Monday, February 28, 2005
Visions of 1024x768 dancing in my head
You know, I'm about eighty percent leaning toward buying a 12 inch iBook after all.
I've been using my aging G4 Titanium PowerBook at a reduced 1024x768 resolution for the past month in an attempt to force myself to adjust to having less screen real estate, and I think it's finally sinking in. It's taken a bit of an adjustment to make things work with forty percent less real estate, but I think I've finally figured out how to do just that. In fact, with my 15 inch screen now relegated to a mere 1024x768 pixels, things area actually too big! I find myself sitting back from the screen because 1024x768 pixels spread across 15 inches is just way too large. So let's throw out any idea of a 14 inch iBook; that's essentially what I'm using right now in terms of physical screen size, and it's a waste. And while I'm not going to like what a 12 inch iBook is going to do to my wrists in terms of cutting them up on the machine's ninety-degree-angle front edge, I'm not exactly thrilled about what my 15 inch iBook has been doing to my wrists for the past year, either -- it's just been doing the damage a little further of my arms, thanks to its larger size.
Furthermore, I think I could actually enjoy having something that takes up abour forty percent less of my lap space. I mean, the minute you divorce yourself from a PowerBook's 1280x854 resolution, the whole thing just seems over-large. And at this point, I think I could really get used to something that runs twice as fast. It's not that this machine is getting any slower, it's that my usage of it is getting faster, if that makes any sense. If I'm deep into Dreamweaver, then the several seconds that it takes to get any other app to come to the front of the screen seem to be going by more slowly with each day...especially when there's a reporter or a customer on the phone. And come to think of it, with the whole thing about recording iPod Garage Radio, I have in fact been avoiding doing the show in GarageBand because I know how it's going to run on this 667 Mhz rig, and I'm not going to like it.
This PowerBook has done me really well. And one of those new PowerBooks would be fantastic. But at this point in the game, the iBook is the way to go for now -- at least for me. Now, all that's left to do is to figure out when to do it. No huge hurry. Perhaps I'll be lucky enough to wait until after the next iBook revision. Not that there's anything distasteful about the current crop, but hey, maybe I'll get to pick up another 0.167 Mhz in the process. You never know.
Your roadmap may vary.
You know, I'm about eighty percent leaning toward buying a 12 inch iBook after all.
I've been using my aging G4 Titanium PowerBook at a reduced 1024x768 resolution for the past month in an attempt to force myself to adjust to having less screen real estate, and I think it's finally sinking in. It's taken a bit of an adjustment to make things work with forty percent less real estate, but I think I've finally figured out how to do just that. In fact, with my 15 inch screen now relegated to a mere 1024x768 pixels, things area actually too big! I find myself sitting back from the screen because 1024x768 pixels spread across 15 inches is just way too large. So let's throw out any idea of a 14 inch iBook; that's essentially what I'm using right now in terms of physical screen size, and it's a waste. And while I'm not going to like what a 12 inch iBook is going to do to my wrists in terms of cutting them up on the machine's ninety-degree-angle front edge, I'm not exactly thrilled about what my 15 inch iBook has been doing to my wrists for the past year, either -- it's just been doing the damage a little further of my arms, thanks to its larger size.
Furthermore, I think I could actually enjoy having something that takes up abour forty percent less of my lap space. I mean, the minute you divorce yourself from a PowerBook's 1280x854 resolution, the whole thing just seems over-large. And at this point, I think I could really get used to something that runs twice as fast. It's not that this machine is getting any slower, it's that my usage of it is getting faster, if that makes any sense. If I'm deep into Dreamweaver, then the several seconds that it takes to get any other app to come to the front of the screen seem to be going by more slowly with each day...especially when there's a reporter or a customer on the phone. And come to think of it, with the whole thing about recording iPod Garage Radio, I have in fact been avoiding doing the show in GarageBand because I know how it's going to run on this 667 Mhz rig, and I'm not going to like it.
This PowerBook has done me really well. And one of those new PowerBooks would be fantastic. But at this point in the game, the iBook is the way to go for now -- at least for me. Now, all that's left to do is to figure out when to do it. No huge hurry. Perhaps I'll be lucky enough to wait until after the next iBook revision. Not that there's anything distasteful about the current crop, but hey, maybe I'll get to pick up another 0.167 Mhz in the process. You never know.
Your roadmap may vary.
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