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How does the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 16MB fair?
heljy:
I can get a good deal for a 600Mhz ibook with cdrom (the pervious low end model)and was wondering if it came with the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 16MB.
I would probably be doing some light gaming, but definitely not much, some warcraft 3 or other blizzard games that work with both PC and MAC.
How well does the hardware run warcraft 3 or similar games?
rtgwbmsr:
Most Blizzard Games: Great
Warcraft III: OK, if not pretty damn good.
I kludged it into working on my PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet 233 MHz w/4 MB RagePro). It was slow, but ran nonetheless. So it should have no problems on a newer 'book.
Pantso:
I have the same model with the one you mention (2002 iBook with a G3@600 MHz) which comes with the ATI Rage Mobility Graphics card (16 MBs memory). I don't know much about gaming since I'm not a gamer myself but here are some info from the Apple System Profiler if that helps.
Anyway, it is a great laptop but if you buy it you should load it with lots of RAM as well. ;)
heljy:
I just got it today!! :D
Really thrilled!
And only for $799, cause my school is selling off all the old stock that they have. Got lots of questions to ask too :
1)When I load a cd into the cd-drive, its really noisy when the disc is spinning. Is that normal?
2)And installing the airport card is not as easy as I though it will be :( how do we remove that cable that attached to the card??
3)How hard is it to reinstall a clean copy of OS X? I dun need OS 9 and some other software...and would like to dual boot with linux :D
4)Where is a good place to get cheap ram?! I know that Crucial was having a coupon for $50 off the other time, but not any longer :( Anyone know any place where I can get 512MB of ram for the ibook?
Thank!
rtgwbmsr:
quote:Originally posted by heljy:
I just got it today!! :D
Really thrilled!
And only for $799, cause my school is selling off all the old stock that they have. Got lots of questions to ask too :
1)When I load a cd into the cd-drive, its really noisy when the disc is spinning. Is that normal?
2)And installing the airport card is not as easy as I though it will be :( how do we remove that cable that attached to the card??
3)How hard is it to reinstall a clean copy of OS X? I dun need OS 9 and some other software...and would like to dual boot with linux :D
4)Where is a good place to get cheap ram?! I know that Crucial was having a coupon for $50 off the other time, but not any longer :( Anyone know any place where I can get 512MB of ram for the ibook?
Thank!
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1) How loud? Is it a grinding noise?
2) Watch this little movie (Hint: Pause it, and press space to advance the frames while you are trying to do it)
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/html/ibook/ibookdusb-apc.cip.mov.html
3) Put the CD in.
Shut down.
Press the power button, then IMMEDIATELY press and hold "C" until the installer comes up.
Might take a few tries.
Follow the instructions.
4) Crucial has some of the best prices on the planet. It will be hard to find better...
Enjoy your new Mac!
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