>sigh< At last a nice simple one.
The brand new G4 iBook from Mac £850 including vat. Extra memory and an Airport card fill the rest of the saved VAT nicely.
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Space for breathless prose on hardware config.
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Space for bollocks on connectivity
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No space for any discussion of dreadful operating system or on board software.
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It's a Mac - you switch it on anywhere in the world and it works. Automatic selection and switching of ethernet, dial up, or wireless.
It appears seamlessly in Windows networks and vice versa with no setup or configuration. Calendar and address book auto synch across all networks, PDA's and bluetooth phones
It fires up out of the box with software that covers everything you connect to, by with or from including e-mail, superb browser, address book integrated into every app, video, telephony, audio voice, audio music, digital photography and digital video editing
Did I mention £850 quid including tax?
And each bit of software is simply the best around. Don't believe me? iTunes, the MP3/Music library/burning software we've been using for years was released for windows today. Free download - suck it and see for yourself what intuitive software is about. While you're at it try an iPod and see how and why a complex 40 gig device has an A5 instruction sheet with less than 30 words and a photo.
Now for the important bit:
2.5 years on and my iBook is faultless - it has crashed once and it's not an underused boutique toy. I'm a permanent road warrior - no base, crew room or office. I run PPRuNe from this machine 24/7/365
I happily set the workload of this machine against any from the pool of IT experts and pros here on the forum - especially if they've bought it with their own after tax income and not on the company!!
The machine has only ever been shutdown for restarts demanded by software updates and one crash in August 2000 where Danny talked me through the restart. So is that clear?
The iBook has been switched on for 2.5 years. It travels thrust in the bottom of a flight bag crushed into the corner of a Boeing. It administers this site day in and day out usually for 7 or 8 hours a day on wireless broadband.
75% of the crew I work with have bought one as a result because we are permanently crewed together and they just see it working every single day, year after year.
Regards
Rob