[MindFad]

I'm so excited, I can't stand it! I got myself an iBook 12" with 80GB HD. This will actually be the first Mac that I've bought all by myself. It's a good feeling. It will also be my first laptop, which I'm really psyched about. I know I said I would wait until the Intel Macs, but I just couldn't wait anymore. Wireless, 512 standard? Sold! (And I'm also leaving Apple, at least temporarily, and I had to take advantage of the employee discount before I left!) I think it will be a sweet little setup for what I will use it for.

It just went into manufacturing, according to my order status. Woo! This is basically a useless thread, sorry. I'm looking forward to that New Mac Smell™ when you crack the box open. I was excited and figured I would share. Everyone does on here when they get a new Mac, and I know you all know the feeling of tracking the FedEx number religiously all day, checking the status, all to when the guy whips it out and brings it to the door—or, more likely, when you frantically run out to meet him after listening for trucks coming down the street.

[/end blog]

Question: does closing an iBook's lid actually put it to sleep, or is there some setting? If you were mirroring the video, could you close the lid and just have the mirrored monitor running, like the PowrBook?

[d4nth3m4n]

you have to use the spanning hack to get it to clamshell.

now about that time machine...

[driven]

Congratulations! Welcome to the iBook owners group. :-)

[OogaBooga]

Yes, closing the lid puts it to sleep. No, you can't run the iBook with a closed lid, unless you install the spanning hack which will enable clamshell mode. And even then, the hack may not work on the new iBooks. And even further then, the iBook wasn't designed to be used in clamshell mode, so heat problems might arise from doing so.

Congratulations.

[MindFad]

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n

you have to use the spanning hack to get it to clamshell.

now about that time machine...

Dang. Ah well. I can live without clamshell mode. Oh, time machine. Now I get it.

Originally Posted by driven

Congratulations! Welcome to the iBook owners group. :-)

Thanks. Dang, I can't wait for it to arrive. I already got a sweet case and everything.

[d4nth3m4n]

for the time machine, check the date on the blog entry in the chicken thread.

oh hell, i'm alone on this one.

[ManOfSteal]

Congrats 'Fad...very cool!

[MindFad]

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n

for the time machine, check the date on the blog entry in the chicken thread.

oh hell, i'm alone on this one.

I finally figured it out. I noticed it, but didn't bother changing it after I edited it to get the right grey. And now, of course, I am two minutes cooler than everyone else on the Internet.

[Salty]

Now if this thread goes anything like mine when I got my iBook you'll be told to
A) shut up
B) get a blog
C) shut up
D) stop being a Christian

But congrats on your iBook.

[ASIMO]

E) Come out of the closet

[Salty]

Originally Posted by ASIMO

E) Come out of the closet

Right, forgot that one

Anyway, enjoy your iBook man, they're good Macs. what kinds do you already have?

[analogika]

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n

for the time machine, check the date on the blog entry in the chicken thread.

oh hell, i'm alone on this one.

No, I laughed at it, and thought it would be poignant to reply with a date stamp from the 14th or 15th, but unfortunately, the thread had already taken off.

[Spidey79]

F.) Salty, you might want to consider a a sex change

[Salty]

Originally Posted by Spidey79

F.) Get a sex change

Yah this is where you've now taken it from funny and building on an inside joke to... well it's just crap. Thanks, I hope you die.

[Sigh... before anyone gets mad at me I don't ACTUALLY hope he dies... I just said that... it's like where you end off a comment where you break down a person's lame attempt at humour that really sucked, and just show how absolutely awful it was with a dry devaluement of their life. I don't actually mean it... though i do hope he gets hit by a car.]

[Link]

Congrats man! I kinda wish I had a little more time to enjoy my PowerBook, because I was like 4 days from the last day of class, it arrived while I was taking a shower (and about an hour before I had to leave), and came the morning after it was shipped, hehe.

That didn't make it any less awesome though I got to take my new toy with me, and pulling that thing out in class was ... totally unreal. Here I was with a laptop I had been dreaming to have for a couple years and well.. I was pulling it out.. woohoo Somehow, the machine lasted well over 2 hours with a like.. 30 minute charge at best


Hope you really enjoy your ibook Here's to portability!

[Salty]

I never get tired of the feeling you get when you pull out a PowerBook in front of a bunch of gawkers

"The apple lit up!"

"What's that thing made of"

"That's way hotter than my girl friend"

[Il Duce]

Grats MindFad!

My original white ibook 500 is slowly going the way of the dinosaur. That's why I'm picking up a new 12 inch ibook tomorrow. I'll slap an additional gig of ram in there, and maybe upgrade the hard drive. Should be a sweet little machine (seeing as my 500mhz g3 with 384 ram, 66mhz bus and 10gig hd is still quite useable).

Enjoy your new lappy. Now to see if the monitor spanning hack still works...

[chris v]

Rockin. My daughter has a surprise showing up on UPS sometime today or tomorrow. Since she's from a dysfunctional family of godless dee-vorcees, I figured we'd replace the now aging Cube that got her through school last year with an iBook (refurb. 1.2 combo/Airport) that she could tote back and forth. None of that "My homework was on the computer at my dad's" excuse any more. She doesn't know yet-- new computers make teenagers all giggly and stuff. This is gonna be fun.

[scaught]

Originally Posted by Salty

Now if this thread goes anything like mine when I got my iBook you'll be told to
A) shut up
B) get a blog
C) shut up
D) stop being a Christian

But congrats on your iBook.

see. everyone generally likes mindfad because he's not a whiny bitch. take notes.

[dcmacdaddy]

Originally Posted by chris v

Rockin. My daughter has a surprise showing up on UPS sometime today or tomorrow. Since she's from a dysfunctional family of godless dee-vorcees, I figured we'd replace the now aging Cube that got her through school last year with an iBook (refurb. 1.2 combo/Airport) that she could tote back and forth. None of that "My homework was on the computer at my dad's" excuse any more. She doesn't know yet-- new computers make teenagers all giggly and stuff. This is gonna be fun.

for being a good, albeit dysnfunctional, Dad.

for busting out your daughter's excuse for not getting her homework done.

[DarwinX]

The Fad has joined the laptop fad. Congrats!

[chris v]

Originally Posted by scaught

see. everyone generally likes mindfad because he's not a whiny bitch. take notes.

I love scaught 'cause he's such an industrious lad. how do you manage to tromp all over the nothwest and still post insightful, witty, concise comments like that?

Respect!


Oh, and I'll miss you fückers. (umlauts rule)

[chris v]

Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy

for busting out your daughter's excuse for not getting her homework done.

Kids these days. Sheeeesh.

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally Posted by chris v

I love scaught 'cause he's such an industrious lad. how do you manage to tromp all over the nothwest and still post insightful, witty, concise comments like that?

Respect!


Oh, and I'll miss you fückers. (umlauts rule)

i know scaught has a tendency to mix up his east and west and all, but i'm pretty sure he's in the northeast.

oh, and don't forget to link to your daughters myspace when it's up and running.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Salty

I never get tired of the feeling you get when you pull out a PowerBook in front of a bunch of gawkers

It always goes like this for me:

"Hey, that's a Pentium 4, right?"

"No, it's a Mac, so it uses a PowerPC G4."

"Uh...that's a Pentium 4, right?"

[MindFad]

Originally Posted by scaught

see. everyone generally likes mindfad because he's not a whiny bitch. take notes.

And I'm Floridian, of course. o wai

Can I get a comparably generally liked Internet person for reference?

Originally Posted by Salty

Now if this thread goes anything like mine when I got my iBook you'll be told to
A) shut up
B) get a blog
C) shut up
D) stop being a Christian

But congrats on your iBook.

Whoa, whoa! Keep that **** in here. But thanks.

Originally Posted by chris v

Rockin. My daughter has a surprise showing up on UPS sometime today or tomorrow. Since she's from a dysfunctional family of godless dee-vorcees, I figured we'd replace the now aging Cube that got her through school last year with an iBook (refurb. 1.2 combo/Airport) that she could tote back and forth. None of that "My homework was on the computer at my dad's" excuse any more. She doesn't know yet-- new computers make teenagers all giggly and stuff. This is gonna be fun.

Sweet. Hell, I'm giggly right now. You wouldn't like me when I'm not giggly. I'm broke—but giggly, goddamn it. It's oh, so good to be computerly trendy.

I was thinking about one of those stand thingies for the 'Book, but I can't figure out why the hell a piece of plastic is $40. Screw that.

[chris v]

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n

i know scaught has a tendency to mix up his east and west and all, but i'm pretty sure he's in the northeast.

oh, and don't forget to link to your daughters myspace when it's up and running.

1. I stand corrected.

2. I keep a baseball bat handy for the likes of you, young man. Now run along before somebody happens to slip and hit their head on it.

[d4nth3m4n]

good plan c_v.

[MindFad]

I CAN DO MYSPACE ON MY MAC BOOK?

[wdlove]

Congratulations ion your new 12" iBook MindFad. I'm sure that it will provide hours of enjoyment.

[chris v]

Originally Posted by MindFad

I CAN DO MYSPACE ON MY MAC BOOK?

Yes, they come with all the internets on them, now.

[andreas_g4]

I have the feeling that new iBooks do smell especially intense.


And I get the idea why Mac users sometimes are called freaks...

[historylme]

First Congratulations.

Second: 80gigs might translate to 74.5 capacity. I got mine two days ago, with the 80gig built in. I checked the syst info and it had the 74.5 with a 60 available. I understand hard drives need to format and all, but 20gigs! from what they market!

I called apple and got a $50 dollar discount because of it. If this happens to you, if you keep it, for for $60.

I hope you get the best machine.

as for mine, my firewire is not working on mine! [whimpers] AHHHH[/whimpers]

[analogika]

Originally Posted by chris v

Yes, they come with all the internets on them, now.

I heard Apple was aware of the problem and considering shipping them with internet sometime around 3rd quarter 2006?

[rjenkinson]

Originally Posted by MindFad

Question: does closing an iBook's lid actually put it to sleep, or is there some setting? If you were mirroring the video, could you close the lid and just have the mirrored monitor running, like the PowrBook?

if you really want to force the ibook to use clamshell mode, open the case and remove the magnet on the right side (just in front of the arrow keys) that triggers the reed switch just below the microphone.

-r.

[Link]

Originally Posted by MindFad

I was thinking about one of those stand thingies for the 'Book, but I can't figure out why the hell a piece of plastic is $40. Screw that.

Finally someone who agrees

[chris v]

Originally Posted by MindFad

I was thinking about one of those stand thingies for the 'Book, but I can't figure out why the hell a piece of plastic is $40. Screw that.

Yeah, you can make your own out of scouring pads, cinderblocks, sandpaper and double-sided duct tape for a fraction of the cost. Feh.

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally Posted by history1me

First Congratulations.

Second: 80gigs might translate to 74.5 capacity. I got mine two days ago, with the 80gig built in. I checked the syst info and it had the 74.5 with a 60 available. I understand hard drives need to format and all, but 20gigs! from what they market!

[Spidey79]

Nani? Congrats on the ibook... I keep a baseball in hady so that I can pitch to the fathers who aer wileding a bat at my head because I met their daughters on myspace...

[GranolaBoy]

Congrats to Mindfad for his new baby...girl? What's her name?

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by chris v

Yes, they come with all the internets on them, now.

BUT WILL IT LET ME SHOW MY BOOBS. THEY SAY WINDOS IS EVIL AN THATS WHY IT LETS YOU SHOW BOOBS.

__________________
♥❤ASHLEE❤♥
"I WANT IT THAT WAY"

[historylme]

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n

Maybe I was not clear (work doesn't let me spend much time here). They actually expect me to do work.

I order the same Ibook that mindfad is writing about. I got it two days ago. I wanted to give him a heads up, to make sure that his hard drive was what he originally ordered and that if it wasn't, he could get a refund on it, saving a bit more $$.

As for mine, the firewire port is not working and I will be force to send it back, spending even more time without a computer (since my last one was stolen).

[Salty]

Now the important question... what are you going to name it?

[bradoesch]

Originally Posted by history1me

First Congratulations.

Second: 80gigs might translate to 74.5 capacity. I got mine two days ago, with the 80gig built in. I checked the syst info and it had the 74.5 with a 60 available. I understand hard drives need to format and all, but 20gigs! from what they market!

I called apple and got a $50 dollar discount because of it. If this happens to you, if you keep it, for for $60.

I hope you get the best machine.

as for mine, my firewire is not working on mine! [whimpers] AHHHH[/whimpers]

Hard drive manufacturers list capacity in decimal. 1 MB to them is 1 million bytes.

Computers see everything in binary. 1 MB to them is 1048576 bytes.

So,

80 GB in decimal is 80,000,000,000 bytes.

80 GB in binary is 85,899,345,920 bytes.

That's a difference of 5,899,345,920 bytes. That's 5.49 GB.

I just can't see how Apple would give you $50. This is not something unique to Apple.

[historylme]

You just made my day!

[MindFad]

We have entered phase "Preparing Shipment." Ooooh, so exciting.

Oh, and another question: I imagine you do need to charge it when you get it, but how long does it usually take to charge the battery? Also, having it plugged in and charged is fine, right? Does it just stop itself from using the battery when it's plugged in, or does it charge fully and then stop using battery power? What exactly is the process?

Oh, and it comes with iLife '05, which is sweet, but can I use it on my QuickSilver, or do they "tie" it to the iBook?

As for names, I dunno. "mindfad2"? "iFad"? "MindBook"? Possibly just "iBook" for networking purposes. But she'll always be "sexy white bitch" to me.

[nredman]

congrats on the ibook fad - i have enjoyed my 12" for about a year now...will never go back to a desktop (gotta love being able to use your ibook anywhere in the apartment)

[MindFad]

Thanks, dude.

Status: Shipped!12121!11

[chris v]

Originally Posted by MindFad

We have entered phase "Preparing Shipment." Ooooh, so exciting.

Oh, and another question: I imagine you do need to charge it when you get it, but how long does it usually take to charge the battery? Also, having it plugged in and charged is fine, right? Does it just stop itself from using the battery when it's plugged in, or does it charge fully and then stop using battery power? What exactly is the process?

Oh, and it comes with iLife '05, which is sweet, but can I use it on my QuickSilver, or do they "tie" it to the iBook?

1. It'll run of the power adaptor whilest charging the battery. You can see this by changing your battery/power adaptor settings in the prefs (I have my monitor dim when on bat. power) and itt'l swich as soon as you plug it in. Should take an hour or two to fully charge once you get it. You'll want to "calibrate" the battery by charging it fully once, then right after that, let it drain down to zero.

2. Install away. No copy protection, although it might only come on the Software Restore disk-- not sure if they'll ship you a seperate iLive disk or not. (Pro tip: /Library/GarageBand)

[MindFad]

That's what I was thinking, that it might come on the restore discs, but that's fine. Sweet. Thank you for teh Texan Tips™.

Status: now leaving Shanghai, China.