the m-m-macbooks are here!
I'm typing this on a new, superfast, blogging, blah blah blah macbook.
We got 20 of them for the lucky teachers in the district who are in this year's upgrade cycle. I, of course, had to test one of them out.
The keys remind me of scrabble tiles. I like the new keyboard, a lot. Perhaps even more than the keyboard on my powerbook.
The screen is wide, and glossy. Not sure if I like that. It is, however, bright enough to use tolerably in direct sunlight; something I cannot say about my powerbook's matte screen. Did I mention that I'm outside "testing it out"? Because, of course, I needed to see if it worked outside.
The screen has almost the same resolution as my powerbook (but slightly less than the newer, higher-density powerbook and macbook screens), so my concern about screen real estate is nullified. The graphics adapter is onboard and sucks ram from main memory ("vampire video"), so it's fortunate that we specced these to have a gigabyte of ram, as opposed to the 512mb standard.
The magnetic latch is much better designed and more resillient than the ibook's old physical latch.
They are made by ASUS, out of china! At first I thought these were 20 PCS, from the ASUS label in chinese on the outside of the boxes.
Lastly, this is what you'll look like when using it outside:
We got 20 of them for the lucky teachers in the district who are in this year's upgrade cycle. I, of course, had to test one of them out.
The keys remind me of scrabble tiles. I like the new keyboard, a lot. Perhaps even more than the keyboard on my powerbook.
The screen is wide, and glossy. Not sure if I like that. It is, however, bright enough to use tolerably in direct sunlight; something I cannot say about my powerbook's matte screen. Did I mention that I'm outside "testing it out"? Because, of course, I needed to see if it worked outside.
The screen has almost the same resolution as my powerbook (but slightly less than the newer, higher-density powerbook and macbook screens), so my concern about screen real estate is nullified. The graphics adapter is onboard and sucks ram from main memory ("vampire video"), so it's fortunate that we specced these to have a gigabyte of ram, as opposed to the 512mb standard.
The magnetic latch is much better designed and more resillient than the ibook's old physical latch.
They are made by ASUS, out of china! At first I thought these were 20 PCS, from the ASUS label in chinese on the outside of the boxes.
Lastly, this is what you'll look like when using it outside: