Apple ibook g3 recommendations?

sunflowergirl

Hello, Please could someone advise me!
I have been looking for a second hand or refurbished ibook on the internet.
I have a small biz selling my handmade toys so I just need it for storing and editing my product images and updating my website/ answering e-mails etc. I may have to get a router if it is wireless or can you attach two systems to one virgin modem?
I have never had a mac before but am wanting a smoother running system with less problems than we get with our desktop pc.
On ebay some of the ibooks have vastly different sizes of hard drive and memory, I am unsure of how much I need as I will not be down loading music etc or playing games etc. I also need to know if a photo editing programme comes as standard.
I don't have much to spend about £150, I hope that is enough.

I have an old pc at home but my son is using it a lot for his cbeebies games, and my husband for downloading music!
Thank you for reading and any advice would be great.

sunflower

colin79666

I'd advise against a g3 as that really is quite old. G4 is OK as long as its mac os 10.4 or above with at least 512mb of ram.

The GIMP is an excellent - free image editing/creating program available for Linux, Mac and Windows.

Does it have to be a laptop? £150 is really pushing it for a reasonable laptop but you can get a desktop for basic internet and the like in your budget.

sunflowergirl

thanks, I will look at a g4 and increasing budget. I wanted a portable system so I can take it with me when I need to work on my biz away from home in the future.

sunflowergirl

Hello again,
I have had a look at g4 ibooks as recommended but they are unfortunatly out of my price range my max is £200. Would an older g3 not be able to do all I need or is it not worth getting an older mac at all?
thanks again

colin79666

Well a G3 probably won't be capable of running mac os 10.4 and certainly not 10.5. Added to that a G3s battery is unlikely to still be in full working order and battery life of less than an hour kinda defeats the purpose of having a laptop.

If you can afford to wait a bit and save some more once you get to the £300 price bracket you can just about afford a new PC laptop (with warranty and decent battery).

knightstyle

30111987 is so right, go for G4 1.25ghz and upgrade as soon as you can to OSX 10.4 It will probably come with a basic version of Adobe Photoshop. Plus Iphoto to sort out your pics. Have a look at https://www.macworld.co.uk for info and tips.