I've got 17" Powerbook and it's my workhorse. I don't find the size very much of a problem. I'd love a MacBook but am holding until they put out a 17" model. The extra screen real estate is so totally worth it to me when I'm doing any kind of editing or remotely controlling multiple machines.

shrift, fill out this survey:

1. How big a laptop do you want?
2. What will you use it for? (mention any specific software you will use regularly - photoshop? DVD Studio?)
3. When do you want it? That is - now, or can you wait a few months?
4. Anything else you think might help

okey. advice on making my iMac work better, please? Since I see the mac folks are out in full force. hee.

I have an iMac G3 and I'm running 10.1.2. I know I need to update the OS, but to what? Tiger says I need a DVD drive?!?! to update.

The retail Tiger package ships on a DVD but you can have Apple trade it out for CD's after you've purchased it. I'm not sure how happy Tiger would be running on a G3 though. How much memory do you have? Tiger really likes no less than 512MB and I recommend having at least 1GB.

Hmm. I'm not sure, Allyson - the iMac G3 is before my Mac time. I think Panther still worked on them for sure, and you might be able to get Tiger on CD if you glare hard enough at Apple through the phone.

Somebody is going to answer that question better than I did. Maybe before me.

(Note: prolonged exposure to computer labs leads to my inability to type well in QWERTY or dvorak. My poor confused fingers!)

I'm not sure how happy Tiger would be running on a G3 though.

Not happy at all. I just got rid of my graphite iMac G3 (which did have a CD/DVD drive). With the RAM maxed out, it didn't like 10.3 a whole lot but it really didn't like Tiger.

I'm not an expert - but I had a lot of Mac geek friends look at it and we could really never make it work well once I upgraded (for example all browsers I used quit on me all.the.time, Word didn't work so well, I got a ton of sudden freezes when doing just about nothing and no CD burner would work with either Toast or iTunes once I upgraded no matter what I did).

I wish I had something better to tell you...

ETA: I ended up putting 10.3 back on it and giving it to a computer-less friend who just wanted something he could load his iPod with.

Allyson, a refurb Mac Mini might be a better option for you.

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The retail Tiger package ships on a DVD but you can have Apple trade it out for CD's after you've purchased it.

Why why WHY do they do it this way? I can understand the default format being DVD, because most Macs (newer ones, anyway) have Combo or Super drives, but wouldn't it make a lot less work for everyone involved to just make "give me CDs" an option at checkout???

(Not a real question, btw, just a rant.)

Latest Space Elevator tests looking good.

Oooh. Want.

Hmmm...when I offered to give Allyson my extra Panther disc, I didn't even check to see if it was CD or DVD.

If it's DVD, can you copy it to an external hard drive and run it off that?