[BkueKanoodle]

Last month I sold my 1 gig tibook with the intention of buying a tablet pc. I did buy a tablet and though I thought it was very cool, it was missing something, a certain style, a little flair, a little .... Mac-ness. So I went out and bought an ibook thinking that would fix my apples jone's for a while. Wrong, soon I needed more, something faster, prettier, something MAC-er.

I'm telling you, its like a drug. Apple got their greedy little claws into me again, (i thought I kicked the habit for good back in 95) and I'm right back where I started 6 months ago. I bought an ibook in December,to "do some testing on" is what I told myself. Pretty soon my windows laptop was sitting lonely on the shelf. 2 months later i bought the tibook, and thats when I knew I was in trouble. I was falling asleep at night with my wife on one side and my ti on the other. I thought I could kick the habit, I thought I could control myself. I can quit anytime I want. really I can. See, I'll prove it, I sold my ti and went back to windows.my ibook sat on the shelf while I had my fling with the tablet. But like a cheap mistress,the tablet quickly wore on me. I found myself wishing for some work that I could only use a mac for. I tried to tell myself that I could just use the mac for a little bit, that one little use wouldn't ruin me. In case you haven't figured it out, within 24 hours of turning the ibook on, I was standing in a compusa in the middle of the night, (OK rushing in before closing) shaking the the sales rep and screaming "GIVE ME THE GOOD STUFF! I KNOW YOU HAVE GOT IT! DON"T BOGART THE APPLES MAN, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I NEED IT NOW!!!!!!!!!"

My name is Bkuekanoodle, and I'm a mac-aholic.

[nekura]

Guess it's time for you to update your signature then, eh? =)

I knew from the moment I played with a 17" PowerBook in CompUSA that I had to have one. Today, I finally took the plunge and finally ordered it from Apple, along with an iSight. Soon, I'll be getting a Logitech MX 500 mouse, additional RAM, and a Spire Volt XL bookbag to carry it in.

Congratulations on your 12" PowerBook purchase; I attended summer college at the University of Delaware from June 21st till July 26th, and a person on the floor above me had one. I must admit that although the screen is too small for my tastes, it can't be beat for portability, and the damned thing was just so cute.

[juanpacolopez]

Originally posted by BkueKanoodle:
"GIVE ME THE GOOD STUFF! I KNOW YOU HAVE GOT IT! DON"T BOGART THE APPLES MAN, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I NEED IT NOW!!!!!!!!!"

My name is Bkuekanoodle, and I'm a mac-aholic.

Yeah... I'm with you....

I bought an iBook about a year and a half ago... it was a sweet machine, but a little underpowered. I found myself contemplating building myself a nice desktop PC to run Linux on and do my "heavy lifting" and maybe dual boot windows for some gaming...

However, when my girlfriend's laptop died and she needed the iBook (leaving me to finally buy a new, faster machine) I just couldn't resist the Ti. I went over to a friend's house and used his Linux/Windows machine for a bit to try out some new PC hardware I'd missed out on (RADEON 9800, 3.2Ghz P4)... I'll admit, it SCREAMED, especially in Linux.

At the end of the night, however, I found myself longing for my iBook, despite it's massively inferior firepower. The next day my hunt for a TiBook began, and was ravenously pursued until my addiction was fed once again.

Congrats on the new 12". Damn fine machines. The only reason I didn't get one is because I wanted more of a desktop replacement (read bigger screen), and the extra VRAM for gaming.

[LfGrdMike]

hehe Sorry its early in the morning I might of missed something. Did you sell your TI, iBook, and Tablet 's. NOTICE I HAVE AN "S" hehe

As I have read on some forum before

"Once You go Mac you never go Back"

Lets add twist to it.

"Once you Go mac You will go back, but then you will go back again knowing what the better system is"



Face it your more productive on that apple of yours!

[jsnyder]

I must admit, I'm basically an addict as well. My first machine was a PowerBook 1400. It was slow, could barely play MP3s and do other stuff at the same time but I used it and loved it for 4 years. Around the same time I began to become interested in Linux and when the time came that I really couldn't use the PowerBook any more (battery would barely get it to boot fully) I was lured away from mac land by the cheapness of PC hardware and the lure of the ever tweakable linux. But it never felt right. I could never get linux precisely the way I wanted it and Windows always felt wrong, even with XP being rather stable. After numerous hardware failures that ended costing me quite a bit, I bought an iBook and pitched the PC. As of today I'm shipping off the iBook to a new set of owners, and picking up a brand new 12" G4 w/ Superdrive I'll drop a line in the forum when I finish tearing it out of the box and boot it up.

[LfGrdMike]

The boxes are of great quality just like machines please dont tear it! hehe sorry I couldnt resist you can just ignore that comment...

[gumby5647]

Originally posted by BkueKanoodle:
Last month I sold my 1 gig tibook with the intention of buying a tablet pc. I did buy a tablet and though I thought it was very cool, it was missing something, a certain style, a little flair, a little .... Mac-ness. So I went out and bought an ibook thinking that would fix my apples jone's for a while. Wrong, soon I needed more, something faster, prettier, something MAC-er.

I'm telling you, its like a drug. Apple got their greedy little claws into me again, (i thought I kicked the habit for good back in 95) and I'm right back where I started 6 months ago. I bought an ibook in December,to "do some testing on" is what I told myself. Pretty soon my windows laptop was sitting lonely on the shelf. 2 months later i bought the tibook, and thats when I knew I was in trouble. I was falling asleep at night with my wife on one side and my ti on the other. I thought I could kick the habit, I thought I could control myself. I can quit anytime I want. really I can. See, I'll prove it, I sold my ti and went back to windows.my ibook sat on the shelf while I had my fling with the tablet. But like a cheap mistress,the tablet quickly wore on me. I found myself wishing for some work that I could only use a mac for. I tried to tell myself that I could just use the mac for a little bit, that one little use wouldn't ruin me. In case you haven't figured it out, within 24 hours of turning the ibook on, I was standing in a compusa in the middle of the night, (OK rushing in before closing) shaking the the sales rep and screaming "GIVE ME THE GOOD STUFF! I KNOW YOU HAVE GOT IT! DON"T BOGART THE APPLES MAN, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I NEED IT NOW!!!!!!!!!"

My name is Bkuekanoodle, and I'm a mac-aholic.

As sad/funny as this story is......nothing, NOTHING tops the murbot saga.....

[iWrite]

VERY FUNNY!

Wish I felt the same way.

Wish I could fly to Cupertino, rush into Jobs' office, grab him and shake him and yell, "What are you waiting for! 'Give me the good stuff!' Where's the new processor? Where's the G5 for a Powerbook! Quit stalling, buster!

[juanpacolopez]

Originally posted by iWrite:
VERY FUNNY!

Wish I felt the same way.

Wish I could fly to Cupertino, rush into Jobs' office, grab him and shake him and yell, "What are you waiting for! 'Give me the good stuff!' Where's the new processor? Where's the G5 for a Powerbook! Quit stalling, buster!

This is kind of off topic iWrite... but reading all your gripes about PB speed got me thinking...

What exactly do you do with your machine that makes you need/want faster than a 1Ghz G4 machine right now?

The reason I ask, is that I've been using my TiSD for a while now, and I have yet to truly max out it's capabilities. The only time I find myself even thinking about more power is when I fire up a game, and even then only certain games (Sim City 4 is a HOG... even UT2k3 runs faster... by about double once my city gets over 100k).

Using FCP, Soundtrack, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Acrobat, After Effects, iDVD, DVD Studio Pro etc... I can honestly say even running many things at once this thing RARELY even skips a beat. It's running at full responsiveness 99.99999% of the time (a heavy unrar or long FCP render or the like will slow things down a tad).

I'm sure if I were a true Pro (I do video work entirely as a hobby, though it'd be nice to make a career of it one day) and using shake/Logic/Cinema4D and the like I might need a Dual, or a G5, but I'm not, so I don't.

Just curious what people are using their machines for these days that they "need" all this extra horsepower? XP will almost always "feel" faster... the GUI is implemented in an entirely different way with completely different design goals. But when it comes to heavy lifting, my Ti keeps pace with almost every windows machine I've ever used (excepting the high end, 3.2Ghz P4's w/ HT etc.) A good bit of this is fixed, in Panther however, from what I understand.

[iWrite]

That's a really good point you've made -- one that I've made in the past.

It has to do with snappiness. Opening and closing apps.

Okay, here's a big one with me. When I connect my digital camera to my Powerbook and want to download pictures it seems like I have to wait too long for the camera or pictures to mount. It take a long time -- especially in iPhoto. In iPhoto the more pictures I have to "Import" the longer it takes the program to get ready to import them. I really hate waiting...and waiting...and waiting.

That's just one example.

However, it's not a huge difference, no. It's just the feel of the program(s) responding, although, Photoshop seems to work faster on the Vaio for some reason -- which I don't get.

Another thing I don't like is that when I start to burn to a DVD (or some other intensive task) those darned Boeing 747 engine fans in the Powerbook kick on and I have to listen to that ad nauseam.

I don't do anything with recording sound, but I've heard stories about how much people HATE that fan sound (or with the 17-inch Powerbook the noisy sound emanating from the keyboard) when they're trying to record sound. Apple really should have a mechanism by which you CAN turn off the fan(s).

So, it's just an overall feeling of use, of quick response, not waiting for the program to open while the color wheel spins circles in front of my eyes.

[juanpacolopez]

Originally posted by iWrite:
So, it's just an overall feeling of use, of quick response, not waiting for the program to open while the color wheel spins circles in front of my eyes.

How much RAM did your Ti have again?

The reason I ask...

I only get a beach ball when opening an app for ONE application... which is Acrobat 6. Everything else opens pretty quickly. Since I have 1Gb of RAM and never turn my machine off (only sleep), most apps I use frequently stay cached, and start up near instantly.

[BkueKanoodle]

Originally posted by LfGrdMike:
hehe Sorry its early in the morning I might of missed something. Did you sell your TI, iBook, and Tablet 's. NOTICE I HAVE AN "S" hehe

I sold the ti, was able to return the ibook for store credit (stilll within my 30 days at compusa0 and I've kept the tablet for meetings and Windows Network Administration task.

(The Ironic part is that I work as a consultant for a strictly Microsoft shop designing networks for clients. Our company also writes custom software for these same clients that only works on Windows. Hence, I have to keep one foot in the Windows world. )

[iWrite]

Juan:

Two of 'em, one at office one at home and both have 512mb ram and both run the same.