Re: new computer
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.STTNWAHO.covad.net)
Date: July 19, 2003 05:36PM
PowerBooks are great!—even my first-generation 500 MHz one running OS 9 with only CD-ROM. I don't take it quite everywhere, but it has been invaluable over the last two plus years, bridging the gap between my aging Dell and my new iMac very nicely and enabling me to get things done even when I am away from home. (This is frequent, since my parents travel a lot and I housesit for them.) I network it to my iMac for easy and speedy file transfer. It has the lovely 15" screen, making it possible for me to use (my focal distance is very short and I am very tall, so am forced to lean over it a lot), and because it is a widescreen format I can have quite a large working area in InDesign and still have room for the forest of palettes as well. (This is great, of course, though all the same I am very much looking forward to InDesign 3, because I hear that the palette problem has been addressed to some extent.) I will upgrade it to OS X when Panther comes out this fall, which will be nice because then I can use my iPod with it as well.
I have loved the iBooks since they first appeared. Until they had the 14" screen they were too small for me to see well enough, however, and alas they still run on G3 processors. However, I love that the ports are all on the left side instead of the back, and the hinge for the screen is great. Apple really did it right with the iBook, like the iMac—good, powerful computers for quite reasonable (for Apple) prices. Of course it helps that they are way stylish. :) (Mind you, I am a bit disappointed with the appearance of the new G5 PowerMacs; I hope that by the time I need one they will have improved it somewhat!)