A powerbook regrets thread.

[Dalriada]

My only regret... to relive that magic moment when you receive/cut the seal on Apple's blackbox and meet your new PB for the first time.... Meantime busy enjoying a rock solid machine without any hics at all (I'm still amazed at how much hipe is flying around on Rev D problems, maybe I've just been lucky) Anycase I'm so glad I went for the 15", it's the perfect compromise (desktop or sofa or garden proof) in my humble opinion.

- Dal

 

[psycho bob]

Perhaps this is taken as read and I'm pointing out the obvious but I haven't read it anywhere except on apple's site. As well as featuring an optical out built into the headphone jack there is also a matching optical built into the audio input socket. This makes for a very neat and practical setup.
I sold my Rev A 17in last week and am now debating which machine to buy to replace it either a 17in or a top 15in minus the Superdrive. The cost saving is around £200 but it is more the size issue as I'm a photographer and travel around a lot. I never found the 17 to be overly large but simple things become inpractical compared to smaller machines like finding somewhere to put it down in a busy room. It has to be said though once you've used the 17 it is hard to go to a smaller machine and this has nothing to do with showing it off, they are just so great to work and edit with.
My head says get the 15 while my heart is telling me to get another 17. I'm going to wait until the beginning of April in the hope apple releases Tiger, if they don't I'll buy then anyway.

 

[raptorhigh]

My only regret was waiting this long to throw my TiBook on ebay and upgrade to a new one.

 

[shortyjj]

I was sort of apprehensive about going from the 14" ibook to the 12" PB (in terms of screen size,) but it's never been an issue, and now even my gfriend's 12" ibook seems clunky in comparison.

 

[Azurael]

My only regret is that my nearly-two-year-old old rev.A 12" died a few days ago

It was a great machine (in fact probably the best computer I've had to date), and now the only mac I have is a beheaded 15" TiBook 550 (hinges went yonks ago and I never bothered fixing it) sharing a KVM with my desktop PCs... Sadly, I can't afford to replace it either. I'd save to buy a 1.4GHz Mac Mini to replace the TiBook-desktop, but I don't see the point buying anything without a Core Video compatible graphics chip... The only portables I have now are x86 machines

The saddest thing of all is how much Macs hold their retail value. If I sold all the PC kit I have (top of the line P4s, Athlon64s, Geforce 6800Ultra, etc) I probably wouldn't have enough money to buy an old MDD G4, and replacement logic boards for rev.A 12-inchers are like gold-dust on eBay.

 

[maxvamp]

Am I hearing correctly.........

Everyone here that has owned a 17" has not regreted the decision?

Max.

 

[Chrispy]

My only regret is that I had so many problems with the 15 inchers I had... I love my 12" and it is a great machine but I sure do miss the size and beauty of the 15". I can only imagine the beauty of the 17". If you don't need extreme portability then I say go for it

 

[Mechcozmo]

I was curious too, because I always found PB keyboards to be conspicuously undersized and cramped in feel. Do PB owners feel that way too, or do you get used to it?

I love my keyboard. 12" Rev. C PowerBook.

YS, I can never figure out how to get rid of my old desktop PCs either. Somehow doing the old "university dumpster driveby" doesn't seem socially responsible . . .

Turn them into fileservers. Make one an FTP server, another a webserver, etc. Use a couple of them, strip them down, and make a Beowulf cluster. Take the parts from 3 and make 1 ultra-computer. (PIII, 4 HDDs, etc.)

That's what I would do.