It's official, and broadcasting via airport too!

matsu · February 13, 2003 4:05PM

My miniBook shipped yesterday. Not "supposed to ship tommorow," or, "our sales rep will say they should be here in two weeks" (for the third 'two weeks' in a row). Nope, "They shipped, we have confirmation, 5 business days."

And thank g-d too, I think I was driving them nuts -- called every week. I was actually pretty cose to cancelling my order, but with Spring break next week, I'll only have limited work to contend with and no classes, so I'll have time to play with the thing. WEEHEE.

I could still cancel (no money down, used dept purchasing, they're getting some iMacs too) but for the (edu) price I'll get to finally try out a modern OSX mac.

It looks like I'll have one of the first dozen or so miniBooks in Toronto.

Get ready for the first real PB review!

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murbot · February 13, 2003 4:22PM

[quote]Get ready for the first real PB review!<hr></blockquote>

Now that is scary.

I've been watching my iMac travel up here from CA, on the FedEx website. It hit Calgary earlier today, so I'll have it tomorrow.

Waiting is a bitch, ain't it?

thegelding · February 13, 2003 4:34PM

macmall, baby....ordered iMac combo for switcher friend on sunday, used two day fed ex and it was here at noon on tuesday...set it up for her last night....showed them how to set the desktop and play iTunes and how to use the dock....then said, "go play, don't worry, you can't break it...you learn by using" hopefully not famous last words....g

matsu · February 13, 2003 4:35PM

Tell me about it. I know how many PB12's are actually coming in to Toronto in total, probably less than a dozen going out to all the T.O. area resellers combined. I was second in line with our dealer, but anyone who ordered aftee the first week may be waiting as long as mid-March!

stunned · February 13, 2003 9:38PM

Congrats Matsu.

Can u help confirm some rumours about the not so sensitive touchpad??

matsu · February 13, 2003 10:04PM

When it arrives, right now it's somewhere betweeen Cupertino and Toronto.

splinemodel · February 14, 2003 4:52AM

[quote]Originally posted by Matsu:

 but with Spring break next week<hr></blockquote>

Dude. . . It's not even Spring yet. In Canada it's not even close to Spring. What the hell is wrong with you dumb Canadians, getting everything all mixed up.

. . . Are you on trimesters? That might make sense.

matsu · February 14, 2003 5:56AM

[quote]Originally posted by Splinemodel:



Are you on trimesters? That might make sense.<hr></blockquote>

It gets too warm for us in March, we like to hold it early. Hahaha.

Officially, we call it "Reading week," but Americanisms forever leech into our dialect, like 'semester,' we really are on 'trimesters.' Three 4 month blocks (well 3 or 3 and half month blocks) including the summer: Sept-Dec, Jan-mid-April, May-August 1st. I've planned most of my academic years around a trimester, taking something in the summer, and something less during the fall and winter. Work and grad classes are a little different, particularly the perpetually extended deadlines which offer a lot more flexibility. August is always off unless you teach ESL for extra cash, which for the first time I mightn't have to do this year.

But yes, canucks are a bit weird. I think it has to do with the steady diet of beer and beaver tails.

alcimedes · February 14, 2003 9:28AM

yeah, the touchpad on the 12" isn't nearly as sensative as on my TiBook.

it' still usable, just a bit rougher and less precise.

aquatic · February 14, 2003 10:43AM

Really? That sucks. How does it compare to an iBook's touchpad?

eugene · February 14, 2003 11:49AM

[quote]Originally posted by alcimedes:



it' still usable, just a bit rougher and less precise.<hr></blockquote>

Maybe she likes it rough?!

elric · February 14, 2003 12:38PM

I have had the 12" powerbook for like a day and a half now and the touch pad is something new for me. I have found that the lighter you touch it the more responsive it is. If I press hard it gets kind jerky and slow but if I just slightly touch it it works much better.

This is my first powerbook and I'm in love

Actually thinking of selling my 17" iMac and getting another powerbook (This one is supposed to be my wife's)

matsu · February 18, 2003 6:08PM

OK, sorry to bring this back up, but tommorow *might* be the day, they said tommorow but possibly early Thursday (depends on the delivery folk I guess)

I was very tempted to call them today, but seeing as I've driven them silly for the past month and that they told me WEDNESDAY, Thursday at the latest, I'd seem like a total A-hole -- usually not a hang-up for me, but I don't want to seem desperate <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> -- if I just called them up to ask again. So I'll call them at lunch tommorrow. Hoping that I have better delivery service than poor Murbot has had to suffer, and by tommorow night I might be playing with my 12". <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />

If not, Thursday morn, but the play by play will be a bit harder to give, must play hookie from work (call-forwarding = easy) drop into uni, hope dept has books, get down to the auto show, snap a few picks, get home unpack book, play, post initial thoughts, pics, get needed wares. It's not like I have research projects or papers that need doing. HAhaha...

Steve, WHERE, OH WHERE, is my book?

flounder · February 19, 2003 3:00PM

what's the good word?

matsu · February 19, 2003 3:19PM

F-ing thing's not here yet!

We've now gone from 'yes, wednesday they'll be here thursday at the latest,' to "I dunno, they've shipped... we'll call you"

ARRRGH!!!!

Someone must pay. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />

murbot · February 19, 2003 3:22PM

Hey man, I'd have much rather waited a few days to get a BRAND NEW computer...

Christ, I got a used one with no software. heh heh

matsu · February 19, 2003 3:45PM

I just got the call, it's here, the only question is can I get down to my dept's office before they close up (at 6)

murbot · February 19, 2003 3:46PM

Um, you're killing valuable time telling us this... why exactly?

Run.

overhope · February 19, 2003 4:57PM

The suspense is killing me... (he says, typing on his 12" Powerbook in quite a smug fashion).

I have to say, I'm coming to terms with the trackpad. Like Elric said, the gentle touch works best, but I'm far too used to using a trackpad on my Windoze machine and have yet to fully recalibrate my fingers to suit the Powerbook. This will come in time, I am sure.

I still can't believe how quiet my little baby is, even when the fan ramps itself up (yes, doing 3D renders on one of these is possibly a bit silly, but it didn't crash and it looked good, so yah!), and the build quality is unparalleled. I will be embarassing several Windoze-freaks with it tomorrow.

matsu · February 19, 2003 11:06PM

I can tell you that a gentle touch, with the sensitivity turned to maxx seems to zip the pointer around the screen with aplomb. Yeah, I'm a geek, I booted it down to the office to pick up the baby. Almost killed a few pedestrians along the way. I though I was gonna have top wait, but the airport card arrived too so I snagged it and set her up.

The milf at the dept office really like my book, we chatted for a bit, something about having twelve inches of power in your lap does it for 'em. Anyway, she's a mac user and had some serious lust for my 12, so naturally I BS'd her a bit and told her, "Yeah, I'm a long time mac user, I had a gum drop before this." She's all, "Me too! I love it." I bet you do, Matsu thinks to himself. Then my buddy shows up (who's buying the Newton) We went to my car, grabbed the newt and headed to a pub. That was good, the cash paid for the airport and a stack of blank CD's. We actually had some work to do so grabbed a booth. A pitcher of beer and some dusted riblets later and it's almost midnight. He was dying to check out my book, so while we worked I quickly ran through the start up, not including online stuff, I installed the airport card, and charged her up, making surre not to lose any bits by putting everything in a plastic shopping bag.

The fit and finish are impeccable, and the unit didn't even get warm while charging, playing a couple of CD's and checking out classic.

It's too early for first impressions, OSX is so new to me. I really don't knwo how to do anything in OSX and will take a little time to get used to it. I gotta get some wares. The documentation is WAY TOO THIN. It came with 4 discs: a blank CDR, quickbooks, a hardware recovery CD, and one OSX 10.2.3 plus other stuff disc. Nothing to install, I think it's all on the HDD already.

The screen and keyboard are BEA-U-TI-FUL! Look and feel excellent, a quick run through of the solid colors reveals what seems to be a flawless panel, no dead pixels (thank you powers that be)

So, get ready for a real review the second I can get my apps ready. My bro has the P4 working Kazaa right now.

Murbot, PM me please, I got some pics for you and a few questions.

cubedude · February 19, 2003 11:14PM

Matsu, how's the backlight on the keyboard?

It's official, and broadcasting via airport too!

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