4760

Surprisingly, no one has posted pics of their 4760 yet, and I guess the internet abhors a vacuum.

So here are some pics of my notebook... I got someone to also take a few with me in them, as a way to give a sense of the size and ergonomics of the machine.

I also should mention, that the 6-in-1 card reader really kicks ass. I borrowed a Canon PowerShot G2 equipped with a 1 GB MicroDrive to take the pictures, and when I was done, I just inserted the MicroDrive card into my notebook and it showed up in My Computer like a hard drive. No "detected new hardware", no driver installation, I just copied the files off and deleted them from the card, and pulled the card out when I was done. How cool is that?? OK, Microsoft gets some points.








Here is the notebook side by side with my Kyocera 7135.



The sticker on the lid is the porcupine from the Free State Project.






It's a little unwieldy, not as light as my 15" Powerbook, but the screen is a lot nicer. (its default lower gamma makes the Powerbook look washed out, and you can't argue with that much additional real estate.) I'd like to do a side-by-side with my Powerbook and NEC 18" flat screen monitor to test viewing angles, but I only thought of it after the camera had been reclaimed by its owners. Maybe later.

Yes, that is a snowflake on my shirt, and yes, I am in Florida. Deal with it.

Re: Re: 4760

Thanks for the link! those are interesting articles. Right off the bat I agree with his most recent one about insider trading. I'll put that site on my list. What other sorts of stuff do you read? Always nice to meet people interested in sane politics!

I'm not signed up to move, but I'm *this* close to going for it. The deadline to join before the vote closes to new members is August 15, and it seems like it would be cool to participate in the vote if you're going to do it at all.

How synchronicitous...

A sticker for yourself? Don't go too crazy!

Seriously, I'm glad you're both considering Sagers. The 4760 is a fabulous machine and so far I am just in love with it.

Cheers!

It's sort of like comparing apples to oranges. The PowerBook is cute, but the OS awkward in a lot of ways. Like the fact that there are still resource forks, and if you try to go into the command prompt and 'mv' a native Mac file, you destroy it because you didn't move the resource fork - you have to use a special move command. I really see the mac mostly as a power toy. A very functional power toy, since it's been my main development machine for almost five months, but after almost six years away from macs (in college I was quite the devoted user) I now just can't get used to the metaphors again, and the capability that my PowerMac has (1 GHz, vs. the 3 GHz chip in my 4760; 4200 rpm hd, vs. 5400 in the Sager) when I spent almost the same amount on each machine, is kind of shocking.

No one can make up your mind for you... it seems to me that it still comes down to what your main tasks are: if you have to exchange desktop publishing files with graphic design coworkers then you need to get a mac, if you have to work with excel documents on a windows share you need a PC, and if you are a developer, then you probably crave unix.

Good luck...

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It never would have occurred to me that the resolution is less than good. It's larger than the 1280x1024 that I'm used to, so to me it is very ample. OTOH, 1600x1200 is just too dense for me. I'm nearsighted, and even with glasses/contacts I find myself squinting at a 1600x1200 laptop screen.

LOL - yes, but she's married

Nice! I like your unamerican activities selections. I believe the 128mb version is coming out in the fall? do I have that right? ... October, I thought.

I love Thomas Sowell. Haven't read much of the others though... Do you ever read Andrew Sullivan? Ayn Rand is cool IMO. Almost as cool (in terms of quirky ideological historical figures) as Aleister Crowley. I recommend Anthem (for a taste of her fiction) and The Virtue of Selfishness (for a taste of her philosophy) - both are short. And beware of Objectivists.

Well, the time frame is generous - the move doesn't start until after the project has 20,000 members, and they are only approaching 5,000 now (after 3 years, though the signup rate is accelerating.) After the 20,000 mark is reached, the original signers have 5 years to complete the move. Also, the work I do for PC Torque could be done long-distance, though perhaps not quite so efficiently. I'm their webmaster and software maintainer, and I could probably also take calls from a distance too since all the email/database stores are online.

(Er, is it just me, or is this thread devolving into off-topic? )

Oh, wierd. What show is that? "andromeda"? (I don't watch much TV but I used to watch sci-fi when I did)

If your sig isn't facetious and you really are a socialist, you might find yourself turned off by her philosophy. She is violently opposed to collectivism of any sort. Kind of her defining feature, you might say.