I’ve only been laptop-less for just over a month and I’m already gearing up to buy a new one because the new PowerBooks look awesome! I think I might buy one. They’ve upped the specs and dropped the prices a bit - always a good thing. The most pleasing thing about the new models is that they all come with 512MB RAM by default. They used to come with only 256MB, which is just not enough to run OS X efficiently. All the models are still pricey, but with an educational discount of around $150-$300, it looks like I will be able to justify purchasing a 12″ PowerBook. It will be about $200 more than my old laptop, but it will have triple the memory (I’ll upgrade to 768MB), double the hard drive capacity and a DVD writer too.
I’ll wait for some reviews to pop up, just to make sure that there aren’t any problems with heat or battery life. Then, I’ll probably go for it, unless I can find a good reason not to get it. Originally, I was going to wait until the release of Tiger to get a Mac, but I don’t want to wait anymore, since Tiger probably won’t be released until the end of June.
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