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<\/p>\nI now have an Apple iBook G4 which I purchased with my economic stimulus money. It has a 1.33 GHz processor, 1.5 GB SDRAM, and a 60 GB hard drive. It is running OS X 10.4.9 Tiger. This is the first Mac I’ve owned which can run OS X. My vintage Macs were limited to OS 9.1.<\/p>\n
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I’ll be using this laptop for web development and multimedia work. I don’t plan to do any Mac development because that would be too time consuming. <\/p>\n
There is quite a lot of free software available for the Mac. I’ve installed the Firefox browser with the web developer’s toolbar add-on and Firebug. I also installed Aptana Studio<\/a> and Komodo Edit<\/a> for working on JavaScript and other code. I downloaded MAMP<\/a> (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) which installs everything a web developer needs to create dynamic web sites.<\/p>\n I’ve already managed to connect to my iBook through the Microsoft Windows Network and transfer files back and forth from my Windows XP workstation. However, I have been unable to get onto my wireless network. I have a Buffalo AirStation Wireless LAN Access Point and my Mac finds it but insists on a password and then won’t accept anything as the password. All of my Windows clients connect to the Buffalo AirStation without any configuration at all using the client software so I don’t know how to manually configure it. <\/p>\n I’m very impressed by the iBook which can play CDs and DVDs. It makes for a good mobile DVD player. The built-in speakers are terribly and can barely be heard when cranked up all the way but I can plug my headphones into it for better audio.<\/p>\n It came with iMovie and GarageBand which I’m eager to play with. I will also be running Photoshop, After Effects, and maybe Dreamweaver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I now have an Apple iBook G4 which I purchased with my economic stimulus money. It has a 1.33 GHz processor, 1.5 GB SDRAM, and a 60 GB hard drive. It is running OS X 10.4.9 Tiger. This is the … Continue reading