Quandary about Powerbook upgrade

Matteh

Matteh

Matteh

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Hi all,

I'm looking for some thoughts on this - I currently have a 12" G4 Powerbook with Tiger, thats around about 2.5 years old now. It serves me really well, and its very well used - General usage is mail, im, browsing, itunes, cd+dvd burning and a little bit of photo stuff. The battery is pretty much buggered now, and only lasts about 45 mins. I'm very tempted to fork out on a new macbook now that leopard is out, but is it really worth it for what I do? I mean I could just upgrade to Leopard and replace my battery - How much would I honestly be missing out on? Are there any features in Leopard that I wouldn't be able to use? The biggest selling point of a new Macbook is Parallels, but I'm not even sure I would use that very much..

Cheers
 
You would see a world of difference in terms of speed.

Google for the benchmarks, they're pretty close to 2-3x times faster (+ You'd get Leopard free) :)
 
Hmm.. Looks like I would do well out of it - How is the support for old PowerPC apps on the Intel systems now? When the switch first happened a friend bought a MacBook Pro to replace his iMac and he commented that things like Photoshop CS2 ran quite slowly - Now not wanting to fork out for a new copy of PS is this the case or have things improved since then?
 
"Small" PowerPC apps run okay on Intel Macs, larger programs like MS Office and Photoshop run slowly. They're not unusable but not a joy to use either. To be fair though I find it amazing that PowerPC apps run on Intel as well as they do.

However, as previously said the new MacBook are FAR faster than your old hardware so whether you'd perceive any difference I dont know.
 
If you're using a universal binary of Photoshop then it's lightning, otherwise the rosetta emulation can slow it down a bit.

It all depends if you have access to the UB of Photoshop, otherwise nearly all apps are available in both formats so no need to worry now :)
 
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