Ordered Powerbook!


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Finally! I have ordered my new Powerbook. Unfortuantly not the 17" I planned but thats ok.

? 256MB DDR333 (256MB built-in)

? 60GB Ultra ATA drive @ 4200rpm

? SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)

? AirPort Extreme Card

? Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English

? 1.33GHz PowerPC G4

? NVIDIA GeForce FX GO 5200 with 64MB DDR Video Memory

? 12.1-inch TFT Display

Thats the specs of it. I plan on a ram upgrade later on.

Any pointers on what to do? Any cool :woot:oftware? :woot:

Wow I am excited!

Also its my first mac!

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That's a nice machine. I myself jumped ship from Windows about 4 months ago, and haven't looked back.

Free software... well iLife is free with your new Mac, and I use iLife everyday.

Also free:

iComic http://www.ruxp.net/iComic.asp

Downloads comics to your desktop.

Poisoned http://www.gottsilla.net/

FastTrack, Gnutella, and Gift P2P client

VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Media player for most media formats

PithHelmet http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php

Safari plugin - removes page banner ads and adds functionality to Safari

If you don't mind cheap shareware, check out:

Konfabulator http://www.konfabulator.com/

Put cool widgets on your desktop.

Speed Download http://www.yazsoft.com/

Equivalent to GetRight

Synergy http://synergy.wincent.com/

Adds iTunes controls to your menubar and pops up a transparent window with album art, song info.

iBlog http://www.lifli.com/Products/iBlog/main.htm

Good blogging app, free with .Mac and works with .Mac/iDisk as well.

GraphicConverter http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/graphcon.htm

Does what the name says. Great simple image editor, when you don't want to load Photoshop.

And for full-blown commercial software:

Toast 6 http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/index.jhtml

Awesome software to burn and mount disk images. Works better at mounting images than built-in Mac functionality.

Hope this helps! Hope you have lots of fun with your new Powerbook!

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That's a nice machine. I myself jumped ship from Windows about 4 months ago, and haven't looked back.

Free software... well iLife is free with your new Mac, and I use iLife everyday.

Also free:

iComic http://www.ruxp.net/iComic.asp

Downloads comics to your desktop.

Poisoned http://www.gottsilla.net/

FastTrack, Gnutella, and Gift P2P client

VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Media player for most media formats

PithHelmet http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php

Safari plugin - removes page banner ads and adds functionality to Safari

If you don't mind cheap shareware, check out:

Konfabulator http://www.konfabulator.com/

Put cool widgets on your desktop.

Speed Download http://www.yazsoft.com/

Equivalent to GetRight

Synergy http://synergy.wincent.com/

Adds iTunes controls to your menubar and pops up a transparent window with album art, song info.

iBlog http://www.lifli.com/Products/iBlog/main.htm

Good blogging app, free with .Mac and works with .Mac/iDisk as well.

GraphicConverter http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/graphcon.htm

Does what the name says. Great simple image editor, when you don't want to load Photoshop.

And for full-blown commercial software:

Toast 6 http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/index.jhtml

Awesome software to burn and mount disk images. Works better at mounting images than built-in Mac functionality.

Hope this helps! Hope you have lots of fun with your new Powerbook!

Wow thanks for all that stuff, that Poison will be good since im canadian and music downlaoding is legal :D

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i maybe waiting to goto uni for my first mac :p unless its still weird to have a laptop in the uk... then i'll buy another tablet pc :(

Do u mean to have a laptop in uni?

It will depend on what u use it for. Don't buy it if you just wanna show it off to ur uni friends...

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I got the same thing, except I upgraded the Harddrive on mine to the 80gig @5400rpm

:woot:

off topic: ur sig says " OSX-Jaguar-v10.3.3". the last time i checked 10.3.3 was panther ;)

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