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Hello everyone :yinyang:
I am going to start at university in a few months and I need a laptop. I am leaning heavily towards the 12" powerbook. I just wanted to ask you guys here if anyone else who has a powerbook uses it at school for taking notes and stuff and what they think of it, especially if you have a 12". At home I will be connecting it to a bigger monitor for use, and I am mainly looking for extreme portability.
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Qs:
How do you find the small screen?
How does the battery life hold up for taking it to school, do you bring a second battery?
Weight wise, is it pretty comfortable to put in your backpack and carry around all day with books and other stuff?
How good is the wireless reception? The school I will be attending has wifi in some areas.
How do you feel carrying around a $2000 computer in your bag? :biohazard
Has anyone run Unreal Tournament (the first one, GOTY, not the new ones) on their 12"? How does it fare?
How much RAM does yours have, and how well does it run with it? I am thinking of just getting the stock 512mb and then later upgrading it myself with aftermarket RAM to the maximum 1.25GB.
How warm does it actually get while using it? Please only answer this if your 12" powerbook is a newer model as I know this was more of an issue with older ones.
Are you generally pleased with your 12" powerbook?
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I am not going to buy a powerbook just yet, it won't be for atleast 2 or 3 months. I am going to wait and see what comes out in January at the macworld expo. I have heard that it could possibly be a new iBook. Though it is unlikely that Apple would put out an iBook that overpowered the current powerbooks, so it might even be a new powerbook line. Others speculate that it might even be some variety of budget laptop or just a new MacMini.
A little about myself: I am no stranger to macs, having grown up using old skool 68k macs and the very early powermacs. :yinyang: This summer I bought a Mac Mini (1.42ghz with superdrive) and so I am not a stranger to OS X either.
I am going to start at university in a few months and I need a laptop. I am leaning heavily towards the 12" powerbook. I just wanted to ask you guys here if anyone else who has a powerbook uses it at school for taking notes and stuff and what they think of it, especially if you have a 12". At home I will be connecting it to a bigger monitor for use, and I am mainly looking for extreme portability.
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Qs:
How do you find the small screen?
How does the battery life hold up for taking it to school, do you bring a second battery?
Weight wise, is it pretty comfortable to put in your backpack and carry around all day with books and other stuff?
How good is the wireless reception? The school I will be attending has wifi in some areas.
How do you feel carrying around a $2000 computer in your bag? :biohazard
Has anyone run Unreal Tournament (the first one, GOTY, not the new ones) on their 12"? How does it fare?
How much RAM does yours have, and how well does it run with it? I am thinking of just getting the stock 512mb and then later upgrading it myself with aftermarket RAM to the maximum 1.25GB.
How warm does it actually get while using it? Please only answer this if your 12" powerbook is a newer model as I know this was more of an issue with older ones.
Are you generally pleased with your 12" powerbook?
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I am not going to buy a powerbook just yet, it won't be for atleast 2 or 3 months. I am going to wait and see what comes out in January at the macworld expo. I have heard that it could possibly be a new iBook. Though it is unlikely that Apple would put out an iBook that overpowered the current powerbooks, so it might even be a new powerbook line. Others speculate that it might even be some variety of budget laptop or just a new MacMini.
A little about myself: I am no stranger to macs, having grown up using old skool 68k macs and the very early powermacs. :yinyang: This summer I bought a Mac Mini (1.42ghz with superdrive) and so I am not a stranger to OS X either.