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October 22, 2003

G4 iBooks

WOW! Apple is really on a roll all of the sudden! I don’t think anyone saw this coming, I don’t even know if any of the rumor sites caught it…

Apple just announced all new G4 iBooks, now completely abandoning their older G3 processor.

You can now get an 800mhz G4 iBook with a 12” screen for only $1099.00! Wow! That is incredible.

There is a 933mhz model with 14” display for $1299.00, and a 1ghz with a 14” for $1499.00. All models have a slot-loading combo drive, 256mb of RAM, and an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 video card. They also now support Airport Extreme, and Bluetooth.

If you go to the education store there is a special iBook setup with only a CD-Rom drive for $949.00 and $100 discounts on the other models.

Wow… Apple laptops just got a whole lot more competitive as far as prices go.

www.apple.com

Posted by derek at October 22, 2003 08:54 AM | TrackBack

Comments

I might have to sell my year-old 600Mhz now. Apple also has the (now) old iBooks and eMacs on clearance very cheap. $699 for a new, old-stock, eMac is a really good deal.

Posted by: Mike at October 25, 2003 12:52 PM

This just makes wanting an iBook all the more harder though cause I still can’t pony up the dosh right now. At least when the prices were truly out of my price range, I could justify not having one yet. Now this is torture.

Posted by: Mandy at October 29, 2003 01:19 AM

Only problem is they shrank the cache way down to cripple them compared to the powerbooks. It might be a little faster than the G3, but not much… G4 after all is basically just a G3 with altivec to make things like photoshop run faster.

Posted by: JC at November 3, 2003 04:41 PM