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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: rtgwbmsr on 20 February 2003, 23:13
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I had a chance to play with the 12'' PowerBooks yesterday (they didn't have 17's on display yet...) Here are a bunch of my observations, if you were thinking of buying one:
1) It's a miniture iBook with a G4, in case you didn't already know. It's so close, that I mistook it for an iBook with the lighting in the room! It is a good bit smaller than the iBook, and it feels a lot more solid though.
2) It gets pretty hot while it's running, but this thing could fry eggs if you leave it on while you are charging the battery. I couldn't keep my hand on it for more than 5 seconds without some pain.
3) It's speedy. I ran a few photoshop tests, and it seems to be nice and fast. Too bad none of them had Quake 3 (http://tongue.gif)
4) Battery life is excellent, better than that of the iBooks. You could actually get 4-5 hours with Airport wireless on. I only played with it for 3 hours, and it said it had about 40-45 minutes left when I was done.
5) The keyboard didn't feel that cramped while I was typing, but the function keys were small enough to bother me.
6) It has the same great external monitor support as the 15'' PowerBook.
7) Airport extreme rocks. As usual, the Apple store and Tekserve had their own wireless networks for me to play with. Transferring files was nice and fast (I got a full signal, BTW) probably a little under half of what my 100 MBps wired network at home does, which is right on par with Apple's claims.
OK, that's it for my input. In case you were wondering what I was doing in Tekserve for 3 hours, and in the Apple Store for 1.5 hours, I was having my PBG3 checked out...
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Lucky you, I was a bit iff'y about viewing this because i was expecting a pic of Dustin putting 12 inchs into a powerbook.
You lucky barsted with a real computer.
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the title of this thread goes to show how mac users really *are* sexually attracted to their computers.
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Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
the title of this thread goes to show how mac users really *are* sexually attracted to their computers.
Are you sayin its a bad thing, Don't you have a sexual attraction towards your favorite Linux Box?
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quote:
Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
the title of this thread goes to show how mac users really *are* sexually attracted to their computers.
"you know, when i wake up and my g4 is sitting there, its like..damn..you know..... um.. LOL, im playin, just fuckin around.. yeah. thats all. thems was jokes. jokes n' shit. i wasn't..um.. serious. right"
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Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
the title of this thread goes to show how mac users really *are* sexually attracted to their computers.
I was going to leave the word "PowerBook" out of the title, and see how many brave souls clicked on it anyway... :D :D :D
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http://www.mac-mike.com
Intrigued, I played on a 15" Powerbook running OS X. Within minutes I was hooked - no - utterly seduced by the sheer sexuality of the Mac OS X experience. I've since tried to apply objectivity to this emotion and cannot come up with a logical explanation for my love affair. Is it the software? Is it the beautifully crafted hardware? I can't answer, but regrettably, the desire felt has been expressed through my wallet.
I'm not the only one!
And the Mac does tell jokes. Turn speech on, hold 'esc' and say "Tell Me a Joke", and it will.
[ February 20, 2003: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]
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Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Comrade Captain:
Are you sayin its a bad thing, Don't you have a sexual attraction towards your favorite Linux Box?
no but i do have one towards the kernel source code (open vim and jack off)
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Now you know why they took the floppy drives off of Macs.
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there was something that I was going to say... but I forgot it now. if I remember, I'll edit this post
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There is a HUGE thread about the 12'' PowerBooks having charging and heat issues.
Apple is replacing early 12'' PB's DC Boards (I think that's what it was...)
And the heat appears to be coming from the hard drive area.
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Muffin Man, have you ever read the book A Conferdercy of Dunces? Your joke sounds like something from it, where Ignatius puts a sign on his hot-dog vending cart that says: "Ten Inches of Paradise". Everyone runs.
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wtf is it with people and boning their computers, shall we call this fetish computaphillia or floppydiskality?