Before I start I'll give you some background. I have used PC's all my life and spent 2 years administering an NT network, so there is a tiny wee bit of PC bias in here - but I'll try and keep it under control! I work for a web design co. as an account manager, and thus I need a Mac laptop. I have been living with it now for 4 months so here's the report so far. The plus points are numerous. It is fairly quick and not too noisy and dead easy to cart about (it has a really nifty handle on the back) The battery lasts about 4 hours and it has an inbuilt USB port , network card and modem (later models have a firewire port)...... ...  Read the complete review

I recently bought an iBook to take away with me to university in September, wanting something different from a normal windows system. I briefly considered getting Linux, but then looked at the iBook and decided to give it a try. People tried to convince me it was a bad idea initially, saying that I'd have to get used to a new OS and there wasn't much software for it. Blah Blah Blah :) Well, it took about a few days to get used to the new OS. I haven't had a problem with it. The only reason it feels odd at first is that I'm so used to Win 98. A total computer newbie would find learning to use Mac OSx much easier than Windows. The software ...  Read the complete review

After being a PC convert, I decided to try something new- and who could resist the new Apple iBook? I intended to use it initially for its tote-ability: it was lightweight (i believe it weighs in at about 4 lbs) and I could take it with me to do some writing. But let's face it- who could resist its outer beauty. Sleek and sexy, the new cream coloured amalgamation is very zen. It's the quietest computer I have ever had and it has a wonderful feeling keyboard (if that makes sense...)- it feels good to punch the keys! After having it for about a week, I realise that the iBook is capable of so much more than just good writing. It is also an ...  Read the complete review

The iBook is beautifully designed and insanely easy to use, but it's not for power users - there's not a lot of add-on hardware (at the time of writing, you can't add a DVD drive; ISDN connections are extremely expensive and so on). At 12" the screen's a bit titchy too. It's a great machine and a good companion to a desktop mac but, if you need a single machine for home and mobile use, a powerbook or PC notebook would be a better bet. ...  Read the complete review

The iBook is my first ever experience of using a Mac, and boy am I impressed. There’s an old rumour that Macs were designed for women, and this seems to be true for the iBook in more ways than just the design. The OS is intuitive and I haven’t had any problems that I couldn’t solve within a couple of minutes. My PC using husband, who is in tech support, finds it much more complicated than I do. I love this thing! The one frustration I have encountered is the lack of memory. I’ve had to buy more ram and the continuous switching on and off of the virtual memory is a tad frustrating. (btw I think Apple have added extra memory to the new ...  Read the complete review