OFF Topics :: PC-laptop or Powerbook

Donald Major Donald.Major at sas.com
Tue Oct 4 19:50:21 UTC 2005


And if a powerbook seems too much, I find the low end iBook with some
RAM added is very comfortable, too.

tim Rowledge wrote:

>
> On 4-Oct-05, at 12:19 PM, Squeak Smalltalk wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I will change job soon and I have to decide which type of laptop I want.
>> I have always had pc-laptops.
>> But I see that a lot of squeak programers use powerbooks.
>>
>> If you use a powerbook give me some advice ?
>
> I've had a high end winXP laptop - lovely hardware, superb screen,
> nice keyboard - and hated it. battery life of 45 minutes is not my
> idea of fun. winXP is, if anything, worse than the windows 3.0 I had
> to debug VisualWorks 1.0 on in 1991.
>
> I've had an older G3 powerbook - the funky black ones -and it was ok.
> decent battery life, good all round hardware quality but OS 9.x stunk.
>
> I now have a pBook G4 15" and it's rather nice. Good performance,
> tolerable UI (not good, but tolerable), decent battery life and OSX
> tiger is quite good. Spotlight in particular seems to be the beginning
> of a real change for the better in the UI experience. Right now I'm
> using it attached to a big screen/external kdb etc as my main machine.
> Yes, you heard it here first, tim is no longer living on a RISC OS
> machine.
>
> I submit that they are well worth the apparent price premium, though I
> don't think it is much of a premium over any decent quality winXP
> laptop. If you compare with the el-cheapo's then ... well never mind.
>
>
> tim

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