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Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Two years of using PowerBook at work -- Comment()
I started using a PowerBook at work over two years ago. I was sceptical of having only a laptop computer, and I wrote here: "Now I'm almost done replacing my G4 tower at work with a portable, an Apple PowerBook. I'm more and more convinced that this is a smart move. [...] However, there is the worry of realiability. If the PowerBook is not as reliable as the G4 tower (which had no problems whatever in almost three years of use), then I have made a mistake."

In retrospect, having a PowerBook was a great decision. I tested the PowerBook before buying, and that helped.

There have been no problems. None whatsoever. I have done all my work on this little machine, and it has performed flawlessly. And the PowerBook is fast enough to last another year, I believe.

A hint for others: having 1 GB of memory and 60 GB of disk makes the PowerBook last longer. I can log in to several accounts simultaneously, and run Safari, Mail, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat, TeXShop, BBEdit, X11, Terminal, Encyclopedia Britannica etc. concurrently.

Get a better browser -- Comment()
The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating): "Microsoft does have one suggestion for those who cannot use the latest patches in Service Pack 2: buy a new personal computer. By the same reasoning, the security problems created by a car's broken door lock could be solved by buying an entirely new automobile. The analogy comes straight from Mr. Schare. "It's like buying a car," he said. "If you want to get the latest safety features, you have to buy the latest model." [...] In this case, the very latest model is not a 2001 Internet Explorer, but a 2004 Firefox.'