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MSI Wind all the way XP + OS X.]]>Feb 3rd 2009 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
I would maybe pick one up for 50 bucks, but anything more and i would have been ripped off.]]>Feb 3rd 2009 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
The white Wind with the logo mod looks exactly like something Apple would make. ]]>Feb 3rd 2009 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
Honestly.

What's sad is that an atom based netbook is probably cheaper. So sad.]]>Feb 3rd 2009 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 4th 2009 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/While the ibook is indeed an old platform and not exactly the best thing to buy if you are searching for a cheap and portable computing solution nowadays, the rest of your comment is just stupid fanboy bullshit.
You are not locked to OSX. There are many linux variants that still support the power PC architecture (and will continue so for quite a bit). And even if you keep OSX, it is still going strong on the G4 (and as you can see if even beats the atoms in some respects), and it doesnt seem like netbooks will get any stronger soon (thanks to MS stupid 1,6GHz/ 1 GB limit).
The size is also arguable. While 10 or even 9" netbooks are way more portable, the ibooks 12" screen is more comfortable for many folks.
Also baterry is an issue: Many netbooks are around 3h, while you can get more with the ibook. Of course this is all relative, since there are indeed netbooks that offer way more battery life, and many ibooks simply have old batteries, that dont have much life left.
so to conclude:
would i suggest an ibook for anyone searching for a netbook? probably not.
But this report is great news for me, who was thinking about replacing my ibook with a netbook. Since they are eqaly powered, i will gain nothing from getting me a netbook. so i keep my ibook and have more money to use on other stuff.

qwert]]>Feb 4th 2009 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
Got an Acer Aspire One netbook to replace mine, selling the Acer One and going back to the Powerbook :)

Got Ubuntu Linux and OS X Leopard running happily on its 1GHz G4 and 1.25GB of RAM :)]]>Feb 4th 2009 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
He said current. As far as I know the RROD is an issue of the past.]]>Feb 4th 2009 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/what hard ware
i thought they payed other people to build it for them
correct me if im wrong
]]>Feb 3rd 2009 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
You mean like everyone else? Or am I running a special mac book that has non-apple manufactured parts. I guess iPod Nanos aren't Samsung flash memory sticks with a 3rd party LCDs...]]>Feb 3rd 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/rrod?]]>Feb 3rd 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
Outside of a few small issues (RROD and Dec 31) I'd say they do fine work.]]>Feb 3rd 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/hardware
paid
I'm]]>Feb 3rd 2009 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/they dont build ANY of there stuff
correct me if im wrong
some chinese company made the 360
same w/ the zune
and
the various mice and keyboards
are various companys
i want to say mostly logitech
but i think that wrongs idk
]]>Feb 3rd 2009 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
@ topic: In my experience, Microsoft-designed hardware supports its purpose well. Of course, there is no excuse for it not to, regarding ANY company. When you tailor your hardware towards your software it runs smoothly...

P.S. @KAIKAI:

Are your
Comments supposed to
Be like poetry?
The enter button
Is primarily used
To separate paragraphs
not
ideas
or scraps of thought.]]>Feb 3rd 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/we were talking about microsoft ?
were we not ?]]>Feb 3rd 2009 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/So you want to tell me all of those RROD Xboxes are just our imagination? :o]]>Feb 4th 2009 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 4th 2009 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
Leave the Zune out of this, it has enough of a fight on it's hands.]]>Feb 4th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
How did you get that from this article?]]>Feb 3rd 2009 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
On second thought after reading the benchmarks I think this is a fail on the part of the tester. He never once tells you what OS X variant is on the hacintosh or the G4. Most benchmarks I read go into such depth as to tell you what hex code color the connector is on the video card much less make sure everything else is close to the same as possible.]]>Feb 4th 2009 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 4th 2009 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
I wonder how mac os would run on nvidia's Ion setup...]]>Feb 3rd 2009 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
"...those of you searching for an OS X netbook can skip the EULA violations and just hunt down an old 12-inch PowerBook G4."

Fuck that. You're still better off with a Hackintosh'ed netbook. The days of PPC-compatible software are numbered and you could at least dual-boot whatever OS came with the netbook to begin with.]]>Feb 3rd 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Yeah, I don't like compiling either.
...but they're only 'numbered' in the proprietary realm. Truly portable code isn't going to give you trouble.]]>Feb 3rd 2009 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
I'd be a part of that lawsuit if my modern game console shipped with a CD drive, too. Fortunately for me, I got a DVD drive in my console that requires a DVD drive to play it's DVD based games.]]>Feb 3rd 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
STFU, every company could screw up, and Apple is not an exemption.]]>Feb 5th 2009 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/I'd get a Wind if these numbers are correct.]]>Feb 3rd 2009 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/
You use the camera once or twice at first, but you use the keyboard every freakin' day. A hackbook is a good for messing around at a coffee shop, but for real use there is no comparison with the powerbook.

That being said, how much ram did the ibook have? What model g4 was it? And how would it compare with my 12" 1.5 with 1.25 gigs of ram and a new hard drive?]]>Apr 10th 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Feb 3rd 2009 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/ibook-g4-benchmarked-against-hackintosh-netbook-comes-out-even/Dude, do you really think that the OSX on the iPhone is actually OSX? Do you also believe that Windows Mobile is ACTUALLY a slimmed down Windows Kernel??????? What has the world come to!?!?]]>Feb 3rd 2009 9:49PM