Kinda lame that now the default size is less.
I haven't been tracking all that carefully, but my impression is that Apple's been doing this across the board in order to very slightly lower prices.
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
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Jessica - Apr 26, 2005 10:11:59 am PDT #2625 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jon B. - Apr 26, 2005 10:22:20 am PDT #2626 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
30 gig vs. 40 gig? What does that save them? $10?
NoiseDesign - Apr 26, 2005 10:22:53 am PDT #2627 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
If they have the money the Powerbooks are quite a bit nicer. Backlit keyboards on the 15 and 17 model, faster ethernet connection, FW800 on them as well. They can also do monitor spanning if you hook up an external display as opposed to just monitor mirroring.
The 15 and 17 have a standard DVI connector for external monitors as opposed to a special VGA connector where you need a dongle. The PB's also have better video cards, so if it's going to be a sole machine you'll get better graphics performance out of them.
Whatever you get bump the memory to a minimum of 1 GB of RAM.
Rob - Apr 26, 2005 11:36:13 am PDT #2628 of 10003
Whatever you get bump the memory to a minimum of 1 GB of RAM.
768 MB is fine if going to 1GB is prohibitively expensive. That's what I have in my 15" Powerbook and I use it to edit video and do software development.
NoiseDesign - Apr 26, 2005 11:46:41 am PDT #2629 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I've had issues with less than 1 GB on Panther, mainly when running multiple apps. I start to see the color wheel with far too much regularity. If history holds true, this will only be worse in Tiger.
An average session for me has the following open:
Safari, Firefox, iChat, iTunes, Preview, Word, Excel, Mail, iCal, MSN Messenger, YahooIM, ICQ.
Often also open will be iPhoto, XJournal, and Filemaker.
There's a noticeable difference between 768 MB and 1 GB on my Dual 1 GHz G4, and on my 1.33 GHz PB.
§ ita § - Apr 26, 2005 11:47:40 am PDT #2630 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So where does one go to get the RAM once one has one's powerbook?
eta: Also, is there a Mac equivalent of Trillian?
NoiseDesign - Apr 26, 2005 11:48:22 am PDT #2631 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
In the past I've gone to Crucial.com or to OWComputing.com for my memory.
eta:
Also, is there a Mac equivalent of Trillian?
Yes, it's called Fire, but I didn't like the interface last time I tried it.
Steph L. - Apr 26, 2005 11:52:14 am PDT #2632 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
ita, have you tried Adium?
§ ita § - Apr 26, 2005 11:52:44 am PDT #2633 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not yet! I have so much to learn.
Thanks, ND.
Steph L. - Apr 26, 2005 11:56:15 am PDT #2634 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Not yet! I have so much to learn.
Everything I know, I learned from MacWorld magazine (and its Web site), and the macosx and macintosh LJ communities. There's also a powerbooks LJ community, but I haven't ventured in there, so I don't know how good it is.