It’s been a long time since I’ve owned a computer made by Apple, probably since 1996-7 when I boxed up my Centris 660AV for the last time, but yesterday I became an Apple owner again!
I’ve had Powerbook lust for a long time now, especially for the sexy little one. My work laptop is a Dell Inspiron 8500, which has plenty of power for development and a nice bright widescreen display, but it’s too large to work with in coach on most airlines, and it weighs a ton. I wasn’t ready to spend a ton of money on a new Powerbook, though, so I decided recently to just set a limit (well under $1000), and keep playing the eBay game until I won an auction.
Which happened this last week, and yesterday I brought home a 12", 1.0GHz G4 Powerbook with 768MB of RAM and a 60GB drive. The case has a small scratch, and the "eject" key needs to be repaired (I think I’ll end up ignoring it or replacing the keyboard, depending on the cost of the latter), but otherwise it’s in pretty nice shape. I’m in the middle of installing software this weekend (Tiger, MS Office, Firefox, NetNewsWire, Eclipse, TextWrangler/BBEdit) and then I’m in business.
One question, for Mac aficionado readers — I’m a big user of Microsoft OneNote for outlining and notetaking on Windows. Does anybody have recommendations for a Mac equivalent?
I’m so happy to be back in the fold again. It’s been too long.
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