On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Roger Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Just my experience, FWIW. > > I owned four 12" Powerbooks... loved em. Always had good desktops at > the office and home, never felt cramped. I used to travel more too - > for a while I was commuting cross-country ever other week, and > frequently took two machines - my PowerBook and my corporate Dell > laptop (also a small one, I believe 12").
I have a powerful machine at home and wifey's air, that could be cadged for ultralite travel. I can also access decent desktops at work, so this machine doesn't need to be in regular use for Photo manipulations in Aperture, Video edits of whatever kind, Manipulation of large data sets etc. > I upgraded, grudgingly at first, to a Macbook when they came out - the > performance of the 12" by that point had just become unbearable, and > the Macbook was like greased lightning. I thought I'd be annoyed with > the size - even though the Macbook was still somewhat small - and in > fact took it on a long, mostly foot-bound trip through Italy just a > few weeks after getting it. The weight and size never bothered me, but > I figured that'd be as big as I could go comfortably. My Laptop lineage: PowerBook 165 PowerBook Duo 230c Powerbook G3 "Lombard" PowerBook G4 "Mercury" PowerBook G4 17 "Hammerhead" >> (wifey) iBook G4 PowerBook G4 15 1.67 Macbook Rev1 >> (wifey) MacBook Air and now... ? so I have had just about every extreme of weight and size that there has been (if wifey's Air is included) and I really notice the difference... ...but whether this is offset by screen real estate is debatable. The real killers on real estate are NNW and Entourage. I hate the latter, but may have to use it (or outlook) much more in the future if the threatened mail redirect ban comes into force at work. Its also nice to have enough width to have two editor windows open side by side, but this is luxury, rather than necessity. [...] > If I did much air travel these days I'm sure I'd feel differently... > but right now, I love this form factor. I've considered getting a > cheap little netbook as an alternative for those rare moments I want > to take something more than an iPhone, but less than my 17"... I'm not even considering the 17, but I might go out to 15. I'm on long (2 to 6 hours each way) train journey's regularly. Trains are far less cramped than a coach seat on a plane, still non-table seats in the ICE are a tad cramped for a 15. > Note - I do a mix of work... I regularly work with massive image > files, so even the 4GB I have stuffed in it isn't nearly enough, but > it's the best I could get at the time. I do a good bit of writing, > reports, presentations, and a healthy mix of Web and desktop > scripting. The huge display is a godsend - I could never work in > FlexBuilder on a lower-rez display - feels much closer to my home/work > experience with multiple monitors on each machine. I can usually organize things such that stuff that kills the laptop can be done at home, or on an alternative work machine, so the attraction of the 15 is almost exclusively the screen estate. Ho hum. I'm supposed to call it on Monday before pissing off to Austria for a week on Tuesday. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
