood) - the mac has, sometimes, but never running Live.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:07 am

you would get about half the performance you do on your toshiba... that said if you never cross the 45% mark on the cpu, you'll be fine with the iBook.

you wont be able to use your echo indigo though, as the ibooks have no pcmcia slots.

Desiduous · Post by **Desiduous** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:17 pm

hey thanks for the info ! ,,.. i do find the cpu meter goes up to 40 sometimes but usually only with intense amounts of midi,. i know, the echo card would have to go which sucks cause its really nice ,.. but i find that the noise from my toshiba is soo much that it often shows up on recordings, not good. can anyone tell me what they thought about the noise factor from the fan on an ibook>? any less ? for recording purposes i think i might switch up the echo indigo for some type of firewire device ,, thanx

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:34 pm

the fan in the ibook rarely even turns on.
my girlfriend has a g4 800mhz ibook and i never heard it turn on before yesterday when she was doing video mixing with Modul8 on it. and even when it did turn on, it wasn't that loud.

Desiduous · Post by **Desiduous** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:42 pm

ahh,,. yes now thats what im talking about,.. my toshiba makes so much white noise it puts me to sleep,.. i can't even study with the thing on. how is the battery life on the ibook though? i see it says 6 hours on the website but often that can a be an exageration

MarkH · Post by **MarkH** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:22 pm

Desiduous wrote:ahh,,. yes now thats what im talking about,.. my toshiba makes so much white noise it puts me to sleep,.. i can't even study with the thing on. how is the battery life on the ibook though? i see it says 6 hours on the website but often that can a be an exageration

I have a Dell Latitude C840 P4/1.8Ghz (8/2004 - nothing stellar by any means) and I use the Echo Indigo and it is quiet. Just as quiet as when I had a Powerbook. Performance is the same as the Powerbook too (AluBook 1.5Ghz). The Dell has 1GB ram and the PB had 1.5GB ram. The only difference is the PB had a 7200 RPM Hitachi 60GB and my Dell now has a 5400 RPM Seagate 100GB.

BTW, why are you using Live 4.03?

claas · Post by **claas** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 6:55 pm

I use a three year old iBook (G3 500 Mhz) and uses Live in combination with Reason on it. The advantage of a MAC is that the OS and the computer comes from one company. So OS and computer works better together.
My iBook is silent, you can't hear a noise.

greetings, claas

spiderprod · Post by **spiderprod** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:17 pm

i just got an acer and it's the mosty powrfull & silent machine i've ever worked with

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:19 pm

spiderprod wrote:i just got an acer and it's the mosty powrfull & silent machine i've ever worked with

I also have an Acer and it's the most powerful and noisy machine I have ever worked on.

B · Post by B » Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:20 pm

Hey Spiderprod,

what Acer did you get?

Sweetjesus,

what's yours?

I'm looking for a replacement for my noisy, hot running P4 2.6ghz. so any help...

cheers

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:19 am

Office Depot have a Compaq laptop with an AMD Athlon 3000 cpu for $399 + $45 shipping

Or an Athlon 64 upgrade for $85 more

Built in wirless and SVideo out.

3 days only from March 6

B · Post by B » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:31 pm

Thanks for the advice but I'm in the UK.

Regarding AMD 64 - how's the heat from those things? do they run as cool as centrinos?

jamief · Post by **jamief** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:49 pm

B wrote:Hey Spiderprod,

what Acer did you get?

Sweetjesus,

what's yours?

I'm looking for a replacement for my noisy, hot running P4 2.6ghz. so any help...

cheers

yes guys i,m also looking at an acer. what models you running ?

spiderprod · Post by **spiderprod** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:49 pm

acer aspire 1672wlmi

toshiba vs. Ibook g4

toshiba vs. Ibook g4

Or get an Athlon 3000 64 bit laptop for $485 + shipping