October 10, 2003

My 1st Apple

Has Shipped and Panther will be delivered to me on the evening of the 24th and my 512MB ram upgrade arrived from crucial yesterday.

I've spent a LONG time mulling over this purchase, I've been interested in getting an Apple since I first heard about Rhapsody some 6? years ago.

Initially when the G5's were introduced and I saw panther's feature set I became convinced that it was time to make my move but the more I thought about it the more I said to myself if I have a G5 sitting at home all day, doing nothing it is going to KILL ME. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on work knowing that machine was sitting idle at home.

So that made me start thinking about powerbooks, the new 12" while nice has a retarded built-in 256MB ram with only 1 expansion slot, so the maximum ram is only 768 without buying a $700 dollar 1gb ram chip, the 17" is pretty sweet but a touch unruly due to size in my estimation and the new 15" is a perfect middle ground.

So after going over the price variations for each model in my head and ton of visits to the apple store I finally decided on the 15" to be my very first apple computer and if things go well with my "Switch" the dual G5 can eventually be my second apple!

Now I have to find myself a nice messenger style laptop bag.

PowerBook G4 15.2/1.25GHZ/512/80/SD/A
The unit above contains the following options:

Processor 065-4116 1.25GHz PowerPC G4
Memory 065-4541 512MB DDR333 SDRAM
Hard Drive 065-4544 80GB Ultra ATA Drive@5400rpm
Optical Drive 065-4119 Super Drive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
Country Kit 065-4496 Country Kit/Airport Extreme
Keyboard/Mac OS Language 065-4495 BkLit Keyboard/Mac OS