Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Feb 2003 19:02 UTC
My CTX AMD K6-300/128 MB RAM/3 GB drive laptop is obviously at the end of its life. I was in the "shopping" process for a laptop for 2 months now, and I considered a number of PC laptops, including the Compaq Presario 1525US. At the end, I decided to get the new 12" Powerbook, came in last week, and I am since then using it as my primary machine. Here is what I think about it.
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Heat does really become an issue if you are doing processor intensive stuff with the processor set to full. Just doing simple browsing, word processing the system is nice and cool. Compiling a bunch of code for a while and the thing is a furnace.
I had the same "crash" Eugenia referred to... the disconnecting crash. This was after I wiped the machine to begin to make it mine. I'm a bit apprehensive to call it a crash since the mouse still worked and the stupid water drop kept going back and forth....
As for the screen, I find it better then the ibook's. For some reason, the font smooting comes preset for "best for crt"... duh. I changed it to best for flat-panel and also changed the font smoothing size to 10 (from 8). This leaves the print very nice. The viewing angle issue does kinda stink though.
The performance is very nice. Much, much faster then the 800 ibook. I don't have xbench scores for it since most of the time with it has been spent building my tool sets and personal niceties. However, the interface is nice and snappy (I too would like to see the mouse move a bit quicker though), code compiles nice and fast, music encodes really quick.
The build quality is just amazing... really unmatched by anything I have seen in the market place. The system is more "machined" then assembled.
The keyboard is also simply amazing.
I have the airport extreme installed, although it is only running at b speeds. The range does appear to be a bit less then the ibook, although I have not done side by side stumblers, there are area's in the house where the ibook showed full lines while the pb would drop a line.
I think the ibook does have better battery life then the pb.... I really haven't seen the indicator tell me that I have more then 3.8 hours. It's probably a bit early to tell as it really hasn't been pushed with the exception of the recommended drain.
It would be nice to have the 1mb L3 and it would also be nice not risk sterilizing myself if I'm compiling a large app with the thing on my lap. On the other hand, I'd buy it all over again, in a heart-beat.