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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

Do you play Ghost Recon on Game Ranger? Nothing beats an 18 vs. 18 player
game of Ghost Recon in Siege Mode.

Maybe we can get an Internetworks clan together ;-)

David

On 5/7/03 2:58 PM, "zman" <zman AT gibbon.kungfumonkey.com> wrote:

> The 2 biggest differences in a Powerbook vs. iBook are L3 cache(except the
> 12") and graphics. If you plan on doing anything grphic intensive swing
> for the powerbook, I happily play UT and Ghost Recon on my TiBook w/ no
> problems, where I've noticed a lag and low frame rates on the iBooks.
> Also I believe the G4 chip will have a longer useable life than the G3's
> in the iBook. I'm thinking the 12" Powerbook will soon be the low man on
> the totem pole. $.04
> 
> On Wed, 7 May 2003, Jim Allman wrote:
>> Just to chime in here, I'm very happy with my 800 MHz iBook (aka
>> "Superfly"). It's holding up nicely for daily programming, Flash and web
>> development.
>> I maxed out the RAM (also bought from Crucial) and saw much snappier
>> performance from OS X. I think anyone who's sitting on the fence regarding
>> iBook vs. PowerBook should try an iBook with lots of RAM before making a
>> final decision.
>> Regarding possible changes in Apple's architecture: I doubt they'll abandon
>> these machines in any serious way. What's your worst-case scenario? That
>> expensive peripherals will stop working? Or that the OS will leave 
>> PPC-based
>> Macs behind somehow?
>> =jimA=