What's the first thing to do w/ my new Powerbook?

The first thing that will amaze you is the box itself. As you open the box youwill a sudden rush of joy. You will feel as you're having having sex but infinite the times of that. Teh backlit keyeboard is the light of peace

you should fold btw

Take pictures! Lots of 'em! And post the bloody things! Quickly!!!!! Does it run cooler and quieter than the 1GHz TiBooks? Tell us everything!!

i don't know if i would compare opening up the box to sex, but thats just me

in regards to spending the money feeling? that doesn't away for me until i finally justify the purchase,

take it to a poorly lit coffee shop sometime in the middle of the week, and watch the room fill with envy, that should be enough to make you feel better about the money... LOL


have fun with your new toy

take it to a public wifi spot and make people drool over it

(bring a napkin)

i'm guessing this is your first PowerBook? just make sure that you read the manual properly and thoroughly. and then make sure you condition the battery properly. that's all i can think of right now.

FIRST MAC!!?

Woah, dude

You know what will make you feel great about spending all that money on the machine?

That after you finally get down and start doing some work, be it video or graphics, you sit pack after slaving away for 8 hours and realize "It didn't crash once, it didn't freeze, it didn't start making weird noises in the middle of a reutine colour change in photoshop" - Nothing, just the blissfull feeling of it all coming together smoothly

I got so spoiled after i switched to mac that i often forget to save my work untill the very end of the project, and i've never lost a file i working on, and i've been a switcher for 4 years. and not a single error message exept for the occassional "OUT OF MEMORY" Meh, photoshop, FPC, illustrator, browser, and MSN messanger running at the same time, it was bound to happen

Gratz and welcome to the good ones

Yeah charge your battery fully and run it until it fall asleep then charge it again. I think two or three times.

I'm abit jalous LOL. But soon i get my own one.
Welcome to the Mac community and never crashing OS. I switched nearly 5 years ago and my Macs never have probs like whole system crash (blue screen etc.). Whole system works like a tank *ggg* never stop running until it have no fuel. My brothers PC often restarts under XP or crashes. And i should mention ease of use .
Welcome to a much better and friendly world.

Download firebird....

Start folding

Originally posted by Schiffi
take it to a public wifi spot and make people drool over it

(bring a napkin)

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Thats the first thing I plan doing doing. Hitting up the library and sitting in the middle of a large room where tons of people bring their 10lb laptops. And just let them :droooooolll:

Maybe i need a napkin too LOL

While i dosn't get my new 15" PB yet i think i should get a napkin too if i see you with your really hot stuff in the libry LOL. Really jelous. Gratz for great buy.

well, the first think you should do is repackage your aluBook and send it over to me...

vSpacken

I had the same question as my PB has shipped today. I will do the battery thing and then enjoy the ride. Kinda like buying a new car, manual says to break in at 50mph or less for first 1000mi, but in reality most of us try it for a day or 2 then its redline city. I'm going from an imac 350 with no firewire to the PB macdaddy! Will try the ethernet network connection to transfer my mp3, jpg, etc. from old imac to new PB. BTW I've also got about 6gb worth of my mp3 collection to put into my new 20gb ipod.

Can you try some games on it?
Can you try the unreal tournament 2003 demo and see how many fps it gets?