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Feeling outdated? Never! Are you using an older iBook or PowerBook? It seems that Apple’s product line changes every time you tear a page from your 12-month calendar, and every new generation of laptops includes new whiz-bang features. Sometimes you can add those features separately to your older machine — such as an external iSight camera or an AirPort Extreme card — but you can’t update things like your iBook’s motherboard. Sigh. Here’s my take on this situation: If your older laptop does what you need at a pace you can accept, there is no need to upgrade it. Skeptical? Here’s the proof: Before my recent upgrade to a MacBook Pro, yours truly was lugging a pristine iBook G3, which booted Tiger and did absolutely everything that I demanded. (A little more patience was required, certainly, but technology authors are simply brimming with patience.) The moral is here too: Avoid the upgrade fever unless you really need a new companion! If your laptop bears the iBook or PowerBook logo, you can still enjoy this book and discover new tips and tricks from it! Unless the new breed of Intel-based Mac laptops has a feature that you absolutely can’t use on your iBook (such as booting directly into Windows), you can sail on with your current computer, fiercely proud of The Bitten Apple that appears on the cover. Although this book was written with the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines in mind, virtually everything you read here still applies to your older laptop.

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