Jack Michaelson — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:22:14 +0000

YIEHAA!!!

I just bought this one:

17-inch widescreen LCD
1GHz PowerPC G4
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX
64MB DDR video memory
512MB DDR266 SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA hard drive

Getting it monday! Can't wait!

Mark Hensler — Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:14:48 +0000

1 - don't know

2 - it's brand new, what would you do to yourself if it was lost/stolen?

3 - doubt it

4 - I'll hold it for you while you're away.

nike_guy_man — Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:47:14 +0000

It came!
What a birthday present for me
I am thorougly entertained with this
Unlike my 7lb compaq, this thing is light! 4.9 lbs... nice
I gotta buy some blank DVDs and try out my Superdrive
One question: How do I stop it from sleeping when I close the lid?

Well, 2 questions: Do I risk taking this with me to the Bahamas?

Make it 3 questions: Will I look like a terrorist with it in the airport since the terror alert is being raised?

In the process of installing Virtual PC, Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX and Photoshop 6

Very cool computer

Busy — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:03:54 +0000

nike_guy_man, maybe buy a lotto ticket, your luck has to change some time

Mark Hensler — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:47:17 +0000

Hey, at least it's in the country now. I wonder if they'll truck it the rest of the way or fly it closer to MD. If they truck it, you may wait another week or more.

I just had a 10/100 NIC shipped from NY to CA via UPS ground. Ordered it the 4th, shipped the 6th, and arrived the 13th.

nike_guy_man — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 02:44:14 +0000

I ordered it a week ago, shipped Wednesday
Fedex Tracking:
From TAOYUAN CITY TW on Wednesday
Delayed for 3 hours at C.K.S. INTL AIRPORT TW on Thursday
"Delayed beyond our control" at ANCHORAGE AK
Sigh... 3000+ miles and 2 1/2 days before I head to the Bahamas
I'll take bets to see if it's coming on time... 3:1 odds say NO

Suzanne — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:04:08 +0000

I have never used Photoshop. However, I have Illustrator and the Corel Suite for OSX.

I have played with gimp, but not recently.

Mark Hensler — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:24:27 +0000

Hey Suzanne.. do you still use Photoshop? And if so, what OS did you buy for? Have you played with gimp?

Suzanne — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:24:55 +0000

Mark, that's OS9... OSX is a totally different beast.

Nike Guy? I just moved from PC to Mac and quite frankly the widgets and gadgets and mini apps that come STANDARD in OSX, and the ones that are open source, just.freaking.rock. I predominantly do middle of the road coding (BBEdit) and minor programming (JavaScript and Perl, still getting PHP down), a lot of graphic work (photos and vector work), and just playing around.

I *love* this machine.

Seriously, it's so worth it it's obscene.

My productivity and satisfaction with my job have skyrocketed, which was something I didn't expect, being newer to OSX, and very familiar with Windows.

But there you go. As listless said, YMMV, but I can't see myself moving back to a PC.

nike_guy_man — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 20:30:13 +0000

Well, I did get to the store
Here's my general impression:
Advantages
I can load as many apps as I want at once, no problem
Small apps load much quicker
Reboots and shutdowns are much faster.
Disadvantages
COST Is it really worth it to spend $1700 on this?
Software. Should I really pay all that to get Virtual PC so I can run my Windows apps? Will they run the same? Or should I pay even more to get the Mac versions?

For me, it's basically a question of Price VS Stability and Power
Mac users: Is it worth it? Or should I stick with my broken down Windows XP? (Stability there? NO)