macs and harddrive speeds

[foreverain4]

so, i am thinking of getting my wife an ibook for christmas, could help but notice the speeds of the harddrives are 4200 rpm and 5400 rpm. even the power books are at 5400 rpm. i thought macs were supreme all powerfull beings?

 

[Joseph Hanna]

I'm confused...is that a question?

 

[bad intentionz]

the higher the RPM the better

 

[dgatwood]

so, i am thinking of getting my wife an ibook for christmas, could help but notice the speeds of the harddrives are 4200 rpm and 5400 rpm. even the power books are at 5400 rpm. i thought macs were supreme all powerfull beings?

The iBook is the consumer line. The PowerBook does have 7200 RPM hard drives available as a BTO option.

 

[dwillis45]

so, i am thinking of getting my wife an ibook for christmas, could help but notice the speeds of the harddrives are 4200 rpm and 5400 rpm. even the power books are at 5400 rpm. i thought macs were supreme all powerfull beings?

I wouldn't worry about the drive speed for most general applications. (I'm assuming your wife is not putting together a recording studio) If your wife likes the i-book go for it! It's light, it's cute, and they are fairly cheap compared to the Powerbook. Of course, I've had problems with every ibook I've owned. I'm on my second one since the first model bottomed out with a logic board problem that Apple never fixed after five attempts. My daughter has been through two in three years at college and her latest i-book went through a battery recall issue--something involving fire! She also had the flawed logic board and got similar results from Apple. Two of the ibooks also required replacment power supplies largely due to poor design. So, while I wouldn't worry so much about drive speed, the reliability issue might give you some pause.