Today my new laptop arrived in the mail. I say new, however the laptop is an older iBook. It is a g3 900mhz iBook. I got it from ebay. It came ready to go right out of the box. Airport card installed. It has panther installed which should be fine for now. I know that leopard won’t do me much good, so I might install tiger at some point but I am not completely sure. Right now I am just learning os X. I like the form factor of the 12 inch iBook, It is small without being too small. It doesn’t weigh too much, just about 4 lbs. The keyboard is comparable to the other laptops that I have had. The trackpad is a little wompy and it works better with a external mouse. I imagine that I will just keep my wireless notebook mouse in the bag with the laptop. I have noticed that the left side palm rest is getting a little hot under my hand as I type, but not more so that my hp notebook. The battery seems to be holding a charge. All in all I am happy with the laptop so far. Sure I have only had it for a couple of hours, but I think it will be a good portable soulution for doing web, email, and such on the go. And I only spent around 300 bucks. I know, I know. I could have bought one of those portables such as the Eee Pc or the like, But I wanted a fuller featured operating system. I was on the fence between mac or pc, and went with mac. I will post more in the coming days as I work this thing out and learn more and use it more.
Later
Chuck
