Friday, December 17, 2004
This post brought to you from a 14 inch G4 iBook
Ah, much better. That's right, by virtue of having logged out and moved three feet to the left, I'm now typing on a laptop that actually has room for my wrists. Actually, I kinda like this here 14 inch G4 iBook. I've heard a lot of pundits say that they don't understand why this model exists, and my theory was that is was for those people who wanted to buy an iBook but just couldn't live with a 12 inch screen. In other words, those with poor reading vision. But now I think I've found the real reason people buy this model: your hands don't cramp up every third sentence.
This machine, too, has a flaw that just might be fatal -- at least for me. Because while the larger 14 inch screen means that the base of the laptop is large enough to actually hold my wrists, the screen itself doesn't actually hold anything more than the 12 inch model. They both have the exact same 1024x768 resolution. For me, the larger screen would just be waste, I think. Paying for all that extra LCD just to have room to fit my wrists on the machine would seem like a wasteful crime. Well, perhaps. But everything seems way too big on this screen, and there's really no way to make it smaller. If the 14 inch G4 iBook had an option for a 1200x900 screen resolution (even as a build-to-order unit), I think it would be ideal for me. But alas, getting any kind of design work done in 1024x768 gives me some mental cramps, if not wrist cramps. Still, it's a nice machine -- I'm surprised it's not more popular than it is.
Ah, much better. That's right, by virtue of having logged out and moved three feet to the left, I'm now typing on a laptop that actually has room for my wrists. Actually, I kinda like this here 14 inch G4 iBook. I've heard a lot of pundits say that they don't understand why this model exists, and my theory was that is was for those people who wanted to buy an iBook but just couldn't live with a 12 inch screen. In other words, those with poor reading vision. But now I think I've found the real reason people buy this model: your hands don't cramp up every third sentence.
This machine, too, has a flaw that just might be fatal -- at least for me. Because while the larger 14 inch screen means that the base of the laptop is large enough to actually hold my wrists, the screen itself doesn't actually hold anything more than the 12 inch model. They both have the exact same 1024x768 resolution. For me, the larger screen would just be waste, I think. Paying for all that extra LCD just to have room to fit my wrists on the machine would seem like a wasteful crime. Well, perhaps. But everything seems way too big on this screen, and there's really no way to make it smaller. If the 14 inch G4 iBook had an option for a 1200x900 screen resolution (even as a build-to-order unit), I think it would be ideal for me. But alas, getting any kind of design work done in 1024x768 gives me some mental cramps, if not wrist cramps. Still, it's a nice machine -- I'm surprised it's not more popular than it is.
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