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Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 13:28

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Andy

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Location:	Wisbech, Cambs, United Kingdom
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OK.....had it for nearly two months so thought that I had better do a review / post some comments, thoughts on my iBook.

Upgraded the OS to Leopard and installed some new software, with the help of Robert, and upgraded RAM to 1.25MB.
Got it to try the Mac world and to mainly carry out office type work....word, excel, emails etc and to date I haven't had any problems with the performance on this front.
Browsing the internet was fine with Safari but i did find it a bit slow when trying to watch videos on YouTube (great source of info on upgrading Macs) so have installed Camino as the web browser which seems to be quicker.
Installed YouView specifically to watch YouTube videos which is even quicker than Camino.
Photo editing......CS2 is installed and works but not sure if I would actually trust the amendments / changes that are viewable on the screen.....still think that I will be using Windows PC for this.....blasphemy I hear you say!!
InDesign & Illustrator seem OK for what I use them for.
Tried to install Lightroom but won't work with this processor neither will a copy of Aperture (£5 from ebay) which is a bit disappointing.
All in all I'm very pleased with the £80 it cost me on ebay.

Only problem is that I might need another one to handle the photography side of things!

Posted: Sun Jun 10th, 2012 14:02

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Robert

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Good to hear you are up and running Andy.

The confidence will come with use Mac screens tend to be more accurate especially on laptops. You need to set the gamma somewhere between the standard Mac setting of 2.2 and the PC setting of 1.8, I read that somewhere and it seems to work well enough.

So, having dipped your toe in the water you think you may step in?

DId you try Firefox or Opera?

Using Safari there are some easy ways to save You Tube video's.

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