Powerbook. So beautiful...it's invisible?

[bousozoku]

Dang, that would irritate me! Who puts their elbow on a laptop?! Good thing it didn't get any damage, isn't aluminum suppose to be really soft, at least compared to the old TiBooks?

I would imagine that he's the kind to put his shoes on the dashboard of a $60,000+ car without a thought or the antique table or...

Sad, isn't it? Wonder if he's on time for his pay.

 

[kilpajr]

benefits of the mac

everyone who sees my laptop notices it and i usually get lots of questions. or the occasional M$ dumb a$$ that says 'thats a dumb computer, mine is faster. . . what speed is yours? mines a 3.0GHZ' i hope your co-worker isnt a mac hater :-/

but i got the best compliment yesterday. i was over at my friend's house setting up his new dell laptop. i pulled out my 12" pb (rev A) so i could transfer some music onto his new laptop (er. . . music i made myself :-/ ). and then while marveling at the size (compared to his 15.4" wide screen 5inch thick bohemoth) he suddunly asked 'what speed is your processor' i replied '867 mhz' then he asked how much ram i said '256' then came the shocker (which i loved hearing) 'how does your computer that has half the ram and slower proccesor than my 2.8Ghz P4 run faster than my brand new computer?' i laughed and explained it was a mac. went into the details of the difference b/w a G4 and a P4 and got a wierd confused look from him. but i was still happy that he realized that my one year old G4 was faster than his brand new P4 !

I had a similar experience. I received my PB a few classes into the semester. In one class I have, one of my friends who has a 2 year old 15" PB noticed that our professor kept looking at his computer. After class, the professor started asking questions about it. My friend answered his questions and then mentioned that I had a brand new PB. The professor then asked if he could see it and I said, "sure" and showed it to him. He was very impressed and said it was "beautiful". I doubt many PC guys have received this kind of compliment.

This is the best part. When I decided to get a mac, my parents asked if I would be able to do everything I needed to with it. I told them yes, hesitantly, this being my first mac and all. In the class I talked about, we are designing an e-commerce web site. Almost everyone has to use the cramped lab using Red Hat. That is, except the three of us that have macs . Also, I have another class where we are programming in VHDL. We have to use a program on the sun computers to do this. However, do I have to spend hours in the lab getting things to work? No. I use X11 forwarding and ssh into the sun computers so I can work from off campus (this is surprisingly simple even though I am new to the mac).

It is wonderful to be able to have this kind of experience on a computer. Anyone who doesn't appreciate the mac just hasn't had the kind of experiences we have. Just show them the benefits and see what kind of response they have then. Sorry for the long post.

 

[Dandaman]

I usually ask why. Then they say something like "it doesn't run (insert some doom rip-off) game" or "you can't even upgrade the RAM" or "I used one once in 7th grade". Things like that. Sometimes they don't know why. Those are fun.

Haha, I love the 7th grade one. I get that all the time. I guess it's kind of like saying, "I'm not gonna buy a brand new [insert car name] because I test drove it 12 years ago and didn't like it."

daniel

 

[kilpajr]

Haha, I love the 7th grade one. I get that all the time. I guess it's kind of like saying, "I'm not gonna buy a brand new [insert car name] because I test drove it 12 years ago and didn't like it."

daniel

I had an "I hate macs" attitude from 12th grade until a couple years ago. I was in chemistry and we had these old mac laptops for doing labs. I was bored and started playing a game on one while our teacher was talking. The game started making a really loud noise and I couldn't make it quit. I quickly pressed the power button to make it cut off. The computer cut off but the sound didn't! I was panicking by this time and pulled the power cord. The sound didn't stop! What was there left to do but pull the battery? I did this and when my teacher came over to me, she told me I had screwed up the computer and they would now have to get it repaired. This had to be the stupid computers fault . I'm glad apple has improved their computers or I guess I would still hate macs.

 

[Seanb23]

I used to like getting the oldschool 17" pbook out on flights...though the battery life is only about 2.25-2.5 hours on "Highest Performance" with a lot of useage and that humongous, beautiful, power-suckin screen...for the very looks of envy that the corporate PC-using 'droids would give me ! Then some overzealous (and probably malicious) retard in Airport Security managed to put a little dent in the side of the thing when it was out of the bag and I was picking through my shoes and belt and stuff elsewhere, thus making it impossible to trade up (plus $$$, of course) for one with a more robust processor/bus when (or if) they ever come out. Didn't notice it for a day or so, so legal action is out of the question. Hell, in another thread on this someone recommended pounding out that little dent with a rubber hammer, and I probably will, but this much is certain : that powerbook is NEVER out of it's Marware case nowadays without my direct and hyper-vigilant supervision !!! Even my room-mate chides me for scowling at her like an overprotective parent when I let her use it...

 

[varmit]

excellent analogy! i've often been plagued with this question at school and don't know how to answer it other than "it's a different architecture"... i too have seen the megahertz myth video, but i'm curious: did they "lengthen" the pipeline for the G5 to make the numbers seem faster??

reality

The pipeline in the G5 is longer than the G4. Thus why it could step up its Hz speed to the 2.5Ghz. I think physics draw into this somewhere, where a longer pipeline can give you faster speeds. Thats why its so hard to get the G4 to go faster without burning up, and this is why the Pentium PCs could get higher Ghz speeds then the Macs.

You can put more instructions over a longer pipeline, making the instructions easier at each stage of the pipeline, making each stage quicker, making the processor go faster, thus longer pipeline can go faster, aka more Ghz. I don't know, I just drew that up in my head right now so its probably not right.

 

[NusuniAdmin]

I woulda punched the dude for vandelising my laptop!

 

[Quobobo]

Okay, I can't believe someone hasn't said this yet, but who cares. He put his elbow on your computer, which is made of Aluminum. It can handle it. Besides, if you're not paying attention (which I imagine he wasn't), a closed Powerbook just looks like a metal box. If anyone did the same to my 'Book, I wouldn't overreact to the point where I need to post online about it.

He's jealous. Nothing to it. He's not stupid. If he 'sucedes' (spell?) in denting your pb, he'll just say it was an accident and laugh about it. Or if you tell him to stop, he'll try to spread a rumor that your too sensative about your laptop and so on.

I hate people who do stuff like that.

If you're both posting here about it, and getting that worked up about it, you are too sensitive about your laptop. The original poster even mentioned that it blends into surroundings.

 

[Mord]

my ibook is the bigest investment i have ever made in my entire life (i'm 16) as is the purchaceing of powerbooks for some people for somthing so very very cool it is easy to get over protective of it.

 

[wide]

i use my dell 600m as a placemat sometimes. i rest my elbows on it too, but then i can't use the keyboard, so i only use it as an elbow rest when i'm reading stuff, not typing.

 

[iSuck]

At school
we have 12" G4 ibooks. We can only use Office and Internet explorer. I hate the IT guys...so you know what I do with the school ones....
When im usin them in the library for research, i use it to write on, example, i lean on it when im drawin on paper, i use it as a foot rest and I make expose go nuts!

The IT Guys love it...LOL!

They can't tell me off....they arn't authorised.

 

[Manzana]

Quit bugging troll.

At school
we have 12" G4 ibooks. We can only use Office and Internet explorer. I hate the IT guys...so you know what I do with the school ones....
When im usin them in the library for research, i use it to write on, example, i lean on it when im drawin on paper, i use it as a foot rest and I make expose go nuts!

The IT Guys love it...LOL!

They can't tell me off....they arn't authorised.

 

[aswitcher]

I use a crumpler school book hymn to protect my PB but for elbow incidents it would be nice to find something on the market like the school hymn but with alumnium strengthening but not a full blown brief case...

 

[Coolvirus007]

Aluminum is great stuff. However, it does have an arch-enemy.

Check out this article. There's also a link on the same page to a Quicktime video of the aluminum "rusting".

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/h20/article/0,12543,693558,00.html

I never knew this:
“Anodized” aluminum has been treated with acid and electricity to force it to grow an extra-thick layer of rust, because the more you have on the surface, the stronger and more scratch-resistant it is.

Thanks for the article

 

[toughboy]

I love getting positive comments of my pb...everyone comments on the looks but what about the power and whats inside... o well...
Some times i get "A mac.... i hate macs...... and then i just leave it cause there no point in arguing with a dumb person.....

I worked at a tech fair this month, and believe me, half of those "dumbs" get convinced when you show the "dock" of the panther and the other half needs to see "expose" to get to buy a mac

 

[Mord]

I worked at a tech fair this month, and believe me, half of those "dumbs" get convinced when you show the "dock" of the panther and the other half needs to see "expose" to get to buy a mac

it's true people have bought macs just when they looked at my ibook while i was working, i use exposé allot so i look very flashy while working.

 

[iSuck]

lOL

Mac can make the easiest things look cool