May 16, 2006

• The perfect thing to take to your new local McStarbuck's.
• Macs are better. Microsoft sucks. That is all. (yay for flamewars!)
• Ah, a new iThread! Beautiful, and yet so very unaffordable. I personally prefer the elegance and intuitiveness of Wind-*snkkff*!! Heheh . . ahhh I knew I couldn't do that with a straight face.
• It's surprisingly affordable here in Canadaland... a similarly decked out Toshiba actually costs about the same if not a little more.
• I hope there' some built-in shutter or cover for the tiny camera. Having a lens all the time in front of me makes me nervous... 'Good morning, Dave'.
• Perhaps monkeyhumper should change his name to machumper.
• Macs are for pantywaist, turtleneck wearing, momma's boys. Microsoft sucks. Linux p0wnz you!
• The black one costs more than the white one.
• My God, it's beautiful. And affordable. Somebody pinch me.
• It'll do. Have one sent to me post-haste. *clap clap*
• The black one has a 20GB bigger HD, but an extra $200 is whacked. That being said, remember that this is the cheapest laptop you can buy that gives you the option to boot into OS X or Windows XP. I don't care how you configure a Windows laptop, they can't do that.
• This is the first release of a new Apple product and that is the time to not buy. Bad MBs on G3(800) iBooks, speckles on AluBook displays, noisy fans on iMacs and hot, hot Macbook Pros were the faults in recent first revisions of new Apple products. Apple design >> Apple design verification testing.
• jet_silver while we're at it, let's also "cat affordable >> Apple design verification testing". I want a Mac soooo bad, but they're just too pricey. I'm typing this from a PC I bought second hand for $68, plus a few $54 RAM sticks, running Ubuntu Linux. I don't expect a Mac to match that price, but... couldn't they, like, have a coupon? 50% off if you bring in an OEM Windows CD to put on the pyre? (I'm sure I could scrape one up from somewhere...)
• Yeah, jet_silver's right. Give it at least six months, let Apple deny there's a problem for a while and then wait for the public announcement that they've acknowledged the fault and are replacing the part for free. Then you know they've fixed it in the next release. I love Apple products, but we have a G3 iBook.
• Looks great, but wait a month or two, as jet_silver and tracicle have said. I bought a G4 iBook the week they came out when my old Lombard's hard drive died. My new machine needed both the screen and the trackpad replaced (and I got the old Lombard running with a spare HD from the junk box in the meantime). The repairs were done by my local apple guy and the machines run without a hitch since, but it took a long time to get the parts. It truly sucks to be without your new computer for a couple of weeks.
• I am currently using a G3 Powerbook in my office. My Acer is out for warranty service (power button is misbehaving). As a long-time Windows user, I have to say that running OSX for a while has convinced me of one very important thing: I want my goddamn Acer back pronto. The Mac is OK, it does things, I can use it, but man. I am not going to switch. (If Apple drops those damn insidous commercials, maybe I'd be less annoyed. But that smarmy, scruffy "Ooh I am Mac, look at me be cool" guy pisses me off. I keep waiting for the PC guy to be playing some game, and then the Mac guy will ask "Hey, can I play?" and the PC guy will be all like "Maybe in 6 months or so, if they port it, or maybe never? Go fiddle with your iPod, you're distracting me.") (yes, yes, I know that many games are immediately released for both platforms. But still - that's not what the Mac is for, is it? We all know it.)
• I love how the PC guy has a fairly strong resemblance to Bill Gates. In any case, I make no claims about game-playing on a Mac. I'd rather go buy a Wii. Every time I buy a PC game I have to go buy a new video card anyway, it seems.
• Games? I was under the impression PCs were serious, business-like machines, and Macs were the toys... *flicks tongue, run*
• My problem with the macbook is the weight, it is only .4 pounds (200 grams) less than a macbook pro. I would like a smaller book, but I wanted it in the sub-five pound range under 4.5 would have sold me. Another issue is that the video is pretty weak (64MB from internal ram, compared to a 256 MB ATI X1600 - even if the ATI is underclocked). I would have lived with it the weak video if Apple had made it lighter. On the plus side, battery life is claimed to be 6 hours+ with wireless off (which is probably closer to 5 in anything but a computer manufacturer testing lab), better for plane trips and there would be less threat of screen damage if the person ahead of you reclines the seat because of the smaller screen. I think it will suit many people well, and who knows, maybe I'll buy one for home use, but I just ordered my new MB Pro for work. And, I was able to sell maxing out the hard drive and RAM by saying I will not need a mac and a windows machine because it is two machines in one.
• What amazes _me_ is that there's been a new product announced by Apple, and there is NO MEFI THREAD about it. For that is surely where this thread belongs. WTF metafilter?
• I'd think it would be fair to say it was noticed.
• Okay, I know this gets said every time, and I know everyone is sick of it, but please, _please_ can you stick another mouse button on it? Make it like that annoying mighty mouse thing where it's one button and you click on each side, I don't care, just please with the two mouse buttons.
• But can I fit a 17" screen down my trousers? Of course I can; I have other 17" objects down there, after all.
• Einstein used a Mac; that's good enough for me.
• With you on that one, markr. Especially if they're marketing these to people who will be dual-booting: Not having the second mouse button really really cripples you in Windows. Hell, Linux expects three buttons... when will Apple admit that the one-button thing is over? They did it for the mouse, how about the touchpad? Where's the love for the dual-booters, Steve?
• People use the touchpad? hugs her mini-wacom tablet
• Skrik: Half a yardstick and a bread box?
• Control + click = right click. Exactly how hard is that?
• > Control + click = right click. Exactly how hard is that? working purely with the touchpad, it's twice as hard. it's also not good if you then have to select an item at the bottom of the contextual menu. for heavy formatting of text or document reorganization, i always plug a mouse into a mac.
• Macworld review
• Well, if any wealthy monkey wants to buy Chymie, who is poor & sick, one of these items, I'll write me' book on it & dedicate it to ya, how's that? :D :D :D :D
• Most of my apps need two buttons and a scrollwheel at the absolute minimum. Sometimes usefulness and functionality are more important than aesthetics.
• I know - pr0n has gotten so complicated these days ain't it. what? It has!
• I'm in love, and I hate using macs (it's the suer interface - I love the hardware). (GUI is too bouncy, but you can deal without the right click by going with a tap on the touch pad for the left click and the click on the button for right click. I never use my left button these days.)
• Oh - Macs are cheap, as far as laptops go. I just went around pricing 12"-14" laptops this past month, and iBooks were cheaper than anyone but Dell, and even then I had to settle for a 6lb, 14" dell (when I wanted 4lb, 12"). Macs are the only people who sell smaller for cheaper (reaching for the student market? Would be a good plan). And it's Dell - good service, if you can bully them into providing it, but you'll need it because the construction is bad. But if money were no object (because I would have to purchase Windows Xp as well, to run the software I need), I would totally lay down for an MacBook. And they have microphone jacks now too! Good Apple.
• See, the Mac has this clever thing on the side, I don't even know if other manufacturers have heard of it yet. It's called a USB port, and you can plug in a regular mouse! Those Apple guys, what will they think of next? *hugs iBook tightly, plays some StarCraft*