Took a forty-minute drive into Wenatchee this morning to retrieve my new PowerBook from Fed-Ex before having to head over Seattle-side. I had a half-hour to play before I left.
First impressions...
Unpacking an Apple product is an experience unto itself. Everything is so perfectly arranged to maximize the impact of your new PowerBook not as a piece of equipment, but a piece of your life. Just taking it out of the box makes you feel special (which, of course, you are... you're a Mac user now!).
The Aluminum PowerBook itself is quite nice, though I can honestly say that it's not as sweet to look at as my beautiful Titanium PowerBook that it's replacing. It's bigger. It's bulkier. It's less elegant. It lacks the classic stylings that makes the TiBook such a sexy piece of hardware. Even so, it's far, far, far better than anything to come out of Dell or any of the other Windows crap factories. I certainly won't be embarrassed to whip it out in public (if you know what I mean).
But outside of appearances... it's perfection. The denser pixel count of the screen gives me a larger desktop to work on. The screen is far, far bolder and brighter than my old PowerBook. The backlit keyboard is sweet (though my left-side Apple key is sticking for some reason). It is much quieter. It seems faster and more responsive (probably due to the 7200 rpm drive I upgraded to). The ATI Radeon 9700 graphics card allows all kinds of cool video effects. The nifty scrolling-trackpad is very handy.
So, while I am sad to say goodbye to my dying Titanium PowerBook, I think I will like working with my new Aluminum PowerBook just fine.
And now I am off to Redmond for some drunk and disorderly conduct.
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Darn you Americans and your silly spelling of “aluminium” 🙂 .
Hey… you won’t get any argument from me! If the sexy way that Elizabeth Hurley says “al-you-min-ee-um” is good enough for her, it is certainly good enough for me! Aluminium it is then.
LOL, excellent 🙂 . Just seems a bit weird how you guys get all of the other metals correct apart from this one…
Anyway, hope you enjoy playing with your new toy – I take it your iPod Nano works better with it now, with it being USB2 and all?
Woo hoo!!! He’s got his Mac!!!! Bring it to Chicago. I want to drool. I promise not to drool on it. Swear to God!
I’m glad you got it today!
I never realized the PowerBooks were so much bigger than the titanium. I never got a titamnium because I didn’t want the larger size. I don’t think they ever made a 12 inch at a time when I was shopping (if ever).
I forgot all about the packaging. At work I just did a whole thing on all the extras that Apple does and I forgot all about the wonderful packaging. (For those of you who have never bought an Apple product, this is not sarcasm, it really is a treat.)