iHappy

Posted on August 10, 2004
Filed Under Computing |

So after one day of using a new G4 iBook I’m really kicking my self for not getting one when I bought my first laptop 2 years ago. It just works. Everything is where you think it would be. Looong battery life will make the bus trips to MAC bareable. Software suspend works, period. My only problem is a dead pixel right in the middle of the screen. I have installed Gentoo Portage, the supported software is much less than expected. Hopefully that will improve in the coming months.

Thank you to Apple for making a great piece of software to go with great piece of hardware, and to my supervisor for letting me use it.

Comments

7 Responses to “iHappy”

  1. John Kopanas on August 10th, 2004 14:35

    LOL… so you finaly got one or what?

  2. mcs on August 11th, 2004 13:59

    Welcome to the ‘real world.

  3. Ness on August 11th, 2004 16:37

    Lucky dog. A new toy to play with is always exciting times. Even if it is someone else’s toy.

  4. mhp on August 11th, 2004 16:48

    In discussions to get a laptop instead of a desktop for my research work from my supervisor, I improved my odds of getting it by negotiating the iBook instead of the Powerbook. This is because I had the intention of installing Linux on it too, and the 12′ PB uses the unsupported NVIDIA video card. But I’m loving OS X so much now that Linux will likely not get installed.

    The benefit of it being someone else’s toy, it that they paid for it ;)

  5. mhp on August 13th, 2004 1:11

    BOOO. It doesn’t always “Just work”….. 4 days old and I had my first system hang that required a hard reboot… it was coming back from sleep and hung displaying a picture from the screensaver. This better not be a typical occurance. But i can’t really complain too much, as my Compaq laptop still does not have software suspend working correctly.

  6. John Kopanas on August 13th, 2004 19:03

    My computer has hung maybe 8 times in 2 years. Don’t worry. Many times your computer will run for over 30 days with no problem what so ever!

    Why move to linux? What would be the benefit?

  7. mhp on August 15th, 2004 0:10

    There are a couple of apps that won’t run on OS X yet, but I can always run them remotely. I cannot run RTAI (real-time Linux kernel), which I would be interested in benchmarking with PPC architecture.

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