I have had my new TiBook for almost two weeks and I love it. I am really glad I did not wait for a new aluminum model, who knows when that will ship. I have already had some reasons to boot into OS 9, so I am glad I did not get the 12" model.
This is the 4th revision of the Titanium. That was another reason I did not wait for the 15" aluminum model. The 15" AlBook will be a rev. 1 model again :mad: .
The differences between my original TiBook 500 and this 1 Ghz model are staggering, and I am not talking about the speed gains or the better screen resolution - although those make a big difference.
I wish i could photograph the differences in the quality of the new screen. I put the two TiBooks side by side and the photo didn't come out so well, so I will just have to describe it.
This new TiBook has a much improved viewing angle. I did not really notice the problems until I started using my new TiBook to see the differences. The new screen is so much brighter and also a lot crisper. The old TiBook seems dull and gray compaired to the new one. And the added screen resolution is really nice.
I have heard that the fan in the 1 Ghz TiBook was loud, I have read many posts on boards about this very subject. Either people whine a lot or I have a very quiet TiBook. This new 'Book is nowhere near as loud as my first TiBook. Not even close. And when the fan comes on you actually feel air flowing out of the side air vents, something that didn't happen on the original TiBook.
I have also heard the 1 Ghz TiBook gets hot. People stop your bitching please! Do you need some cheese with your whine? This new model does not get anywhere near as hot! On the original TiBook the entire bottom case got HOT. Not anymore. There is a rectangular plate on the bottom of the new TiBook that gets warm. But it does not get close to the tempature that the old TiBook got. I am very impressed.
Other then the plate on the bottom of the case, it doesn't look like much has changed in case design. One small keyboard change, which happened in the rev. 2 TiBook, but worth mentioning nontheless is the replacement of the Enter key on the right of the spacebar with a second Command key (as with the Pro Keyboard). I no longer have to remap the keyboard now!
The mechanism that loads CD's has changed and I am glad of that considering the amount of issues owners of the original TiBook models had with the optical drive.
Talking about the optical drive, it sure is nice to burn CD-R's w/o plugging in an external burner! I cannot tell you how nice this is! I do not understand why in this day and age the PowerBook (all models) can only burn at 8x for CD-R. I am sure this has something to do with the fact that it is also a DVD-R as well. 8x is slow when I have been used to my 12x Sony Spressa and my 48x LITE ON that is in my PC. But it is not a complaint at all, being able to burn a CD in my TiBook is so convienent.
The speed difference between my old 500 Mhz and my new 1 Ghz TiBook is amazing. This was expected of course. But the real difference is the ATI 9000! I now have Quartz Extreme (QE) where as my old TiBook did not support QE at all.
In its 4th incarnation the Titanium PowerBook G4 is a mature beast. I am very glad I bought it and did not wait.
Something else I am sure that will be addressed with the new 15" PB, but would have been nice to see after 4 revisions: a second FireWire port. It looks like there is room. That is the only thing I wish this TiBook had. I do not really care about AirPort Extreme, FireWire 800. or built in Blue Tooth.
I must say I have gone through a very sad part in my life. I have been without internet access for almost a week :sad: :-P
I have been working a lot lately as well. But I am back, and you are just going to have to live with that.
Be sure to take a step outside tonight (I know that is asking a lot, but please, just this once) and take a look at Mars. It beautiful and you will not get such a nice look at it with such a cheap telescope ever again. What a great sight! It will be the closest on the 26th so you have some more time :-D
Why are the Saints helping pad the stats of not only the offensive but the defensive players of the Eagles? I mean the Saints could not tackle any better if their opponents wore Velcro(tm) jerseys! The Eagles even lost a lot of top players during the off season. Did that matter? Nope.
My cousin sent this to me - very funny!
Resume of George W. Bush The White House, USA
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the Treasury.
I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history.
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.
I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips by any president in US history.
In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
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I am happy to say that my PC did not and has not gotten the sobig.f worm! I thought it would, as I had gotten a number of the emails on my PC. But Sophos did its job. I ran the sophos.f disinfectant utility just to make sure and my HD is clean.
This worrying about viruses is for the birds. Why do morons sit at home and concoct such nasty applications? It takes the fun out of using a PC. Maybe thats why I am just so down about my PC lately. Anyone want to buy my Alienware rig?
Its always a good thing to read Sladhdot, and it had been a while since i looked at the site actually.
Look what I found. Even better news is the
message board thread has tons of satisfied customers.
For those who do not yet know what I am blabbering about:
This guy has hacked the firmware of the DVD-R(W) drive (SuperDrive) of the PowerBook. The PB SuperDrive burns a CD-R at 8x which is pretty slow to me. I have a Sony Spressa that burns at 12x and I am pretty used to that. My PC can burn at 48x and I can get reliable burns at anything under 40x. So 8x is really slow for me. The SuperDrive burns a DVD-R at 1x. The SuperDrive cannot burn a DVD-RW. This hack firmware allows 16x CD-R burns, 2x DVD-R burns and enables DVD-RW burns. Wow. There is even a "downgrade" available.
I don't know if I am going to try this. The 16x CD-R burn speed is what I am really interested as I do not burn to DVD quite as much as I burn to CD-R. Why would Apple cripple these drives? The general consensus is the added heat and power consumption. Well don't burn while the laptop is on a blanket. I am really tempted, I might flash my burner for that 16x CD-R speed.
With so many people reporting success I can only guess why Apple would cripple the hardware. It is not the first time Apple has crippled hardware, that is for sure. The 17" PowerBook has the same model drive but it reports a 16x CD-R speed and has a different firmware version as the 12" and 15" PowerBook. Hmmmm....
Read on for an insane amount of specs on a flashed SuperDrive.
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How would you like to wake up and go out to your car to find a thumbtack holding an envelope in the drivers side door of you car? Well Photo Mikey did, his SAAB had a just that. How do you put a thumbtack through the side of a car door??
The letter was cute. The first page had a little heart and a smiley face. The letter itself was very, very poorly typed (as in with a typewriter, or so it looked) Now for me to say something has grammatical errors means its bad. When I start finding grammatical problems, it is bad. I am talking not high school worthy writing folks. The letter even threatened to tow the car, which they cannot do (well I am sure they could and Mikey is waiting for them to do just that).
The reason for this thumbtack through the door was because someone was pissed that Mikey was parking his car on the street. Of course everyone parks on that side of the street. Mike took the complaint to the police, and they said they had been called about this same person before.
WACKY, CRAZY. MORONS!
No more SPAM phone calls, or as other people call it, telemarketing. I got a cell phone a few months ago and I have since disconnected my land line. At first I was not happy about loosing my ASDL, but I can say I am very happy with Cable. My node must not be saturated because I get insane speeds I only dreamed about with ASDL. On top of that it costs me half what ASDL did.
So lets do some math. My Verizon bill used to about $100 for local calls, long distance and ASDL. I then had to pay Dacor for the internet access $24.95 a month. So about $125 a month for phone and internet. What I thought was ridiculous is that just the line and local calling was $40 out of the bill!
My Verizon Wireless bill is on average (over the past 3 months) $45 and my Cable Internet + Cable TV is $68.
I shaved about $10 a month off my budget but I added Digital Cable. Not bad. Getting rid of the SPAM phone calls is worth more then the savings or having cable TV though.
Having a cell phone is so wonderful. For years I swore up and down that I would not get one, but now my cell phone is like my microwave, I cannot carry on day to day tasks without it.
I just bought Silent Hill 3 for PS2. I have not bought a video game in what seems ages, but has only been a few months.
When I go to check out the woman behind the counter said "That is the greatest game." Yea, a woman says this! Why can't I ever meet a woman that likes video games? Geez.
Needless to say I have not had time to play it much. I played it for maybe 5 minutes and it looks as good if not better then the last one. I will keep you posted.
I am not refering to dinner this time.
When I get home from work I plug in my TiBook if I took it that day, my iPod, my Palm m505 and my cell phone. And I wonder why my electricity bill is high, lol.
I wish the battery in the cell phone lasted as long as the battery in my Palm m505. I looked into the extended life battery but it adds too much to the thickness, that and its $50. I just need to remember to plug it in every nite. Something I must admit is harder to remember then you would think.
My iPod can go a couple days without a recharge. Using FireWire to recharge that is such an ingeneous idea too.
I only need to recharge my Palm m505 once a week at most. I usually sync it every day tho.
You know what else I just realized - I have 4 ways to tell time, my watch, iPod, cell phone, and Palm m505 - all usually on my at all times. If that is not pathetic I don't know what is :-D.
I cleared out my closet this weekend. More then half (that I no longer wear) are out of my apartment. The Salvation Army now has more shirts to sell :-D
Haa Haa Haa Haa, Chhh Chhh Chhh Chhh.
I saw this movie is a kid and have not seen it since. Last night it was on Cinimax so I had to watch it - Friday the 13th is such a horror classic. They don't make horror movies as gory as Friday the 13th. Geez it is bloody. No wonder kids had nightmares from watching Jason and Freddy reap terror. Maybe i'll go see Freddy vs. Jason, I hear it's not that bad.
After months of talking and designing the site I have a new client (I am not designing the site, just coding it, which I have no complaints about one bit). COMSTOR is my 4th client with 
