Oh Beautiful Mac o' Mine (I got my PowerBook!)

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-07-20 12:37am

Huh? I configged a PowerBook on the site, and it turned to be cheaper than a ThinkPad from IBM.

Anyway, cool stuff. Friend has a PowerBook and it works great. Be careful with Apple support though; he spilled milk on the keyboard and Apple charged him $1k (!) to service at a depot. Fortunately he found someplace else to do it, but still...

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-07-20 11:33am

Congradulations on your new Mac! I'm jealous

Running a 12" PowerBook (rev B) here. In case you didn't know the revisions, you have a rev C PowerBook. I want a 15"

YT300000 wrote:
Zaia wrote:A few months ago, I posted a thread in here about Mac vs. PCs to get a good idea about their strengths and weaknesses because I was getting a laptop. After much research, interviewing, and saving of t3h money
Uh... wait... you saved money by buying a mac? Are we in different dimensions or something? Because over here, a mac costs twice as much as a PC with the same stuff inside. Both for desktops and laptops.

Some Macs laptops coss LESS than some PC's in the US (excluding the 17-incher). Do you live in Europe?

Check out the iBook G4. Radeon 9200, 30 gig hard drive, 12" screen, shell made from bulletproof materials, DDR RAM, DVD/CD-RW, and loads of software, for $1099, or $999 if you're a college student.

All the PowerBooks have built in wireless, 60 to 80 gigabyte hard drives, 64 or 128 MB graphics cards, DVD/CD-RW or DVD-RW, are 1 inch thin, and start at $1599 ($1399 with edu discount).

Apple's support is pretty good, btw. If the PowerBook has trouble, they fix it. If you break the laptop yourself (milk, a hammer, etc), that's your problem, but that's how it is with *all* computer dealers...

On the wireless subject, the slowest wireless (802.11b) has a max speed of 11 mbps, average of about 4 mbps. Broadband is somewhere between 256k and 3 mbps.
The faster one, 802.11g, has a top speed of 54 mbps, average of 22 or so. Guess what- that's PLENTY fast for internet! WAY more than you need for internet. Might slow down network file transfers a bit (since ethernet is usually 100 mbps these days), but way faster than needed for internet.

Oh, one more thing. DON'T BUY RAM FROM APPLE! Both Apple, Dell, and all the other major manufacturers seriously overcharge for RAM. Check Apple's "what memory to buy" section for PowerBooks. Actually, I'll check it for you.

The RAM your Mac (latest 15" model) needs is:
256MB PC2700 DDR333 SO-DIMM

I assume 200-pin, as thats what usually goes in laptops.
Buy that memory from crucial.com here http://www.crucial.com/store/listModule ... allModules
for about half of Apple's and Dell's prices.

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-07-20 05:47pm

Oh, too late; I bought extra memory the day I bought my Powerbook. With the educational discount and the fact that I got it the same day as my computer, it came out to be $90 for 256Mb with installation (because I don't trust myself). *shrugs* Whatev. I'm just so happy I finally have this computer, I really don't care.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-07-20 08:57pm

Praxis wrote:Some Macs laptops coss LESS than some PC's in the US (excluding the 17-incher). Do you live in Europe?

Nope, Calgary, Canada.

I'm not actually looking for a laptop, and if I was it certainly wouldn't be a mac. No matter how much they have improved over the past few years, I don't like them. Even when I've used a $10 000 G5 with everything in it, it felt more like a chore then like a pleasure.

Azazel · Post by **Azazel** » 2004-07-20 09:08pm

Yeah, the wireless I have is 802.11b at 12mb/s.

Xisiqomelir · Post by **Xisiqomelir** » 2004-07-22 12:05am

Zaia wrote:
Xisiqomelir wrote:Congratulations!

Have you always had a Macintosh?
Nope, made the swtich officially today.

Downloads for you:

Fink (to run *nix stuff): http://fink.sourceforge.net/

OS X native Gimp: http://www.macgimp.org/

And though I do like Safari and Mail, I'm using Camino and Thunderbird atm, so

http://www.mozilla.org/

Axis Kast · Post by **Axis Kast** » 2004-07-22 02:04am

The 17" has the keyboard back-lights. And it's mine. All mine.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-07-22 02:05pm

Don't forget,
http://www.versiontracker.com
Loads of Mac freeware and shareware. Occasionally something rather good. Also check out Apple's downloads, they host a lot of freeware people make.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-07-22 02:27pm

Axis Kast wrote:The 17" has the keyboard back-lights. And it's mine. All mine.

You lucky bastard. I want a glow-in-the-dark Apple desktop keyboard.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-07-22 08:23pm

Axis Kast wrote:The 17" has the keyboard back-lights. And it's mine. All mine.

Bastard

GoldenFalcon wrote:Anyway, cool stuff. Friend has a PowerBook and it works great. Be careful with Apple support though; he spilled milk on the keyboard and Apple charged him $1k (!) to service at a depot. Fortunately he found someplace else to do it, but still...

Apple does not offer a "complete" warranty that covers accidential damage, so one should be careful about that. IIRC, you can usually purchase such a warranty from third parties for a monthly fee (essentially insurance).

Xisiqomelir · Post by **Xisiqomelir** » 2004-07-23 05:13am

Axis Kast wrote:The 17" has the keyboard back-lights. And it's mine. All mine.

Yes, my PB 17" is very wonderful ^^

I can't understand all these people who talk about it being hefty

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-07-23 11:52am

I want a 17"...
Or even a 15"...
Or even a 14"...

All I got is 12"

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