What can you accomplish on your Powerbook?

o-mac

Is there any story of anyone who has written and put together or self published their book on a Powerbook?



Or how about a story of people who have written films on their Powerbooks?



Or how about anyone who has built their websites on the Powerbook?



I just know that when I get one I'll be creating like a madman.....

squash

You're kidding right? I mean anything that can be done on a desktop can be done on a powerbook...so yeah all of the above have happened!!!

ericj551

I know someone who found the Japanese sub I-52 on a powerbook (or at least did a significant amount of the analysis to find it), by a pool in Florida. Does that count?



edit: it was an old powerbook, too.



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luca

Recently, there was a PowerBook 3400 on eBay that used to be used by some guy associated with the production of Star Trek Voyager. I have no idea how he was related to Voyager, other than that he was somehow important... anyway, it ended up going for a few hundred more than most 3400s go for.

cosmonut

My Powerbook was a big help in college, with all the group projects we had to do. Instead of all of us cramming into someone's dorm room, or having to be really quiet in the computer lab, we would just take the laptop into a meeting room in the library and do our powerpoints, papers, etc.



It was actually pretty nice, too, when we got the meeting rooms with the TVs, because I'd hook up the video out to the screen so all the group members could see what I was doing, typing, etc.



Then, instead of having to rely on the crappy machine that the department had on the movable projector cart, I'd just hook up my laptop instead, and we never had any problems.



Outside of that, I've designed entire web sites on my Powerbook, edited daily videos for a youth camp I'm staff at, and accomplished other cool stuff.



Next Mac I get, though, will most likely be a desktop. You get more for the money, and I don't really need the portability now that I'm out of school.

shawnpatrickjoyce

Since September, I've just written college term papers on my PowerBook G4. What's great about the 15.2 inch widescreen is that you can easily fit two Microsoft Word documents on the screen. Amazing computer for productivity I guess. Sometimes I would halve the size of documents to fit four on the screen. That's great for writing from many sources. You can do that on a PowerBook G4. Of course you could take it anywhere you want, too. So my PowerBook helped me to get a 3.9 last semester and will help to get a 4.0 this semester.



Next.



What else have I accomplished? Together with my Canon PowerShot s200 digital camera, I was able to relive memories only moments after having them, and then again and again without the traditional delay of film processing. Using iPhoto, I organized recent photos from a ski trip to Stowe, Vermont, ordered 5x7's, and emailed photos to friends. They really liked the one of a faceplant in the snow.



It's all about using technology to compliment your life rather than become it.

ghost_user_name

Sex.



And not the loser nerd type.

stoo

No-one has mentioned that you can haxor aliens intent on destroying Earth with a PowerBook, as seen in Independence Day.



My MiniTiBook is currently being assembled: the creative madman awaits!

cosmonut

[quote]Originally posted by Stoo:

<strong>No-one has mentioned that you can haxor aliens intent on destroying Earth with a PowerBook, as seen in Independence Day. </strong><hr></blockquote>



I thought that was just standard practice with a Powerbook. What, is that unusual?



It's a fun routine, though: Once a week is the abduction, poking, prodding, anal probe, and then hacking the ship with my Powerbook!

matt ft

Isn't 24 (the TV program) created entirly on Powerbooks?