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 Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:28 pm Post subject: I tried to wait, but who wants to use Winders? |
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I've been wanting a PowerBook ever since my son bought one and found it completely satisfactory. One thing that was holding me back was the relatively low screen resolutions in the PowerBook line. So when Apple upgraded the 15" PowerBook to 1440 by 960 I was very, very tempted. But I thought I'd wait a while longer.
Well, this week I had occasion to use my dusty old Sony notebook, which is infested with the world's least secure operating system. So much updating, rebooting, giving permission to the firewall, updating the anti-virus software, almost a half an hour went by and I was still just getting caught up with the 53,000 newest malware threats. It had been a few weeks since I booted it up. I mean, who wants to use Winders?
So finally this morning I could no longer resist. I ordered a 15" PowerBook with a gig-o-RAM and a 120gb hard drive.
I just have one question. Is it here yet?
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| I just sort of did the same thing. I sold my IBM Thinkpad and tomorrow I am going to buy a new 12 inch iBook at our local Apple store. Today is going sooo slooow, I can't wait till tomorrow. |
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Congrats on your new purchase! You are going to love that new screen. I'm going to hold off until they ship with an Intel Processors. I really want a 15" PowerBook in the worst way. Look at my signature!  It used to say waiting for G5 powered PowerBooks. Fortunately I have my Mac mini and iMac G5 to hold me over. Reply back with how you like the screen once you get it.
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picaman
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: I tried to wait, but who wants to use Winders? |
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| Ranter wrote: | So finally this morning I could no longer resist. I ordered a 15" PowerBook with a gig-o-RAM and a 120gb hard drive.
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You were supposed to order two of them. Did you forget that I wanted one too?
 
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g5g5
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: I tried to wait, but who wants to use Winders? |
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| picaman wrote: | | Ranter wrote: | So finally this morning I could no longer resist. I ordered a 15" PowerBook with a gig-o-RAM and a 120gb hard drive.
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You were supposed to order two of them. Did you forget that I wanted one too?
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Yea, I said "I" was wating for Intel. Make that three!
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| Quote: | | I just sort of did the same thing. I sold my IBM Thinkpad and tomorrow I am going to buy a new 12 inch iBook at our local Apple store. Today is going sooo slooow, I can't wait till tomorrow. |
If you purchase it through Amazon.com, you can get the $100 rebate. It took about 10 days for my iBook from Amazon to get here.
I guess it depends on which you have more of... patience or $$$'s  |
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Ranter
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: I tried to wait, but who wants to use Winders? |
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| picaman wrote: | You were supposed to order two of them. Did you forget that I wanted one too?
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I guess I'm so old I've gotten forgetful. What was it I forgot?
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| AndyMac wrote: | | Linux is just as good as OSX. |
For running a web server, I'd say Linux is better than OS X. For using Dreamweaver and Photoshop Linux is not an option.
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| Ranter wrote: | | AndyMac wrote: | | Linux is just as good as OSX. |
For running a web server, I'd say Linux is better than OS X. For using Dreamweaver and Photoshop Linux is not an option. |
True. Windows is only as good as its user. Millions of corperations use Windows and it works fine. Aslong as your copy of Windows is up-to-date, your running an OS just as good as OSX. I myself Use Windows Everyday at work but i come home to a mac running osx. My Windows machine ran great. I had no problems with spyware or anything else. |
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Well, my PowerBook arrived on the date that Apple said they would ship it. That's not so bad. I did the Target disk move applications thing and that went pretty well. Oddly though, my Power Mac threw a kernel panic when I first powered it up after having transferred the files. It seems to have recovered OK.
Between the copying of applications and syncing with .Mac, it sure was easy to get it going.
I did have trouble at first getting the Airport connection going with our Netgear Wi-Fi router. We are using 128bit WEP encryption, and the Airport control applet seemed to want to truncate the key. I finally got it working, but I'm not certain that I know how I did it.
The build quality seems up to the extremely high standard of all Apple products.
My first impression is very good.
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| caulktel wrote: | | I just sort of did the same thing. I sold my IBM Thinkpad and tomorrow I am going to buy a new 12 inch iBook at our local Apple store. Today is going sooo slooow, I can't wait till tomorrow. |
I sorta did what you did as well. However I turned in my thinkpad to my now former employer and bought a 12" iBook. Had it for over a month now and really love it.
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| Ranter wrote: | | My first impression is very good. |
I'm on week #3 with my new 15" PB. Drove 5 hours (round-trip) to an Apple store the day that they were announced and picked up one for me and one for my other half. Still loving every minute of it!
Hadn't had them for a day or two before our friends started asking how much we'd part with our mac mini's for.  |
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