PowerBook first thoughts
Ok, as soon as I got this powerbook I decided I’d write a review of my first impressions. I’ve had it for over a week and I’m just now getting aroud to writing this up.
- I love the screen. I know its not significantly larger than the iBook 14″ I had, but the widescreen makes a significant difference. In terms of screen space, I’d always rather have more width. Most windows don’t need to grow taller, but I could always have more widows open side-by side. +1
- The dev tools weren’t installed and there wasn’t a CD, so I went digging for the last CD version I had then downloaded an updater. It was only after this 2 hour ordeal did I realize that there was an installer package in /Applications. +0 for Apple (should have a CD), -1 for me
- The trackpad feels coarser than my iBook was. Perhaps my iBook trackpad was broken in after 2 years of use -1
- The keyboard is more comfortable +1
- ONLY 256M of RAM! I know I could have ordered more if I’d bought from the Apple store, but that’s a rip off. In my opinion, no G4 machine should even be offered with 256M of RAM, 512 would be my bare minimum. My 1.33GHz G4 feels slower than my 800MHz G3 (w/ 680MB of RAM) was. OS X is RAM hungry, why won’t Apple feed it? I just ordered a 1G RAM stick to solve this problem -1
+1 for Apple, -1 for me
November 18th, 2004 at 4:01 am
Dang it, ryan….I always forget about this site b/c usually I just check my new postings from xanga subscriptions, so then I feel like I aweful friend and have to catch up on the last who knows how long of your life. You get a stupid point for having to be difficult with this site, however I do appreciate your individuality which you get a cool point for, so according to your system….you break even….but barely. I miss you! I won’t be in KC again until December…I’m spending Thanksgiving in Chi-town with brother #1 (numbered by age, nothing more). Guess what?!? You’re going to San Fran in like 2 months! How freakin’ cool is that?!? :-)