Which 15inch Powerbook? Options

[jon172]

Hi There,

I'm looking at purchasing a 15inch powerbook next month as my main music computer and I have a couple of questions?

Sorry if you think these a stupid questions

Do you think its worth paying extra for 1.67GHz PowerPC G4
or should I purchase the 1.5GHz and add more RAM from an external supplier?

Also is the superdrive really worth the extra money?

Cheers
John

[gdoubleyou]

You can never have too much horsepower, I've been using a 12 inch 1GHZ Powerbook for over a year now with no problems.

The super drive is helpful for backing up, and transporting songs, most of my songs weigh in at 1-2Gb, to big to fit on a CDR.

[jon172]

Thanks

I think I'm going to purchase the 1.5GHz from apple and choose the superdrive as an optional extra. I take it theres no problems buying extra memory from somewhere else and installing it?

Thanks
John

[gdoubleyou]

I bought mine from http://www.powermax.com at that time they threw in free Ram and airport card, check them out, they should at least have cheaper RAM than Apple.

[dixiechicken]

Hi jon172!

Sorry if you think these a stupid questions

Dont worry - science is asking stupid questions until you get to the really
good ones.

The 11% spedd difference is in my opinion not really worth it.
Under OS-X you'll need all the ram your computer can swallow.
Buy extra ram instead.
Running Digtal Performer 4.52 on OS-X basically means 1Gb ram.
(rule of thumb)

If you need to backup lots of data or burning mpeg-movies -
then superdrive is certainly worth consideration.
DVD-media is starting to become quite cheap also. so....

Cheers: Dixiechicken

[jon172]

Thanks Guys,

I've decided to go for the 1.5 with SD but add more RAM
I think that makes more sense

Cheers

John