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I keep all my addressbook/calendar/to-do list/notes-to-self stuff on my old Clié, and don't much use any of it on either my desktop PC or my laptop, so that use of the sync function isn't important to me. It might be more important to you.
Keeping a current backup copy of everything on my Clié IS important to me, and sync does that, but I also keep a copy on a flash memory card, and when I've let the battery in my Clié run too low (I've done it only twice in four years, but when it happens -- aaargh!) I've restored from the flash card as my first choice.
The biggest advantage I can think of to having something that syncs your PDA and your iMac is transferring files -- applications, data, pictures, music. It can almost always be done by transferring first to a flash card, and then to the PDA, but that extra step would become a PiTA if you had to do it a lot.
There seems to be another option...there are places that sell older models, which use software that works with OS 9.1. I've ordered an upgrade disk for 9.1, and will probably order a slightly older Palm.
So I got a new MacBook. The 2.0 Ghz white one.
Bah. The screen is the wrong shape. (Kidding - but it's wider than my 12" iBook.)
You know, a new computer doesn't really feel like mine until I customize everything and install my favorite apps....
Also, the keys feel weird. But I suppose I'll get used to them.
Yeah, I'm kinda bitter that when I get a new computer (sigh, hav eto get a new computer) it's going to be bigger than my cutiepie 12".
I almost got a 15" MacBook Pro. It's greater size and weight was one of the cons. But the coolest thing about the MacBook Pro? Backlit keys.
Also, computers drive me nuts if I don't have the mouse speed set exactly how I want it.
If Daniel isn't interested,
Daniel is interested, but not enough to overcome his toomanycomputersitis. For now I shall suffer with the G4 400 I was given by my nephew a few weeks ago. Hee.
But the coolest thing about the MacBook Pro? Backlit keys.
This is a really fantastic feature. I coveted the last one I saw. Post in dim light! Accurately!
The keys do feel funny to type though! I'm so used to having my laptop keys squished together on both my Dell and my Powerbook laptops that when I went to the Apple store to try out a MacBook I couldn't type at all. It was very strange.
The IBM Thinkpad I use through work has a teeny LED right above the screen that sheds a very gentle light on the keyboard. It's called a ThinkLight!
The IBM Thinkpad I use through work has a teeny LED right above the screen that sheds a very gentle light on the keyboard. It's called a ThinkLight!
Doesn't that rule? I love the ThinkLight.
