Quote (bob(Cs2) @ Fri, Oct 16 2009, 04:30am)
I suppose it is. This is down to the fact that a Beginner guitar is the bare minimum needed to strum. I'd imagine the Ibanez has a floyd rose? Or perhaps it has EMG pickups? Either way, the Fenders are real basic guitars at the lower end of the price spectrum, and this is what a beginner needs. No point in giving a beginner a guitar with lots of fancy stuff because it won't help them progress until a later stage.
Regardless your ibanez is hand over fist better than the squier. Squiers are absolutely god awful guitars, especially the beginner ones. Keep the ibanez, no point in taking a step down.