My Little Glowing Friend
Well, FedEx tracking is a little off--the new iBook wasn't even supposed to be in my hands until Monday--but their efficiency is commendable. Obvisouly, it has arrived. I spent the evening moving over files and applications, preferences, bookmarks, that sort of thing, and it appears to be pretty much exactly where I left off with the old one. Only the screen is bigger. And even though it has the exact same resolution as the 12", it feels a lot bigger. It is bigger than our CRT iMac. Much easier on my aging eyes.
Preliminary review: I like the keyboard, but I'm not sure about the matte grey interior. I burned a DVD just to make sure there really is a SuperDrive in there--I'll have a lot of fun with that! Let the cinematics begin! The super speedy G4 processor really makes things snappy. Quartz graphics are an improvement. I think I have plenty of RAM for a while (512), and it's weird to have more free space on the HD than my old iBook even had in the first place. It can't really make the internet any faster, and I don't know where and when I'll get near a "g" network, so good old vanilla WiFi will have to do. All in all, I'll keep this one for a while.
Like a beacon of hope in the night...
PS I still need to retrieve my iTunes scripts and figure out where my email addresses went. Other than that, it seems great! As they say in Ronald McDonald land, "I'm lovin' it!"
Well, FedEx tracking is a little off--the new iBook wasn't even supposed to be in my hands until Monday--but their efficiency is commendable. Obvisouly, it has arrived. I spent the evening moving over files and applications, preferences, bookmarks, that sort of thing, and it appears to be pretty much exactly where I left off with the old one. Only the screen is bigger. And even though it has the exact same resolution as the 12", it feels a lot bigger. It is bigger than our CRT iMac. Much easier on my aging eyes.
Preliminary review: I like the keyboard, but I'm not sure about the matte grey interior. I burned a DVD just to make sure there really is a SuperDrive in there--I'll have a lot of fun with that! Let the cinematics begin! The super speedy G4 processor really makes things snappy. Quartz graphics are an improvement. I think I have plenty of RAM for a while (512), and it's weird to have more free space on the HD than my old iBook even had in the first place. It can't really make the internet any faster, and I don't know where and when I'll get near a "g" network, so good old vanilla WiFi will have to do. All in all, I'll keep this one for a while.
Like a beacon of hope in the night...
PS I still need to retrieve my iTunes scripts and figure out where my email addresses went. Other than that, it seems great! As they say in Ronald McDonald land, "I'm lovin' it!"
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