In 2004, I bought my first Mac. I’d used Macs for decades before that, but those Macs always belonged to someone else. The first Mac that I called my own was a 233 MHz PowerBook G3 I bought off eBay for the princely sum of US$205. It quickly became my main machine, which thrilled my wife because it meant she could have her PowerMac G4 all to herself again.
A few weeks ago, I bought an iPad 2. I had barely used an iPad before dropping $829 on one, but after two years of using various iterations of the iPhone, I expected a certain level of familiarity. Today, the iPad 2 performs most of the tasks that my MacBook Pro used to handle. In fact, besides editing and posting on TUAW, downloading files and photo editing, I barely use my Mac anymore — and considering that it has a history of breaking and is now out of warranty, that’s probably a good thing.
Now the fun part: comparing my first Mac — the PowerBook G3 — to the iPad 2. As expected, the iPad 2 is superior in almost every way. Check out the details below, noting how much the “limited” iPad, a machine that some pundits hesitate to call a “computer,” has to offer compared to the state-of-the-art from 1998.
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