UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Chit Chat Question for Mac people

My school has this big fancy special offer for JMC majors, and I'm wanting to know if it's a good deal. I know basically nothing about Mac hardware (like, how their processors compare to Wintel), so I want to know if the hardware is going to be good and last a long time.

Specs:
iBook
600mhz G3 RISC processor
12.1" TFT XGA display (1024x768 rez)
128MB ram
20GB hdd
5 hour Lithium Ion battery
10/100 Ethernet
56k internal modem
DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive
OSX

Software bundle:
Adobe Design Collection (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat)
Macromedia Web Design Studio (Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Freehand 10)
MS Office v.X

Price: $1948.85

I know just the software bundle alone is worth close to the total price anyway. So I know pricewise it's a really good deal. But somehow the hardware just sounds really low to me... s'pecially the 1024x768 max rez - that just doesn't seem to match up with all the graphics apps they are givin' ya.

Thank in advance for any advice.

Oh yeah, and while we're on the subject of Macs, does anyone know whether you can run OSX with VMWare?

---Jamin

The hardware looks a bit old to me, too. And its a G3... You could pop some extra RAM in it for almost nothing.. but...