Posting from a powerbook G4.

[notfred]

Too bad it's in the Apple store and not my apartment.

BTW, Apple customer service rocks, they'll take back stuff under warranty even when you tried to pry it open with a screwdriver

 

[MercenaryForHire]

/looks over from behind the desk

Hey! You! Get the hell off the Powerbook!

- M4H

 

[notfred]

Ok, I've got to get out of here before traffic gets bad..... an hour and 20 minutes back to Sacramento now.

 

[randomlinh]

ugh.. i want a 12" powerbook but my budget had only room for the 12" ibook.. and a refurbed one (wanted the combo drive. heh).

 

[ElFenix]

i want a powerbook or an ibook but the testing software only runs on pcs

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: lnguyen
ugh.. i want a 12" powerbook but my budget had only room for the 12" ibook.. and a refurbed one (wanted the combo drive. heh).

Well I've got a 12" iBook w/ a combo drive.... The 12" Powerbook costs $200 more than I paid for my iBook last summer.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: lnguyen
ugh.. i want a 12" powerbook but my budget had only room for the 12" ibook.. and a refurbed one (wanted the combo drive. heh).

Well I've got a 12" iBook w/ a combo drive.... The 12" Powerbook costs $200 more than I paid for my iBook last summer.

and if you are a student you can join the ADC and get another $400 off the 12" powerbook.

Dont get the superdrive, its only a 1x DVD burner. You can get a PC 4x burner for the same price

 

[iamme]

them is some nice lookin' lappies.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: notfred
Too bad it's in the Apple store and not my apartment.

BTW, Apple customer service rocks, they'll take back stuff under warranty even when you tried to pry it open with a screwdriver

And you know this screwdriver-thing, how, exactly?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: notfred
Too bad it's in the Apple store and not my apartment.

BTW, Apple customer service rocks, they'll take back stuff under warranty even when you tried to pry it open with a screwdriver

And you know this screwdriver-thing, how, exactly?

My AC wall adapter stopped working and my laptop wouldn't charge. I thought I might have pulled a wire loose inside it or something. So, I got a screwdriver and tried to pry the plastic casing off, to see if I could get to any possibly broken wire inside.

Thing is, the casing doesn't really come off, it jsut cracks and leaves big gouge marks.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: notfred
Too bad it's in the Apple store and not my apartment.

BTW, Apple customer service rocks, they'll take back stuff under warranty even when you tried to pry it open with a screwdriver

And you know this screwdriver-thing, how, exactly?

My AC wall adapter stopped working and my laptop wouldn't charge. I thought I might have pulled a wire loose inside it or something. So, I got a screwdriver and tried to pry the plastic casing off, to see if I could get to any possibly broken wire inside.

Thing is, the casing doesn't really come off, it jsut cracks and leaves big gouge marks.

HA! You made a funny...that's a first!!!! Very nice. "Big gouge marks" huh? It's cool that they took it back. So, thinking that somehow you pulled a wire loose inside a COMPLETELY SEALED CASE, you pried it open with what amounts to a crowbar...and then, magically, it no longer worked, huh?

 

[imported_Papi]

haha I wanna apple

 

[randomlinh]

save $400?? how?? what's this ADC thing?

my ibook was $1200 w/ wireless and some extra memory. midyear last year i believe, refurb. my friend got a 12" powerbook, similar extra's made it $800 more than i could spare now :/

 

[mpitts]

I'm posting from a PowerBook too. 1Ghz 15.2"

It IS at my house and there are no wires attached.

 

[MazerRackham]

15.2 Powerbook post! But... all my posts are from my Powerbook Life is good...

 

[randomlinh]

actually, does anyone know if the antenna for the wireless in the 15" powerbook has changed since the 600mhz G4? my friend has it, and it's range is horrible compared to my ibook.

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: lnguyen
actually, does anyone know if the antenna for the wireless in the 15" powerbook has changed since the 600mhz G4? my friend has it, and it's range is horrible compared to my ibook.

Nope.

It still sucks pretty badly. That is pretty much the ONLY thing about my G4 PowerBook that I am unhappy with.

 

[Utterman]

Originally posted by: lnguyen
actually, does anyone know if the antenna for the wireless in the 15" powerbook has changed since the 600mhz G4? my friend has it, and it's range is horrible compared to my ibook.

No it hasn't yet. Even the 17" powerbook has the problem with low range. The ibook has the antennas located along the LCD while the powerbooks are in the base. Hopefully Apple will wise up sometime to fix this problem. The range rocks on the ibook!



<----Hopefully buying a new iBook/Powerbook at the end of the year

 

[gotsmack]

how do you open pages in a new window in osX? I normally hold down the cmouse button and press down to get that menu thing. Thats what I hate about my iBook and macs in general. No right mouse button.

 

[Schadenfreude]

I want to get one and some academic software (photoshop, macromedia studio mx, coreldraw) before I graduate, but I don't have any $$ . . .. (plus 3Dstudio 5.0 is PC only, apparently)

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by: lnguyen
actually, does anyone know if the antenna for the wireless in the 15" powerbook has changed since the 600mhz G4? my friend has it, and it's range is horrible compared to my ibook.

No "new" (alumininum) 15" PB have been released, but I know the 12" PB has much better reception than the a Tibook so I'm assuming the 15" and 17 Albooks will have as good a range as the 12".


Lethal

 

[SuperSix]

<yawn>

 

[Mallow]

"they'll take back stuff under warranty even when you tried to pry it open with a screwdriver"

lol, is this from personal experience I take it?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Utterman

Originally posted by: lnguyen
actually, does anyone know if the antenna for the wireless in the 15" powerbook has changed since the 600mhz G4? my friend has it, and it's range is horrible compared to my ibook.

No it hasn't yet. Even the 17" powerbook has the problem with low range. The ibook has the antennas located along the LCD while the powerbooks are in the base. Hopefully Apple will wise up sometime to fix this problem. The range rocks on the ibook!



<----Hopefully buying a new iBook/Powerbook at the end of the year

Odd, Apple said in their introduction of the 12/17 PB's that the antenna was in the screen like the iBook. Anyhow, for those of you with 15" PB's, there's supposedly a trick to re-align the antenna by removing the battery, but I don't know the specifics.

 

[Ciber]

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?family=PowerBook


What are they smoking? You can get like 2 windows based Laptops for the price of 1 apple.......