Sold my PowerBook 12" :-(

[Collin973]

While all of your are reminising about your 12" PB, my first mac (a 12" powerbook 1ghz 768 mb 40gb) is sitting in a UPS shipment center some where. I'm excited to get it and start playing with it. I plan on keeping this until the new MacBook pros come out (with merom). I love how good the 12" PB looks (i've spent long hours search google images:: 12" powerbook 1ghz)

I just can't wait!!

 

[dcv]

While all of your are reminising about your 12" PB, my first mac (a 12" powerbook 1ghz 768 mb 40gb) is sitting in a UPS shipment center some where. I'm excited to get it and start playing with it.

Congrats! You'll love it

I briefly toyed with the idea of replacing mine with the MacBook... the speed boost is all very well and good but the plastic casing and weird looking keyboard just doesn't appeal... and the 15" MacBook Pro just seems ridiculously big.

My BabyBook™ is one year old today! I've taken a gamble and not bought the additional AppleCare.


*wraps BabyBook™ in protective blanket*

 

[ricgnzlzcr]

I have a 1.33 Ghz 12 inch Powerbook with 768 ram and a superdrive. I've had it for a year now since I bought it just a year ago for 1200 with a warranty. It's been the best computer I've ever had and it's shown no signs of weakness as it runs with a 250 gig external harddrive and a 21 inch Gateway widescreen when it's on my desk in my apartment at school. Now that I'm at home and my 21 inch is packed away, I really am desiring a 15 inch powerbook. I don't know why, it's just this lust. I wanted a macbook a couple months ago, but after my girlfriend got one I just don't feel like I need it. I just want the bigger screen even though the 12 inch screen is perfect for me. I guess I just want something new to play with. But with a warranty on this powerbook and the way it's still performing I want to keep it as long as possible. Though I may open it to trades + me putting in cash soon online if I can get a good offer for a 15 inch powerbook. We'll see. Maybe when my warranty expires and this powerbook dies I may buy a new one. My friend is still using his 600 mhz G3 ibook with 348 megs of ram and going strong. I hope to do the same!

 

[Collin973]

Congrats! You'll love it

I briefly toyed with the idea of replacing mine with the MacBook... the speed boost is all very well and good but the plastic casing and weird looking keyboard just doesn't appeal... and the 15" MacBook Pro just seems ridiculously big.

My BabyBook™ is one year old today! I've taken a gamble and not bought the additional AppleCare.


*wraps BabyBook™ in protective blanket*

UPS says it'll be here tuesday. I'm hoping tomorrow! Its in almost perfect shape (the top casing has some minor scraps on it) but everything else is suppose to be perfect. I'll be installing a fresh version of OS X Tiger on it...now if only i could get some iLife discs for super cheap...*begins dreaming*...

...if i begin loving this machine, or merom isn't introduced in the new MBPs, my pb and i will be together for a while, but i've been holding out for the new mbp's since the first ones were introduced..

 

[YS2003]

If you have relatively late model PPC PB or iBook models, you would be able to run most of the current available applications efficiently. As my sig shows, I have 4 PPC Macs and I have not yet had a courage to jump into the Intel Mac as there are some serious bugs for those rev. A products. I like my PPC Mac's track record of reliability (PPC Macs are fully matured products before they were discontinued this year) as none of my PPC Macs ever exhibited those problems MacBook Pro and Macbook are suffering from(according to quite a few users).

Every new product launch brings hype and sometimes clouds your judgement and critical evaluations. I am not to rain on the Intel Mac's parade; but, there seems to have way too many bugs for the rev A MBP/MB. My own target for the transition to MBP/MB or Mac Pro would be around the 1st or 2nd quarter of 2007 (1 year of production experience for Apple's contract manufactures in China should help those technical and engineering issues to be sorted out).

The 12" PB is a good machine and is very portable. Because mine has a 1.5 Ghz PPC chip, CS2 and MS Office 2004 runs much faster than on MBP and MB (based on my testing at the Apple stores).