Re: "Less is more" or "Bigger is better"

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Andrew F. wrote: > Bigger hard drive is always easy, and 1.33 vs 1.22GHz should be > unnooticeable. I dimly recall that there's an issue concerning the ratio of the cpu and bus speeds? IE, wasted cycles waiting for alignment/synchronization. If true, the effect of a slightly

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On 1/1/05 12:15 PM, "Andrew F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 12", in contrast, is so small that even if the passenger in front of me > reclines, I won't have my screen crunched. That, and of course I still have > room on my tray table, as opposed to bleeding over into another person's > space

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On 1/2/05 8:25 AM, "Al Poulin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > Is this also true after the first year warrantee expires, while the > machine is under AppleCare? Yes. Kyle Hansen -- "The best way out is always through." -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by

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Is this also true after the first year warrantee expires, while the machine is under AppleCare? Thanks, Kyle Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/1/05 9:29 AM, "Andrew F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: Bigger hard drive is always easy, and 1.33 vs 1.22GHz should be unnooticeabl

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On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 09:17:25 -0500, Greg Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an old MAC-SE. I'm going to put a handle on it and I already have > a cover I can cut a hole in it so the handle comes through. > Does anyone have any ideas on where I could find a battery for it? A post about Mac

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I have an old MAC-SE. I'm going to put a handle on it and I already have a cover I can cut a hole in it so the handle comes through. Does anyone have any ideas on where I could find a battery for it? Claire Hart wrote: Personally, I bought my 12" to use as a true portable, a decision I have neve

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What I'm waiting for is wearables to happen with floating 20" images in glasses. We've all been there with the Virtual Reality Craze of last decade... I still remember 16-page booklets containing just disclaimers of how these kind of glasses can damage your eyes/make you vomit/turn you into a se

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Andrew F. said: > By the way, I am neither lazy nor out >of shape, and the extra pound or more of a large laptop DOES make a >difference when carried all day. Not in a backpack, it doesn't. This is definitively one of the best ways to carry a portable computer around. I don't notice a pound more

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Andrew F. said: > Of >course, to be wide enough to give some benefit (15 and 17" PB) makes the >machine too wide to be used well as a portable, making it really a portable >desktop. Unless you think "portable" means "moving around while in use" I strongly disagree, at least for 15", which I feel

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He probably had his drink in the little cup indentation and balanced his PowerBook on the rest of the tray. By the way, I didn't call 17" owners idiots, only one particular guy I saw who made a real mess out of a 2-hour flight. I actually do see rational reasons for buying such machines, graphic

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Personally, I bought my 12" to use as a true portable, a decision I have never regretted, especially when I see people trying to use bigger laptops such as Titanium PowerBooks in crowded airplanes. I actually saw some poor idiot's 17" PowreBook get pushed by a passing flight attendant, the res

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The flip-up screen on the Pismo is wonderful for tinkering, but the rigid mount keyboard on the aluminum books are just delightful. I don't get why the 12" and even 14" iBooks are so difficult to swap hard drives on though, as they have flip-up KBs like the Pismo and Lombard, I call that poor desi

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Yes, Di-No in Pasadena wanted $80 for the job and are fully Apple authorized. I used to be a tech support trainer (in the PowerBook 5300 days) and am used to taking laptops apart, so I decided to try it myself. As a guy with lots of experience inside modern laptops, the 12" PB was still VERY diffi

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12" PowerBook fits great on my lap. By the way, I am neither lazy nor out of shape, and the extra pound or more of a large laptop DOES make a difference when carried all day. My 12" PB weighs a bit under 2lbs less than my Pismo, and for carrying around town as I go from place to place, in and out

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On 1/1/05 3:12 PM, "Andrew F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > My warranty expired three days before I did the upgrade, which I did myself, > though it was far from an easy job (as it is on older G3 PowerBooks). Yeah. The 12" books still take me about 20 minutes where a Pismo ta

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My warranty expired three days before I did the upgrade, which I did myself, though it was far from an easy job (as it is on older G3 PowerBooks). Andrew On 1/1/05 1:06 PM, "Kyle Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/1/05 9:29 AM, "Andrew F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the > Cybertrough:

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On 1/1/05 1:46 PM, "Brian Rule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > That seems a little excessive, don't you think? > Brian I never said that I agreed with their policy... Kyle Hansen -- "The best way out is always through." -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by

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That seems a little excessive, don't you think? Brian On Jan 1, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: On 1/1/05 1:15 PM, "Brian Rule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: Aren't there apple authorize tech out there that will do it for considerably cheaper? Nope. All Apple laptop repair th

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On 1/1/05 1:15 PM, "Brian Rule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > Aren't there apple authorize tech out there that will do it for > considerably cheaper? Nope. All Apple laptop repair that is *in* warranty has to be done at one of 2 service centers. Dallas and Memphis. Memphis h

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Aren't there apple authorize tech out there that will do it for considerably cheaper? Brian On Jan 1, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: But if you didn't pay a premium and have Apple do it your warranty is now void. Kyle Hansen -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small

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I've used laptops larger an more bulky than my 14" on airplanes with no issues, although, airplane use doesn't matter much to me since I don't really travel like that these days. My 14", like i've said, goes nearly everywhere with me, and with no effort. I often hear people complain about how

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On 1/1/05 9:29 AM, "Andrew F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > Bigger hard drive is always easy, and 1.33 vs 1.22GHz should be > unnooticeable. My 12" Powerbook 1GHz has 2 2/3 the storage and more speed > from the upgrade to an 80GB 5400RPM TravelStar, in an even smaller and > l

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On Jan 1, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Andrew F. wrote: Hands never rest on the 3/4" strip of plastic on the sides of the keyboard, Not true - I looked as I was reading your post, and that's EXACTLY where my hands were - the weight on the outsides of the palms & along the pinky fingers, poised to move wher

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Speaking of RSI, by the way, your hands shouldn't be touching the palmrest AT ALL, making a wider one of dubious benefit. Well, speaking of RSI, you shouldn't be typing at all, especially on a notebook. :) I have yet to see anyone who actually types WITHOUT their palms touching the palmrest, by

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The 15" and 17" PowerBooks are much wider machines than the 12", but the 14" iBook and older 14" PowerBooks are not wide enough to get any benefit. Of course, to be wide enough to give some benefit (15 and 17" PB) makes the machine too wide to be used well as a portable, making it really a portabl

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Hands never rest on the 3/4" strip of plastic on the sides of the keyboard, and that space has no ergonomic benefit. The deeper palmrest may have some benefit, but the difference is very minor. That space has no ergonomic benefit indeed, but the corresponding space on the palmrest has. When you

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How could a one inch slab of plastic alongside the keys be useful. My Pismo and 12" PowerBook have the same keybaord size, and the only ergonomic advantages to the Pismo are that the screen is higher and the text is larger. For touch typing, the 12" PowerBook is actually a far more comfortable ma

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Why would that be, they have THE EXACT SAME KEYBOARD, the 14" just has more wasted space on each side of it. From the standpoint of ergonomics, this space is far from being wasted... Marcin Wichary e:\> [EMAIL PROTECTED] w:\> www.aci.com.pl/mwichary >> Attached w:\> www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/

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Why would that be, they have THE EXACT SAME KEYBOARD, the 14" just has more wasted space on each side of it. Andrew On 1/1/05 11:25 AM, "Bryan Kattwinkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 1/1/05 12:46 AM, MTH wrote: > >> unless your >> eyesight is failing there isn't much advantage to the 14".

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on 1/1/05 12:46 AM, MTH wrote: >unless your >eyesight is failing there isn't much advantage to the 14". If you have large or even medium size hands, you might find the 14 more comfortable for typing. -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://w

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Bigger hard drive is always easy, and 1.33 vs 1.22GHz should be unnooticeable. My 12" Powerbook 1GHz has 2 2/3 the storage and more speed from the upgrade to an 80GB 5400RPM TravelStar, in an even smaller and lighter package. On 1/1/05 3:35 AM, "Tim Collier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How ab

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On Jan 1, 2005, at 1:20 AM, Andrew F. wrote: But a 4lb laptop is lighter still. Those who claim it makes no difference, just haven't tried it yet. Thye argument isn't whether there's a difference, but whether it's worth it *to you* - how much you move it around, how much you do with the screen

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On Jan 1, 2005, at 5:35 AM, Tim Collier wrote: How about twice the storage capacity and a 1.33 gig processor as opposed to a 1.2? You can order a 12" with a larger hard drive and I don't think that I would notice any difference between 1.2GHz and 1.33Ghz. ~~

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How about twice the storage capacity and a 1.33 gig processor as opposed to a 1.2? On 12/31/04 8:30 PM, "MTH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You won't gain any screen real-estate by getting a 14" iBook, it has > the same 1024 x 768 resolution that the 12" iBooks have. unless your > eyesight is fai

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But a 4lb laptop is lighter still. Those who claim it makes no difference, just haven't tried it yet. Andrew On 12/31/04 5:13 PM, "Brian Rule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you carry around a bag full of books everywhere, a 7 lb laptop > isn't going to feel like much. In fact, when I do g

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On 12/31/04 10:44 AM, "diane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am contemplating a *book purchase myself and find that I'm leaning > towards the 14" systems. I use 2-21" on the desktop and I'm not sure > I can do one 12" LOL > The thing to keep in mind with the iBook is that the 12" and 14" LCD

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On Dec 31, 2004, at 9:44 AM, diane wrote: At 12:47 AM -0500 12/31/04, John wrote: Andrew F. wrote: I love my 12", even now that I'm not in school anymore, its still nice to have a laptop that is so small and light that I actually do bring it out with me. Andrew I really like my 12" iceBook 700.

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When you carry around a bag full of books everywhere, a 7 lb laptop isn't going to feel like much. In fact, when I do go around with only my laptop the bag feels as light as a feather. On Dec 31, 2004, at 12:50 AM, Andrew F. wrote: Most people would. I prefer the 14" screen of my Pismo over th

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At 12:47 AM -0500 12/31/04, John wrote: Andrew F. wrote: I love my 12", even now that I'm not in school anymore, its still nice to have a laptop that is so small and light that I actually do bring it out with me. Andrew I really like my 12" iceBook 700. But in all honesty, if I could trade it for

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An interesting thread, so I thought I'd chime in. My Pismo is my main computer. . .period. I use it at home docked on it's multiple fan cooling station, elevated for my ergonomic needs, which of course is connected to my Firewire and USB devices. Oh and on the subject of screen real estate?

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Most people would. I prefer the 14" screen of my Pismo over the 12" screen of my AlBook, but not enough to fuss with the extra size and weight. I used to carry around 7lb full-sized laptops everywhere I went, and didn't know how bad it was only because I didn't know that there was a better way.

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My iBook G4 14" works wonders for me. I do almost all of my college notes, projects, assignments, papers etc on it. Pretty much my whole life is on it. On top of that, it goes just about everywhere with me, and even though it's a 14" iBook, I have no problem at all toting it around. It may

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Your iBook, the 14" and the Wallstreet all have the exact same amount of real estate (resolution), its just the size of the dots that is different, rather than the number of them. Yes, the 14" screen on my Pismo is more pleasant to look at (from a distance) than that of my 12" PowerBook, but the 1

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Andrew F. wrote: I love my 12", even now that I'm not in school anymore, its still nice to have a laptop that is so small and light that I actually do bring it out with me. Andrew I really like my 12" iceBook 700. But in all honesty, if I could trade it for an equal 14" version, I'd do it in a min

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I love my 12", even now that I'm not in school anymore, its still nice to have a laptop that is so small and light that I actually do bring it out with me. Andrew On 12/30/04 9:25 PM, "Claire Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was out of town for a week, so didn't carefully read all of my ema

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I was out of town for a week, so didn't carefully read all of my email, somehow missing the original post regarding "less is more" or "bigger is better." I'm assuming this discussion is comparing sizes of 'books. I bought the 17" PB last summer. I LOVE all of the features, but it is not so e

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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Jim Dynes wrote: > No No No!! > > If a little is good, then more is better > But less/little is only more in comparison *to* more; more cannot be better...unless less is best ! -- Non Illegitimi Carborundum -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small

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But when lugging it across airports and trying to use in a crowded coach-class seat, less is definitely more. Andrew On 12/29/04 9:38 PM, "Jim Dynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No No No!! > > If a little is good, then more is better > -- G-Books is sponsored by a

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No No No!! If a little is good, then more is better -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac