I am seriously thinking about exchanging my second consecutive defective brand-new PowerBook for a refurbished January PowerBook, if I can. Both are 15 inches, which is what I want; both have SuperDrives and backlit keyboards; they have the same processor speed (1.67 GHz); and although the RAM is 512 MB instead of 1 GB, I can always upgrade that. The only real loss would be 20 GB of hard drive space… but that’d be worth it, to get a machine that isn’t defective. Plus, it costs significantly less!
So anyway, I’m wondering… is it a good machine? Does it have any known issues? Its display doesn’t have the weird horizontal lines, does it? Does the 1280 x 854 resolution (as opposed to my current machine’s 1440 x 960) feel restricting?
Umm, other than burning up a hard drive video editing in about 4 months (and it was more of a soft failure than a hard failure, I can tell you all about that bit if you like… you should have my number, yes?), nope no problems, it is humming along on my desk quite nicely at the moment with more gadgetry than I care to think about hanging off of it.
November 28th, 2005 at 5:04:16 pm
Umm, other than burning up a hard drive video editing in about 4 months (and it was more of a soft failure than a hard failure, I can tell you all about that bit if you like… you should have my number, yes?), nope no problems, it is humming along on my desk quite nicely at the moment with more gadgetry than I care to think about hanging off of it.
November 28th, 2005 at 5:31:59 pm
Here is a link to Macworld review of the January revision.
November 28th, 2005 at 9:51:45 pm
and then there is this http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/keeping-score