January 5, 2006
Why I’d love a 15″ Powerbook
John Gruber from daringfireball upgraded to a new 15″ Powerbook and loves it. I’d very much like to follow in his footsteps…I get to play with Tiger, have a quicker system, do some wicked video editing, play with Reason, use my Mac for live audio band stuff and maybe even some VJing. I still feel somewhat guilty laying out 15 G’s for a piece of hardware, but I also know I’m a user who isn’t just going to use it for email and word processing, I’m going to squeeze everything out of it that I can (like installing Fink and running X11 apps – like OpenOffice).
Or maybe I’ll wait to hear what Steve Jobs has to say in his upcoming keynote address…I’m hoping to hear that Intel Powerbooks will start shipping in mid-January.
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