![]() The 12-inch PowerBook G4 rewarded me by being a trusty, resilient companion. I could comfortably work while commuting in impossibly crowded trains. I could carry it everywhere with a small backpack. Performance-wise was more than enough for me and it didn’t feel much slower than the 15-inch model I had been testing in the store. At the time it really felt like a fallback choice, but I soon came to appreciate the little 12-inch buddy. ![]() But I couldn’t save enough to buy one when it was finally time to upgrade, so I opted for the smaller brother. So I started saving money, aiming for the then-new 15-inch Titanium PowerBook G4, and the even better 15-inch Aluminium model. 15 POWERBOOK G4 SPECS WINDOWSBut I had to endure a small screen real estate (the iBook’s native resolution is 800×600), and sometimes, with many applications and windows open, the environment felt really cramped. 15 POWERBOOK G4 SPECS PORTABLEIt was a great performer, and it had its advantages over the iMac: a faster processor (466 MHz against the iMac’s 350), more RAM (320 MB against the iMac’s 256), a DVD drive (I already got rid of my television set, so the iBook was the only option to watch movies), a FireWire port (the iMac only had USB ports), a bigger hard drive (10 GB against the iMac’s 6.4 GB) and of course it was a sturdy, portable Mac. ![]() Personal historyĪfter my blueberry iMac G3 died a miserable death in spring 2003, my main machine at that time became the clamshell iBook G3/466 SE FireWire (graphite). Yes, the second hard drive lasted from August 2004 to August 2009, which is not bad at all, considering modern hard drives’ life expectancy. The original 4200rpm 40 GB was replaced in August 2004 with a 5400rpm 40 GB hard drive, and just a few days ago - thanks to Nicola’s generosity - I upgraded to a 5400rpm 80 GB hard drive. It has a combo optical drive (DVD‑R/CD-RW), and it’s currently at its third hard drive. Screen resolution is 1024×768 and the graphic card is a 32 MB Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200. This is the second-generation, DVI model with a PowerPC G4 at 1 GHz processor. But this piece is about what was my former main machine, which stayed with me through thick and thin from January 2004 to July 2009, and which has returned as my second machine after a forced hiatus due to hard drive failure. Don’t get me wrong, I love my current 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro: I appreciate the build quality, the design, the performance, the screen estate, and everything. Let me get this out of my system right now: the 12-inch PowerBook G4 is possibly the best laptop Apple has made.
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