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kat_xo · Jan 24, 2004, 01:34 AM

any suggestions on how to pass the time until my iBook arrives?

I'm just so darn excited, I can't wait until it gets here.

mdc · Jan 24, 2004, 02:46 AM

torture yourself by reading each and every review, visiting apple's ibook page, refreshing the fedex tracking page all day long.

i have no idea why i did that to myself.

kat_xo · Jan 24, 2004, 02:58 AM

Originally posted by mdc:
torture yourself by reading each and every review, visiting apple's ibook page, refreshing the fedex tracking page all day long.

i have no idea why i did that to myself.

Heheh, I've been doing all of that, except the fedex bit.

I wasn't given a tracking number since I'm picking it up from the store.

darcybaston · Jan 24, 2004, 08:01 AM

Visualize creative opportunity. Sit back, close your eyes and imagine the white beauty before you. Imagine you can hold it and tumble it in your hands. Imagine its cool flawlessly smooth surface sliding beneath your touch and wonder at the feeling of potential this gives. Visualize the wonderful things you will create, the colors, the sounds, the senses alit.

Oh wait, that's what I did for years before I got to get one.

I've had mine for a few months and it has been all those things. I have created TONS and am never short on new ideas for what else I can accomplish with it. Helps when you've got years of ideas queued.

amazing · Jan 24, 2004, 10:16 AM

Well, since you won't see Nature for quite some time once you're absorbed in the new laptop, how about a walk? Also, since you'll be neglecting your friends, some socializing is in order. Once you're sequestered with the laptop, you'll hardly be paying attention to externals...

Have fun, with or without the iBook!

darcybaston · Jan 24, 2004, 10:21 AM

Unless he packs it up and takes it with him for a nature walk.

pat++ · Jan 24, 2004, 12:47 PM

Just look at these pictures.

tmjf_sifu · Jan 24, 2004, 02:06 PM

Originally posted by kat_xo:
any suggestions on how to pass the time until my iBook arrives?

I'm just so darn excited, I can't wait until it gets here.

i bought a couple boxes of posicle sticks at the local crafts store and made a popsicle stick 14" iBook exactly to scale. i used blank sheets of printer paper to draw pictures with crayons and markers and placed in the space for the monitor display. i used white chiclets for the keys. i was getting pretty good at making the "beep" "boop" "bong" noises until the tragedy. i went to the local compusa and bought a power converter. plugged it in and "bamf", instant cinders. i must confess, though, i think i like my ibook in "soot black" over the ice white. unfortunately, the chiclet keyboard melted.

by that time, ihad received my 14" and was ecstatic. i am sooooo glad i purchased the 14" over the 12", hugely better.

holden mcgroin

AleroLeanne · Jan 24, 2004, 03:42 PM

Now you guys are making me jealous. I just started saving for an iBook. I remember how excited I was waiting for my pro keyboard to arrive (doing the FedEx tracking page 'refresh' thing)...I can't imagine waiting for a whole computer!!!

darcybaston · Jan 24, 2004, 05:41 PM

Oh you're in the right place. Waiting for a pro keyboard can be excruciating! Been there. Heck, waiting for OS X 10.1 was the most painful since I knew the changes in my computer's speed would be night and day.

I read, looked at photos, kept magazine reviews and all that stuff on iBooks for 2 years. I share your squirming and you're right, it is much more challenging to wait for the whole computer. But y'know what? If I would have received and iBook when I first wanted it, it would have been a much less useful tool compared to the G4 one I got two months ago because it wouldn't have been able to run GarageBand which I use for hours, daily today.

Waiting is a gift so that the moment can be even more perfect. Trust the process, yours will come at a time more advantageous than now. You may suddenly find yourself with the means for a powerbook.

kat_xo · Jan 25, 2004, 02:23 AM

Originally posted by darcybaston:
You may suddenly find yourself with the means for a powerbook.

Chance would be a fine thing!

andreas_g4 · Jan 25, 2004, 05:52 AM

Sex.

darcybaston · Jan 25, 2004, 07:59 AM

Andreas has a good point. I'm hitting my head wondering why I didn't think of that.

nredman · Jan 25, 2004, 10:47 AM

Originally posted by andreas_g4:
Sex.

i'll second that.

kat_xo · Jan 29, 2004, 08:23 PM

what's the average wait time on a built to order machine? 2 weeks? 4 weeks?

just curious as to how long it took for others to get their BTO iBooks.

dampeoples · Jan 29, 2004, 08:59 PM

AOL IM chat rooms

ValVashon · Jan 29, 2004, 09:29 PM

Stroke, man, stroke. (Same if you're a girl).

typoon · Jan 30, 2004, 03:54 PM

I know the waiting feeling. I got a nice gift this xmas and had the money to get the powerbook so I sprung for one of those. i couldn't wait. If I did I probably could have gotten the 15 but I'm happy with my 12". Much more than I thought I would be.