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TiBook Serves With 3rd Infantry Division
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
March 8th 2003
US Army not awash with Macs - except for some critical operations.
There's only one Mac out in the Kuwaiti desert with the US army - and it's a Titanium
PowerBook G4.
Its owner-driver, Major Shawn Weed, is an intelligence planner with the Third Infantry
Division, who monitors satellite and reconnaissance data, according to a story at
Wired.
The US Army generally runs Panasonic [owned by Matsushita] Toughbooks, the ruggedized
laptops made specifically for harsh environments. But, by battling the Army's IT
department, Weed made sure he got a PowerBook, instead of thw Wintel laptop running
Windows 2000.
Weed says in the article that his work - which is classified - is easier to do on the
PowerBook, and the Panasonics weren't fast enough when he was working with very large
images.
"Frankly, lives are in the balance here, so the quicker I can get stuff done
accurately, the better," Weed says in the article. "The Mac makes this work simple,
quick and efficient. The other laptops either can't open the files or lock up halfway
through, losing whatever I was working on at the time, and then (I have) to restart
the computer and start over."
The Major totes the 1GHz model and his OS of choice is X.
Analysis: Well it's better than the SE/30 Osama & Co. were toting around Tora Bora
[no offence to SE/30 fans intended]. As the article says, Macs are in widespread use
among the news crews. I had a CNN cameraman mail me a while back, telling me of how he
used his Pismo every day with about four expansion bay hard drives (around 30GB each
back then, IIRC) to hold all the pro video footage he shot during the day. He was
stationed in the Middle East and covered the Gulf War. So at least when it comes to
satellites, suveillance and media footage, there's nothing quite like a PowerBook. And
we bet the Titanium could survive being run over by a tank.
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