New Toys On The Horizon
05/03/05 Filed in: Folderol
Most of you who know me know that I'm a Mac user. I'm
not a mac bigot, necessarily;
I've used both PC's and Macs, though from my
perspective, the Mac has a superior operating system.
And it just got superior-er, with the release
of
Mac OS
version 10.4 'Tiger'.
This afternoon, I ordered a
new
ibook,
tricked out to max disk size and ram, with a
'superdrive' DVD burner. Why the ibook? My
current model, a 500 mhz G3 'icebook', has done
yeoman work, but it has a comparatively tiny hard
drive (my ipod
has a larger drive...), no burner, and is starting to
experience wacky screen problem.
I looked long and hard at the Powerbooks, and almost caved on the 12“ model cause its so damn cool looking... but that screen, same resolution as my ibook, seems much, much smaller to me. (I'm getting a 14” ibook. Yes, same resolution, but larger pixels for my no longer perfect eyesight) And, I was concerned about wifi reception. Jo has a 15“ Powerbook, and her reception is great if she's sitting right next to the Airport in the den, but pretty crappy when we're in the office, which is across the hall. My desk is 2 feet closer to the door, but still, I'm leery. Tiger is pre-loaded on the new machine, and of course, all the 'ilife' apps. (I was never able to run iDVD and Garageband on this one.)
So now the waiting game begins. It should ship tonight or tomorrow. I've spent money, so naturally, I'm sick about it.
I looked long and hard at the Powerbooks, and almost caved on the 12“ model cause its so damn cool looking... but that screen, same resolution as my ibook, seems much, much smaller to me. (I'm getting a 14” ibook. Yes, same resolution, but larger pixels for my no longer perfect eyesight) And, I was concerned about wifi reception. Jo has a 15“ Powerbook, and her reception is great if she's sitting right next to the Airport in the den, but pretty crappy when we're in the office, which is across the hall. My desk is 2 feet closer to the door, but still, I'm leery. Tiger is pre-loaded on the new machine, and of course, all the 'ilife' apps. (I was never able to run iDVD and Garageband on this one.)
So now the waiting game begins. It should ship tonight or tomorrow. I've spent money, so naturally, I'm sick about it.
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