Well, I finally caved and bought a PowerBook. In fact I’m typing on it right now. On the train. Surrounded by businessmen with clunky looking Compaq and IBM things. Mwhahaha.
First impressions? Well, it looks great, all tiny and silvery, the screen is pretty good and the keyboard is one of the nicest laptop keyboards I’ve ever typed on. It’s got great connectivity, with got yer Bluetooth built in (syncs great with the phone + allows me to use my mobile as a modem when I’m on the move and just have to get some pr0n *shrugs*), firewire, a couple of USB ports (only v1.1 though 
), video out, and a groovy slot for wireless networking - groovy because it’s on top of the battery with the attenna hidden in the body of the laptop. When wireless is turned off it has pretty good battery life - 3-4 hours, or so the battery indicator tells me. Oh, and it also has the envious looks of said business people who keep glancing in my direction.
Hardware? Yes. Software? Os X. Hmm. When I first heard that Apple were going to be basing their next generation of operating system on a Unix variant I was quite excited. The idea of a properly stable platform with true multithreading and pre-emptive multitasking etc etc sounded too good to be true. And alas the majority of the Mac owning people I know said the first couple of revisions were somewhat buggy and most of them were sticking with Os 9. Enter X10.2 and reports seem to be that most of the problems have been ironed out (if they were there in the first place - ‘What do you mean I can’t allocated memory to a program? Oh look, the program has crashed. Os X must be b0rked’). I’ll save my thoughts on Os X for later though.
Oh my, I hear you say? Alex has turned into a Mac fanboy, what a hypocrite! Oh no he hasn’t, Alex says, he’s just trying to convince himself that 1400 quid spent on a laptop he probably didn’t really need was a wise investment.
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