[iCol]

Just wondering what occupations you iBook users hold, see if there are any 'bookers who are not Apple's intended student audience!

Myself, I am a gap year student, so I guess I fall in the market placement catagory pretty well....

What about the rest of you?!

Col

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[edddeduck]

Ironically I am a student as well BUT I bought my Dual 450 with 17" for university. In the now (Part-Time) and summer (full time) I am working for a games company and I bought my iBook for this as I will be travelling a lot.

So yes and no.



Cheers Edd

[Justin W. Williams]

I am a student, but I do everything known to man on this thing: Video, Graphics, Programming, etc.

Kinda wish I woulda gotten a Powerbook for the extra horsepower, but the iBook design is so much nicer.

[willed]

I too am a student - that's 100% of us so far. I'm doing my A-Levels this summer, then going to work in a Camp America place, and hopefully going to Oxford if I get the grades!

[jimsmac]

Financial Controller. (There goes your 100% record!)

It just does everything I need a computer to do and I can take it everywhere with me as well.

[Red Wolf]

I'm a sale associate at an autherized Apple dealer. I was a student about 9 months ago and I bought my iBook because I needed an upgrade from the Performa 575 that got me through college and the iBook offered the best value for someone on an entry level salary.

[typoon]

I do tech support for an Internet Service Provider. (No NOT AOHELL) I also do some web Design on it as well. I got the iBook on a good deal and also gave me the best bang for my buck.

[El Diablo]

I'm in advertising. I write commercials & ads on my iBook. I've been using powerbooks for years, (5300, 1400, 2400) and this by far is the best. I use it to present mpegs or TV commercials and mp3s or music sample to clients. It's such a handy size/weight for travelling too.

[Justin W. Williams]

Originally posted by El Diablo:
<STRONG>I'm in advertising. I write commercials & ads on my iBook. I've been using powerbooks for years, (5300, 1400, 2400) and this by far is the best. I use it to present mpegs or TV commercials and mp3s or music sample to clients. It's such a handy size/weight for travelling too.</STRONG>

Yeah. I used to do all that with my iBook and G4 Powermac at my old Administration job at an Advertising firm. They had me do all the fancy technical stuff.



Unfortunately, they didnt let me design the web page

[Lateralus]

I am a High School student, 11th Grade.

I used to work for MegaMacs.com, in their retail store, however, I decided to quit when I earned enough for my iBook, and enough money to buy Dorritos for a few months for my 12 hour long Star Trek marathons. I'll probably start looking for another job soon though.

[SeSawaya]

Musican and percussion instructor

Just finished my bands CD. Did a lot of post production on this thing. mastering and such. My layout guy did all of the real art work layout on his G4. But I love my ibook.
check it out here.....
http://www.hillbillywinos.com


oh yah I like playing Spiderman on it!

[silverlode]

Also a musician. Just got the iBook this week since my Quicksilver had to go full time duty in the recording studio (Pro Tools setup). The iBook is going to be my fulltime personal computer, so I imagine I'll do the normal stuff on it. MS Office, Photoshop and Illustrator, web design, etc. Oh, and one of the best pieces of software I've ever seen, Reason (www.propellerheads.se). I sold some recording gear I wasn't using anymore and basically got a refurbed iBook 600/dvd for the same price. I just didn't have the money for a Powerbook of any kind. And besides, I really do think the iBook is a better made/designed computer.

[ringo]

I am not a student.

Mostly just web w/o wires, listening to music, importing/organizing my digital photos, photoshopping, dreamweaver, playing CIV III, and a little light c programming in UNIX.

[Sander]

I am studying for my LSAT right now... What a pain!

Cheers.

[-Q-]

I'm a marketing manager for a software developer.

I typically create marketing campaigns, some light design work , a lot of writing and some spreadsheet analysis. It works great for all of it. And with DAVE, I plug in seamlessly to my company's NT network....

[darksnoopy]

i work 8-5 at a doctors office as a receptionist, also i am the mac tech here. the ibook is used to make appts for patients and waste time on the internet. i used to do a lot of graphic design work...

darksnoopy

[stew]

Studying CS.
I use the iBook for work (programming Poser), email, and maybe soon also for some music (as soon as I get my keyboard here and maybe spend some cash on the Roland SH32).
I do have a x86 box next to me, but I use that almost only for work any more. After getting used to the comfort of 802.11 and a small silent computer, it isn't very appealing any more.

[mbperk]

Financial Manager. As jimsmac noted it just does everything I need it to, and then some. Although it does lack in necessary financial software area. This is one thing I sure will improve.
I wish I would have had this iBook in college.

[m_sessar]

I am a professore at the CIA. (not the Intel) the culinary one.
I run one of the restaurants and love to show off my iBook to those narrow-minded windowees... I can show them and my students things they can't even fathom.
I wish the institute would return to Apple.


A presto Msessar

[AmyLR]

I'm a network support manager at a state agency plus a part-time instructor for 2 universities. I do the instructing cos I like the interaction with students, it lets me buy hardware & software at academic discount prices, and the deal I have with my husband is that I get to use the $$ I get from teaching to buy my toys, like my new 14" iBook ...and hopefully a G5 with a large LCD monitor next year!

TTFN,
Amy

[Hobbes]

I own a web development company that specializes in designing for automobile dealerships around the country. We do other things to, but that's our niche. So needless to say, my iBook is a real workhorse.

iBook 600
14.1" Screen
20G HD
640MB RAM

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[JeffZPgh]

I work as a software engineer right now...bought the iBook to replace my iMac, which I bought in March 2001 specifically because of OS X (this replaced an old PC running mainly Slackware Linux). It's been my only home computer since I bought it and it only runs OS X (plus a slew of open-source software including X Windows). It's my solace at the end of long work days spent chained to Windows NT/2000 machines - I mainly write fiction, not code, at home.

It's going with me to Prague, where I'm moving in July to teach English.

Jeff
iBook 500/256MB
30GB IBM Travelstar drive upgrade

[philzilla]

i travelled around the world last year, so i got mine for that.

you can't beat editing digital video, in business class, while drinking vintage champagne, en route to singapore, from delhi, ahh...

as i'm a web designer, it's also handy for whipping out in meetings with clients. you can also play tony hawk's, if those meeting get boring.

[jesperas]

Book production for a science, technology, and medical publisher. Bought an iBook with my fiance so that we could have a second computer in the household, and so that I could "reclaim" my Powermac. Thing is, I'm kind of jealous seeing her surfing the web on the couch or on our porch (airport), and I'm thinking about selling the Powermac and getting my own iBook...

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[msc1974]

I'm a Senior Creative Mac Artist in one of the worlds top DM agencies. I got the 14.1" iBook for email at home and for my digital camera. I do all my high res Photoshop creation at work on my G4 800.

[sniffer]

Hi! I am at the moment in millitary, the sivil part. So in other words, you might call me a pacifist. I bought mine for future studies, but right now I use it mostly as a hobby thing. But I have used it some here at my working place, connecting to the smb network, using Office X, and so on. Later on I might see if there is a possibility to get a airport card (for free trough the millitary) and connect to the local wireless network here.
Right now I have a project ,of my own, learning me some basic programming.
Other than that, I have it to serve the geek part of me, that loves to explore different systems, expand its knowledge, play mp3s, and so on.. The iBook portable design is great, and I have it with me in my back pack several times a week, allmost everyday. It's my fulltime computer, except when using PeeCees at work.

[nest18]

I'm a Financial Controller for a documentary/drama production company. It does everything I want + more.

I also use it for recording and editing music with my band. I love this machine and planned buying a airport station.

Os X is really getting macs alive again.

[dcmacdaddy]

Day Job: Multimedia Specialist at the Smithsonian (hardware support, not content development) plus some PC and Mac desktop support (Win98/2K and OS9.x).
Night Job: Graduate english student with all the usual programs (IE, Office, Acrobat). Trying to find time to teach myself some some web development involving PHP and MySQL (Saving money to buy Freeway and JANEBuider).

Running OS X exclusively since 10.1 on my iBook 500 CD-RW.

[Scooterboy]

I sweep and mop floors at night and use my iBook 600 combo to burn music cds to listen to while I work. I also teach water skiing, and I want to start making documentaries, using iMovie and later, Final Cut Pro. I'm planning on buying the new Digidesign Mbox with ProTools, so I can record music, then export sessions to my friend's recording studio. Currently learning Dreamweaver (1st try at web page design) and WebDesign. I use OmniWeb, Fire, Mail, Office X, iMusic, iPhoto, Sherlock2 and Watson most every day. I watch a fair number of DVDs on my iBook, usually hooked up to the TV. I'm almost exclusively OS X (10.1.3), except when I run an older foreign language learning software, which I run in Classic. Come to think about it, I haven't booted into OS 9 in a long while.

[johann]

i'm a IT dood that does music as well.. iBook is for surfing webs and taking around to clients for trouble shooting networks.. Other desktop computers/servers are for.. servers and DAW (not protools)...

[Tristrami]

I'm a publicist (PR guy) who works for state government. Along with my Canon BLJ-85 I use it as a mobile workstation and even squeeze in some light video editing as I traverse the state.

[ccsccs7]

I've had a Performa 6116CD for a while which I upgraded in preperation for the Graphic and Web Design cources I'm taking. I decided I needed something "already fast and powerful with lots of memory (RAM & HD)" rather than trying to work with the Performa. At first I was looking at the G4s, but their prices were high especially with the cost of monitor. When the 600MHz iBooks came out with the 100MHz bus, I knew that now was the time to go portable.

(Oh my goodness! I have...a...PORTABLE! I have an iBook! WOW!!)

Right now, I use it for email, internet, hobby "work" and of course my school stuff. It will be enough to hold me until I get a new desktop (I miss the desktop, even using the old Performa), and the iBook will continue to be nice to use when I go on trips, to watch DVD movies, doing stuff while I recline, or when I go outside (I gotta try that).

[funkboy]

Originally posted by ccsccs7:
<STRONG>or when I go outside (I gotta try that).</STRONG>

I was hoping to do this a lot, but I was unfortunately disappointed. The LCD screen really just dies in direct sunlight (the sunlight overpowers the backlighting and makes the screen just dark) , and it's hard to find good enough shade for it. I hope on the next iBook Apple can make some sort of switch that changed the LCD from backlit to reflective for outdoors use. Maybe even a solar panel battery charger

(oh, and I'm a student and web designer, go me)

[whodisbe]

I do tech support, and train employees about networking, how to set them up, how to troubleshoot... everything from dial up -&gt; DSL

and eventually I'll get back to school... once I have tuition saved up :-/

[agentz]

I do tech support for my local education department. Two iBooks in use at the moment - my own original Blueberry 300MHz which I use at home mostly for surfing/email/organising photos. The other is a new 600MHz/12.1"/256Mb/Combo kindly supplied by my employer more or less for me to prat around with, get to know X inside out, that sort of thing.

The iceBook has all the usual X gubbins, Office v.X, Appleworks, some other educational stuff that will likely be in use in our schools when we finally roll out X to them.

[g. olson]

I am the CEO of a non-profit corporation. My iBook is my personal fun machine. I have Airport installed and set up a little software network in my home with my G4 Quicksilver. I love to sit in my recliner, listen to tunes, surf the web etc. Also, since I am 53 y/o with hearing loss as the result of listening to loud music I sometimes have trouble hearing the dialogue in movies. I find that if I put a DVD in my iBook and slap on a pair of headphones, I can enjoy the movie and hear everything I normally miss! I have never had so much fun with a computer as I do with my little iBook. By the way, I use OSX exclusively now.

[x user]

I'm a 16 year old College student

[Arkham_c]

I'm a UNIX programmer. I've been a Mac person for years, but I haven't figured out a way to do it for living yet. These days I am doing java/J2EE/WebLogic/Struts with some Perl and a lot of project management. Historically I have done Zope, python, REALBasic, C, shell, assembly, and a few others. I've been a Mac user since 1988 and a UNIX user/programmer since 1992.

[FXWizard]

By day, I run the PC Compatibility Lab for a large game developer.

Outside the office, I do freelance special effects (physical effects and pyro, not CG).

I use my iBook for lots of things, including creating video demos of my FX projects and other subjects like repairing electric fencing gear...

[brtb517]

STRIP CLUB DJ

I am the DJ at a full nude bar in SoCal. I actually use my iBook and a wonderful program called MegaSeg to completely automate and simplify my existence as a DJ. No more hauling around case upon case of CD's for work. Thanks to Napster, Limewire, MegaSeg, and Wozniak.

Peace,
brtb517

[pilauh]

I develop training programs for the Customer support center of a french ISP.

I use my icebook for surfing the web, mail, dvd on the train, and a lot of photoshop... yeah, the small 12" screen can be used to do photoshop...

Oh, and I download a lot of anime too...



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[bleee]

I'm a part time student computer science and a part time web developer.I use Adobe GOLive to do the page layouts and code in PHP. All of my code runs on FreeBSD but written on my iBook with BBEDIT, it does everything. I only use my PC for games now.

[OJ]

I'm a student taking a leave of absence from classes. Right now I'm an independent contractor doing mainly web development with PHP/MySQL.

[alpha rays max]

I'm a third-year university student (21 years old). I also do part-time web design work for a state agency.

The decision to buy the iBook was at first mostly a matter of price. I simply did not (and still don't) have the money to shell out for a decent TiBook or a G4 tower. That said, sometimes I wish my iBook had a little more speed in OS X (I have the original 500/66 CD-ROM model, from last May). It's certainly adequate for most of my hobby tasks though: using IE/Mozilla, Mail.app, light Photoshop work, iMovie, iTunes, etc.

It works wonderfully with my iPod and is certainly usable doing some light digital video work with my Canon GL1.

Although the speed of the PB's are attractive, I genuinely prefer the smaller size of the 12.1" iBooks. Oh, and Airport rocks. I use it at home and with the wireless network on my university's campus. It comes in VERY handy.