NotebookForums.com › Forums › Notebook Manufacturers › Apple Notebook Forums › Apple Notebooks › Apple ibook v. Fujitsu s6231
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Apple ibook v. Fujitsu s6231

post #1 of 9
3/22/05 at 10:27pm
Thread Starter 
Hi-
This is my first time posting here but I have been on other notebook forums. I have been doing a lot of research and seem to be stuck. I am going to be in college next year and am looking for a laptop. I have never owned one before and also never used a Mac before. I want to use the laptop to do basic school work like type papers and stuff but also download music, use Photoshop 7, watch DVD's, have wireless networking, multitask, and be fast enough that I am not frustrated. Also affordable (1000 - 1500). I do not plan on doing much gaming either. I have been doing research for a while and narrowed it down to the Fajitsu s6231 or the Apple ibook (not sure of 12 in or 14 in). Like I said I have never used a Mac so I am a little hesitant on making the switch. My question is which one should I go with and why. Any advice would be great. Thanks.

P.S. also good battery life. and try not to be too baised.
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 9
3/22/05 at 10:46pm
well i've never owned an apple notebook. i have 2 pc laptops. i just bought a mac mini a couple weeks ago. i've went from one extreme (alienware area-51m) to the other (HP dv1040us) in laptops. i love the HP - light, fast, small, does everything (even burns dvd's at 8x). but since i just got the mac mini, i like it alot and it makes me want an apple laptop. no one can tell you which to buy, that's up to you, but mac os x is awesome so far. i'm still getting used to it though.
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 9
3/23/05 at 3:37am
Recently I was looking to get another laptop. I did conside powerbook, but decided that they are overpriced and offer less perfomance tham their pc equivalents. Also I did some research and shown me that they suffer same problems as others, maybe even more. But I have to give them one thing, they look very good. Personally I believe that iPods is the best think that Apple is making. And maybe they should stick to it.
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 9
3/23/05 at 11:43am
Quote:
Originally Posted by cavscout
Recently I was looking to get another laptop. I did conside powerbook, but decided that they are overpriced and offer less perfomance tham their pc equivalents. Also I did some research and shown me that they suffer same problems as others, maybe even more. But I have to give them one thing, they look very good. Personally I believe that iPods is the best think that Apple is making. And maybe they should stick to it.
have you ever owned an apple computer before? you can't reallly compare hardware to a pc. they are like apples and oranges basically. yeah every computer has a chance of having problems, but that risk comes with every computer. since i just bought a mac mini, i think that a powerbook seems like a great choice. my mini only has 256mb of ram, but the performance is way better than a pc with 256mb of ram.
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 9
3/23/05 at 12:56pm
dosequis,
i'd go w/ the iBook, particularly the 12" if u r looking for a more portable machine. last fall i was narrowing in on the Sony S series and the iBook. The iBook being about ~$1000 cheaper sold me on it. it can multitask like nobody's business, and u WILL NOT regret getting the discrete video. only issue w/ the 12" model is the fact that u can't configure it w/ a DVD burner. that may very likely change in april-may when the next revision is most likely to occur again. personally i haven't had the need for a burner on the iBook. any dvd projects i've worked on i've simply dropped over the network onto my windows desktop machine and burnt it @ a sweet 16x
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 9
3/23/05 at 1:25pm
the ibooks are real good value for money, they do a great job at multitaking, but you should consider getting 512 mb of ram or more.

the battery lige on the ibook is more than enough to watch a full dvd so your alright over there note that the 14 inch ibook has slightly longer battery life than the 12 inch but they are both in the 4-5+ hours range. the mac is quiet easy to use but it will take some getting use to maybe just a few days playing around with it just to get the hang of it.

the Fajitsu lifebook (if that is the notebook your talking aobut) has a shared graphic system meaning that it shares the system ram for graphic memeory and system memeory, but the ibook has 32 mb of deicated video ram. the processor speeds on both the systems is more or less even but some things the pc will be faster at and others the ibook, but on multitaking mac wins.

i would say you should get a 14 inch ibook the 1.3 ghz model with 512 mb of ram (if you want to save more money by the ibook just with 256mb of ram and by cheaper ram later off a thrid-party) if you can get apple education discount it will be even cheaper.
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 9
3/23/05 at 2:43pm
i'd echo the RAM issue. don't order from apple. use a ram price search site like ramseeker or dealram
Reply
Reply
post #8 of 9
3/23/05 at 2:57pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by twoodcc
have you ever owned an apple computer before? you can't reallly compare hardware to a pc. they are like apples and oranges basically. yeah every computer has a chance of having problems, but that risk comes with every computer. since i just bought a mac mini, i think that a powerbook seems like a great choice. my mini only has 256mb of ram, but the performance is way better than a pc with 256mb of ram.
No, but I did considered to get 15' powerbook. But they have to be joking. My gateway cost 1.4k. Comparable notebook goes for about 2.3k. Apple got to be joking. Pure economics did not allow me to buy PB. Apples are good but not that good. I'm not bashing Apple, but they should stick to making iPods, at least that people can actually afford and product is good quality.
Reply
Reply
post #9 of 9
3/23/05 at 6:25pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by cavscout
No, but I did considered to get 15' powerbook. But they have to be joking. My gateway cost 1.4k. Comparable notebook goes for about 2.3k. Apple got to be joking. Pure economics did not allow me to buy PB. Apples are good but not that good. I'm not bashing Apple, but they should stick to making iPods, at least that people can actually afford and product is good quality.
your comparing a gateway to a apple, you cant go very far with that.

at least compare a high end think pad or a alienware notebook to a powerbook.
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Apple Notebooks
NotebookForums.com › Forums › Notebook Manufacturers › Apple Notebook Forums › Apple Notebooks › Apple ibook v. Fujitsu s6231