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Is a second hand iBook worth buying? Posted by Michael on 04 Sep 2006 - 22:49
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With the advent of the Intel based Macintosh people have been dropping their old power pc based Mac's in order to upgrade to the latest and greatest, which should mean it's a great time for the budget conscious buyer to pickup a Mac second hand. Your probably thinking, "yes, I'd love to get one of those and the price is great" but hold on...
Is everything as good as it seems in Mac land a year later down the road? In this article I'll be taking a look at a 12" G4 iBook read on to find out more about this machine and what I've found.
Testing machine history
The 12" iBook G4 (fitted with 1gb ram) used for this test was purchased late 2005 for use by a university student. Since its purchase it has been used periodically (best guess 1 in 10 days) for note taking in law lectures. It has always been protected properly and never treated improperly (eg left on the back seat of the car on a 40 degree Celsius day) so everything should be fair to the iBook and the problems pointed out will probably be common with other people's findings.
For readability purposes the article will be broken down into two sections, one highlighting points to look at/note for the chassis and the other for the input aspect (keyboard & touch pad)
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