The order for my 15'' Powerbook, placed on the debut date of the upgraded Powerbooks has been shipped this morning from an Apple Distribution Center in Franklin Park, IL.

Psst... that's a mere 20 miles from the Downtown Chicago Apple Store, of which I am located three blocks from. It's grand. It would be sweet if the Powerbook made it today and I can actually write my paper on a system that works. Imagine that. If not, I always have tomorrow and the papers that I have due next week.

Hopefully I will be within the 31 days to receive the discounted Panther release. With the prospective date given, it should be green.

Just a heads up for those of you who ordered and didn't get a status update. They're coming.

Nice!,

I'm still deciding if I should get a 12" or a PC, I love the 12" but I do a lot of work on pcs.

Theres allways

Sounds cool. Be sure to post some pics of it if you can

Chris: I might recommend considering an iBook. I have one and they're pretty speedy machines, provided you boost the memory. You could end up saving yourself a lot of money that way

just saw the new 15" pb at the mac store in pasadena last night. pretty awesome machine. the guy using it was hella annoying though, he was a "typical mac user", well the ones that give apple a bad image.

Thanks,

Good point, I've seen some major bargins on the ibook referbs.

But for what I want (a toy and a DVD player it would be best)

How would it compare to my 700mhz imac G4 384mb Ram (i'd max the ibooks ram)

I don't use photoshop, Dreamweaver would be the only program i'd use really.

I mainly use mine for coding and webbrowsing in class, and if you bump the memory on it, it should actually run faster than the iMac in some cases (because you're not using that many G4-optimized apps)

How do “typical” Mac users behave in your experience that annoys you?

Just asking because most of my friends are PC users- which pretty much leaves me with the “Mac evangelist” role

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Bah, typical poor PC user - drove all the way down to the apple store in his rusted civic just to put his unwashed hands all over the divine apple hardware. Not that I'd ever wash my hands with water that comes out of the tap though; can you believe people drink that stuff? Personally I can't stand anything that isn't a starbucks expreso or imported from france in a blue bottle.

Not that I can really blame the worthless microsoft following troll, they're all the same and just can't see how much better a mac is than a wintendox peecee running micro$oft winblows. Even a 1ghz G4 imac is faster than whatever pc crap you can make - and with an ipod (the best mp3 player ever!) it's better than caviar and vodka. And there's no viruses, and it _NEVER_ crashes, and the internet is built right in. Steve jobs knows how to build the perfect computer and os, he's never screwed up except for letting microsoft steal the GUI from them.

Now where's my E-class? I've got to get out of this place because that guys walmart shirt clashes with my dolcee and gabbana kahkis.
</stereotype>

It's not the typical mac user, it's the pretentious dork, there are millions of them - sounds like he ran into one that owned/used a mac.

lmfao thats funny

You know I will.

I am excited. It was delayed and they postponed the delivery date to Monday, September 29, 2003.

Now... it is more dissapointing, knowing it is so close to me, yet I cannot claim it.

At least it is coming.

yeah i think he meant the type that started off with windows, just got a mac and now all of a sudden windows has no use at all, anything from Microsoft is ****e and needs to be burnt immediately and OS X is the shiznit.

Not the typical mac user at all but a fanboy.

went to the store with friends ( dixons xl in the new bullring ) and i went crazy over the pbooks there ( even tho they had 15ti.) the 17 and 12" pbooks are just lovely. i want one. my friends thought i was weird and laughed at me when i shouted silly things like
"OMFG a z1!!!" ( sony laptop ) then i saw the mac equipment.
"OMFG ipod omfg pbook!!!" then they laughed
the 20g ipod is much thinner than mu 40gb

I was at the Apple store and emphasis already moved from the updated iPods to the updated Powerbooks and still the G5, thus I still haven't run into the revisitoned iPods.

At least, there is no signs denoting the 'special' pods.