Journal Falconhell's Journal: The Powerbook of the dark side 1
Beware the PowerBook of dark side.
Yes, I am typing this on an Aluminium G4 PowerBook.
It was given to me a couple of weeks ago, without power supply and hard drive. I didn't think I would ever bother fixing it. But yesterday I was bored and picked it up.
I had a older G4 400mhz PowerBook in my junk(Thought it was stuffed but turned out the powers supply cable was broken internally, so I swapped the (10 gig) drive, fixed the power supply cable and fired it up.
To my delight it is a 1.5ghz power PC with 1gig RAM.
Now I have always had a somewhat jaundiced view of macs,
but this thing is damn seductive-despite my past statements, this thing feels really nice. Well built,
reasonable performance(Apart from regular crashes of Firefox). DVD super drive etc.
So it seems I just joined the elitist minority!
The most convincing thing is that I can type without making a huge number of typo's, it seems to ease the dislexia that normally drives me nuts. The thing has such a nice keyboard!
There is of course a downside, the lack of a right mouse button, why the hell don't they have them?
Scrolling from the side of the touch pad is not available either, which is a great pity as it would make this a killer machine from an operational point of view.
Now I am in a quandry. Sitting next to me is my Dell Precision M70, a really fast centrino based machine.
Just next to that is an Latitude X300 ultraportable.
I could sell them and just use the mac, but what would my friends say? Especially those who are mac users who are sure to stick it right up me if I turn up with a mac.(Cause I have been so caustic about mac in the past.
Damn these smooth seductive curves, and the alloy finish, I have been seduced by the Powerbook of the dark side!
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