November 20, 2003

They are here!

The powerbooks are here!

Lots of pics to upload, but gonna keep track of thoughts as they happen.

  • Packaging is brilliant. Fantastic presentation. Lots of "new" smell.
  • After selecting "English" for the language on bootup, the status screen that follows was in chinese or japanese. Hmm. After that, English.
  • Setting up wireless was less than intuitive - the manual was useless. I had to refer to Apple web support to learn I needed to prefix the WEP key with "0x".
  • Why'd it default to Wales, Cardiff for my timezone?!
  • Lots of software updates and reboots going on. Two restarts so far. Feels like Windows.
  • Damn it's fast.
  • The keyboard is almost an erotic experience, it's so nice to type on.
  • I still prefer my Intellimouse
  • Damn it's fast.
  • System Preferences - Appearance - Font smoothing style is set to "Best for CRT" ... erm, no Cathode Ray Tube on this laptop. Shouldn't it already be set to "Best for Flat Panel"?
  • How do I password protect the screensaver?
  • I like the dock on the right, set to almost smallest size possible, with magnification. I like autohide. The weeks spent with the ibook have saved me time in learning the best way to set that up.
  • Damn it's fast.
  • Screensaver password is in Security
  • Bluetooth - super range! Better than with the dongle on the other laptop. Uploading images in an instant. How do I send them to another computer though? I need to "Show Bluetooth Status" in the toolbar, then click on it and select "Send File". It'd be nice if Send File was an option on the right-click menu in Finder.
  • 1280x865 is a weird resolution. It appears shorter and wider than the 1400x1050 even though it's not wider....
  • Why isn't "Use trackpad for Clicking/Dragging" enabled by default?
  • Default paper size is US Letter - excuse me, you imperialistic bastards? I said my locale was UK....
  • Damn it's fast.
  • Sosumi :-)
  • Flawless networking... grabbing files off the other laptop without a problem.
  • GraphicConverter! Bundled! For! Free!
  • Finder is confusing me.

Time to migrate mail.

Posted by savs at November 20, 2003 11:58 AM | TrackBack
Comments

ROFL while reading this ;-)
What kind of PowerBook is it to be so fast?

Posted by: Sylvain Wallez at November 20, 2003 05:24 PM

It's a 1.25ghz G4 (the new 15 inch type)
Did I mention it's damn fast? ;-)

Posted by: Andrew Savory at November 20, 2003 10:28 PM