Finally I got me a notebook. After very hard decicion and over a month of search I decided to go with the 15" Powerbook G4 superdrive.
My first impression? Wow..
My father came home very late with the PB but when he did arrive i immediedly plugged it in and waited for the battery to be fully charged, read the manual and just watched the computer, damn it's beautiful.
Finally the wait was over, 3 hours to school but I didn't care, my first notebook was ready. I turned it on, very quiet. Then came some very easy setups, asking me my name and so on. Having used windows in very long time this was amazing. The computer was up & running, ready to go the internet after about 8 minutes. Just simply amazing. I started getting some programs, just trying the computer out. Just great. Thin, light, small, beautiful, power. What more do you want?
I read some cons about the computer, dead pixels, the hatch doesn't close, not very long battery.. I seem to have been very lucky. I have no dead pixel, the hatch closes perfectly and on my first test I got about 3 hours and 15 minutes, and that was downloading, installing, surfing. Just fooling around. I was impressed, but just to be sure, since I'm going to use this computer at school I got a extra battery, it amazed me how light the battery was, I was expecting much heavier battery.
Now I've been using this computer for about whole day and I must say, it was even more than I expect it. In every way.
The only cons that I have noticed, since I'm very new in this is finding every program I used in windows. Some of them doesn't work in apple and I have no idea what is simular to them that works in Apple, but I think google will help me with that.
And also the one-mouse thing, that annoys me a bit, but that is just something I will have to get used to, and also just learning how the Mac os X works.
If somebody is looking for a notebook that is good in schools and if you like to you can even play games on I would reccomend the 15" Powerbook.
I looked at all the other apple notebooks and I found the 14" iBook is just.. Well it's ugly compared to powerbook I think, and the 12" iBook has to little power with to little screen. Both of them on the other hand have acctual battery life.
The 12" Powerbook has power, style, it's quite good acctualy, but if you need some extra firewire, usb and you are watching alot of movies on your screen, and also reading alot from it I say, take the 15" the battery life can be fixed with a extra battery. And I think about 3 hours is quite good. I probably can get 4 hours when I have the bluetooth turned off, brightness low and so on.
I also purchased the Ipod mini, I've had all the regular ipod´s. All the generation ( accept for the photo ). Let me just tell you.. If you have a lot of mp3 and listen to it all. Get the 20-40gb big ipods. But if you are like me have about 10gb's of mp3, but only listen to like half of it. And use your about alot at school and so on. Get the ipod mini, it's perfect. It's small, it's beautiful, it's light and you can get it in 4 different colors
So over all.. Looking for a notebook? Want to try something new? Get the 15" Powerbook, you wont regret it.
Pictures coming soon and btw.. My first review ever about something
My first impression? Wow..
My father came home very late with the PB but when he did arrive i immediedly plugged it in and waited for the battery to be fully charged, read the manual and just watched the computer, damn it's beautiful.
Finally the wait was over, 3 hours to school but I didn't care, my first notebook was ready. I turned it on, very quiet. Then came some very easy setups, asking me my name and so on. Having used windows in very long time this was amazing. The computer was up & running, ready to go the internet after about 8 minutes. Just simply amazing. I started getting some programs, just trying the computer out. Just great. Thin, light, small, beautiful, power. What more do you want?
I read some cons about the computer, dead pixels, the hatch doesn't close, not very long battery.. I seem to have been very lucky. I have no dead pixel, the hatch closes perfectly and on my first test I got about 3 hours and 15 minutes, and that was downloading, installing, surfing. Just fooling around. I was impressed, but just to be sure, since I'm going to use this computer at school I got a extra battery, it amazed me how light the battery was, I was expecting much heavier battery.
Now I've been using this computer for about whole day and I must say, it was even more than I expect it. In every way.
The only cons that I have noticed, since I'm very new in this is finding every program I used in windows. Some of them doesn't work in apple and I have no idea what is simular to them that works in Apple, but I think google will help me with that.
And also the one-mouse thing, that annoys me a bit, but that is just something I will have to get used to, and also just learning how the Mac os X works.
If somebody is looking for a notebook that is good in schools and if you like to you can even play games on I would reccomend the 15" Powerbook.
I looked at all the other apple notebooks and I found the 14" iBook is just.. Well it's ugly compared to powerbook I think, and the 12" iBook has to little power with to little screen. Both of them on the other hand have acctual battery life.
The 12" Powerbook has power, style, it's quite good acctualy, but if you need some extra firewire, usb and you are watching alot of movies on your screen, and also reading alot from it I say, take the 15" the battery life can be fixed with a extra battery. And I think about 3 hours is quite good. I probably can get 4 hours when I have the bluetooth turned off, brightness low and so on.
I also purchased the Ipod mini, I've had all the regular ipod´s. All the generation ( accept for the photo ). Let me just tell you.. If you have a lot of mp3 and listen to it all. Get the 20-40gb big ipods. But if you are like me have about 10gb's of mp3, but only listen to like half of it. And use your about alot at school and so on. Get the ipod mini, it's perfect. It's small, it's beautiful, it's light and you can get it in 4 different colors
So over all.. Looking for a notebook? Want to try something new? Get the 15" Powerbook, you wont regret it.
Pictures coming soon and btw.. My first review ever about something
