Oranges and Apples
I've coveted 12" inch iBooks for some time, they're small, light, well equipped, and have that quintessential Apple design that makes them very easy on the eye.

I've had a Toshiba Tecra A2 with a nice shiny 15" monitor for a while, and I love it, Ubuntu went on it easily and found all the hardware first-time, and it's fast and plenty of disk space, the screen's great and the keyboard's perfectly usable...so...umm...err...I bought an iBook.

In fairness, I got it unfeasibly cheap on eBay, and it even came with the highly desirable Apple packaging (yes, even their boxes are perfectly designed), so...first impressions?

• The screen is perhaps a tiny bit too small - in fairness, this means it fits in a laptop bag that doesn't look like a laptop bag.


• The keyboard is pretty annoying, the Enter key is just too small for my long fingers, I keep hitting the \ key instead of enter, which makes entering passwords a bit of a lottery at the end...


• It's Panther which is installed, which just isn't Tiger...my Mac Mini is my first prolonged exposure to Mac OS X, so...there are features missing, such as the Dashboard thingie, which I do actually miss, I'm starting to build up some useful gadgets on there.

So...am I going to become a Mac Fan Boy?

No...I'm still a Linux Geek at heart, I prefer the simplicity of command line based software, I like scripting, and there's a lot more software available, so...why did I buy an iBook then? Ummm...cos I like the simplicity of them...there are some things when the simplest way is certainly worth considering :-) Oh...and I can get World of Warcraft for the Mac too...and Dreamweaver...
- posted by bigkevmcd @ 8:40 PM