Apple iBook G4 Review

Good Points
Great value for what's in the box. Although small and compact, powerful enough to handle most operations. Great battery performance.

Bad Points
Software is bloated. Need to include MS Office for Mac in sofware bundle rather than offering a trial period. Airport Extreme base station a bit pricey compared to other wireless alternatives.

General Comments
Overall this Apple iBook G4 is a great notebook for the cost. The 12in iBook has outperformed some of the other portables that I have owned. My iBook came packaged w/ 40GB hard drive (which was eaten up by the apps) 24GB available upon initial boot up, 1.33mhz processor, 512k memory and standard Airport Wireless and Bluetooth capabilities. This notebook is small but strong. Not recommended for extreme gaming, but that's what desktop pc's are for right?

OS X Tiger is a bit bloated and eats up hd space. It is strongly recommended that one either takes the time to remove unused apps or upgrade the hd capacity during purchase.

If you are looking for either a strong entry level notebook or looking for something portable for business or education purposes this is a great notebook. If you are looking for a gaming notebook, either upgrade to the Powerbook or go with another brand.

The only qualm that I have with my machine is when it boots up OS X. Boot up is delayed which leaves the user to believe that the machine did not power up or is in sleep. Give it about 20-30 seconds and it comes to life. After removing about 10GB of apps, boot time increased quite drastically. (Again this is due to the OS being bloated). My recommendation for Apple is to ship their notebooks with the OS and its minimal apps loaded, and provide cd's that allow the user to add what apps will be used at a later date.