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I admit it. I'm a MacAddict.
Bought my new PowerBook yesterday with Tiger and decided to go pick it up during lunch. I then proceed to spend much of the rest of the day thinking about my new Powerbook, playing with my new Powerbook or thinking about playing with my new Powerbook. Sigh.
Not overwhelmingly impressed with Tiger yet, but I can see how it could be useful down the road. Haven't really had chance to use Spotlight, Dashboard or the new iChat AV yet, so don't now how good those features are yet.
But I am impressed with how the new Powerbooks look and feel. Wow. The 15-inch Aluminum is heavier than my old 15-inch Titanium, but the speakers inside it are so much better, and it's a lot faster and not as flimsy-feeling as the older one. But I'm keeping the older one so I can use it as storage and maybe a server somewhere down the road, since it runs both OS 9 and OS 10. The new ones can't run OS 9, and I really don't want to give up my old software, just in case.
Haven't had chance yet to play with the SuperDrive or burn any DVDs, but I'm really looking forward to it.
One small gripe, though. They tell you you can quickly transfer all of your files from one computer to the other with the Firewire cable. I couldn't, and Apple couldn't tell me over the phone in a two-hour conversation how to make it work. Luckily for me, I have a 20 G Firewire hard drive that I could use to transfer all of my music from one computer to the other. Took a while to figure out why it wasn't working, though. It was that retractable Firewire cable that we were trying to use with it. I changed the firewire cable to a non-retractable one, and poof. all of the music transfered with no problem.
Tonight I'll add all of my programs back to it and we're off and running. No excuse not to finish writing my stuff now...
Bought my new PowerBook yesterday with Tiger and decided to go pick it up during lunch. I then proceed to spend much of the rest of the day thinking about my new Powerbook, playing with my new Powerbook or thinking about playing with my new Powerbook. Sigh.
Not overwhelmingly impressed with Tiger yet, but I can see how it could be useful down the road. Haven't really had chance to use Spotlight, Dashboard or the new iChat AV yet, so don't now how good those features are yet.
But I am impressed with how the new Powerbooks look and feel. Wow. The 15-inch Aluminum is heavier than my old 15-inch Titanium, but the speakers inside it are so much better, and it's a lot faster and not as flimsy-feeling as the older one. But I'm keeping the older one so I can use it as storage and maybe a server somewhere down the road, since it runs both OS 9 and OS 10. The new ones can't run OS 9, and I really don't want to give up my old software, just in case.
Haven't had chance yet to play with the SuperDrive or burn any DVDs, but I'm really looking forward to it.
One small gripe, though. They tell you you can quickly transfer all of your files from one computer to the other with the Firewire cable. I couldn't, and Apple couldn't tell me over the phone in a two-hour conversation how to make it work. Luckily for me, I have a 20 G Firewire hard drive that I could use to transfer all of my music from one computer to the other. Took a while to figure out why it wasn't working, though. It was that retractable Firewire cable that we were trying to use with it. I changed the firewire cable to a non-retractable one, and poof. all of the music transfered with no problem.
Tonight I'll add all of my programs back to it and we're off and running. No excuse not to finish writing my stuff now...