well, if you really must have one now... you might want to try macmall. A couple days ago they had 180 in stock.....let me see how many they have right now................146.
<strong>Anyone have any impressions of wireless range? The antennae are on the screen yes?</strong><hr></blockquote>
It seems excellent. I was at the Apple store in Durham today, and I was outside, around the corner and across the way from the store and I had 3 bars. I'd estimate about 75 feet outside the building. I'm a terrible estimator, though. But I thought it was exceptional.
oh, another note. i was at the Mall of America store the other day, and stopped by to check out the 12" PB. the model they had on the floor had a cracked out trackpad. wouldn't track where you wanted it to go, just kept trying to recenter itself.
the solution?
someone from the GB comes over, puts the model to sleep and wakes it back up, and it's fine "for a while" he says.
dunno, that makes me a little nervous when the trackpad is acting up, and putting it to sleep fixes it. sounds like a hard to fix problem.
<strong>oh, another note. i was at the Mall of America store the other day, and stopped by to check out the 12" PB. the model they had on the floor had a cracked out trackpad. wouldn't track where you wanted it to go, just kept trying to recenter itself.
the solution?
someone from the GB comes over, puts the model to sleep and wakes it back up, and it's fine "for a while" he says.
dunno, that makes me a little nervous when the trackpad is acting up, and putting it to sleep fixes it. sounds like a hard to fix problem.
not sure if i'll get one now</strong><hr></blockquote>
A co-worker bought a 12.1" PBook today--his first Mac, and the same bloody thing was happening to his. The cursor/arrow would stay pinned to a corner or in the middle--you try to track it around and it would fall back. It seemed that it happened when there was a lot of static electricity present: you touch the trackpad, get a shock, and then it would go all screwy. I put it to sleep then it would return to normal.
I hope it isn't something more serious: a bad omen for a nervous switcher,
A co-worker bought a 12.1" PBook today--his first Mac, and the same bloody thing was happening to his. The cursor/arrow would stay pinned to a corner or in the middle--you try to track it around and it would fall back. It seemed that it happened when there was a lot of static electricity present: you touch the trackpad, get a shock, and then it would go all screwy. I put it to sleep then it would return to normal.
I hope it isn't something more serious: a bad omen for a nervous switcher,</strong><hr></blockquote>
Come to think of it, the exact same thing happened on my wife's ibook (original 500mhz model). It hasn't happened in quite a while, but sometimes the trackpad would just freak out like that. Hmmm.
My ti did that until they replaced the trackpad. It was like that from the beginning. I haven't had any problems with my mini. Keeping my fingers crossed...
Frankly, I thought the 12er looked cheap in design and materials in comparison to the TiBook.....I'm sure I am in the minority here, but the overall impression lacked whatever it is that draws me to the Ti version. Hopefully the 17 incher will be different......
I got my BTO 12" incher last Wednesday (ordered 2 hours after Macworld).
It's pretty fast (my other mac is a B&W G3 upgraded to a G4 600 with Radeon 7000, 1 gig ram and fast drives, and the PB is noticeably faster). I just have 256 mb in it. Haven't had time to put in the 512 mb stick I bought - it's already fine with just 256 so I'm not rushing. First I've been loading it up with software.
Virtual PC runs nice with XP. But I haven't pushed it yet. Soon I will be running emagic logic on it for playing piano and synths, so I will see how fast it really is without the L3 cache (but then my upgraded B&W has no L3 and it's fine).
Airport Extreme is f***ing awesome!!!! I have the base station in my basement. I walk all over the house, lay in my bed (two floors up) and browse the web at full DSL speed while listening to internet radio at full quality. OK, this is the best!!! From the network, I mounted the drives on my desktop mac and loaded all the software in over Airport!!! Office, photoshop, lots of MB and it did not take any longer than when I had the PB plugged in with ethernet, and I was in my bed!
I haven't tried the DVD burner yet. I did play some DVD movies.
I think the battery life is going to max out at 3.5 or so. 5 - I don't see how. But I have not had enough time to tell yet.
The keyboard is very nice as many have reported. No trackpad problems, but it does click loud.
The screen seems nice, but I do not have a lot of experience with different ones (my last notebook was a Powerbook 165!)
The look and quality of the case, hinge, etc. seems super, super nice to me.
It can get real hot underneath, but it also seems to cool off fast.
one more thing on the 12 inch PB. The sound quality out of the headphone jack seems very good to me. I have some HD 600 Sennheisers (awesome) and the detail is very nice. Maybe these built-in D/A converters are getting better. It sounds almost as good as my Audiophile 24/96 card in my B&W.
I was dicking around with one in a store here in London just the other day, and my mind is made up, MiniTi for me!
That said, this one was exhibiting trackpad oddities: it would track almost where you wanted, then scoot back to the center of the screen. I'm hoping it was just me having dirty fingers, and the fact that shop-floor machines get all manner of gunk from the great unwashed on them...
So, just as soon as I have the financial side worked out, I will be getting myself a nice birthday present. Job one when it gets home is to stick it in Firewire Target Disk Mode and get Carbon Copy Cloner to squirt my existing System across...
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I'll stick with SD. They're not jerking me around. I think they just don't have the SD models in yet.
<strong>Anyone have any impressions of wireless range? The antennae are on the screen yes?</strong><hr></blockquote>
It seems excellent. I was at the Apple store in Durham today, and I was outside, around the corner and across the way from the store and I had 3 bars. I'd estimate about 75 feet outside the building. I'm a terrible estimator, though. But I thought it was exceptional.
the solution?
someone from the GB comes over, puts the model to sleep and wakes it back up, and it's fine "for a while" he says.
dunno, that makes me a little nervous when the trackpad is acting up, and putting it to sleep fixes it. sounds like a hard to fix problem.
not sure if i'll get one now
I hope I don't get an Apple Lemon?
<strong>oh, another note. i was at the Mall of America store the other day, and stopped by to check out the 12" PB. the model they had on the floor had a cracked out trackpad. wouldn't track where you wanted it to go, just kept trying to recenter itself.
the solution?
someone from the GB comes over, puts the model to sleep and wakes it back up, and it's fine "for a while" he says.
dunno, that makes me a little nervous when the trackpad is acting up, and putting it to sleep fixes it. sounds like a hard to fix problem.
not sure if i'll get one now</strong><hr></blockquote>
A co-worker bought a 12.1" PBook today--his first Mac, and the same bloody thing was happening to his. The cursor/arrow would stay pinned to a corner or in the middle--you try to track it around and it would fall back. It seemed that it happened when there was a lot of static electricity present: you touch the trackpad, get a shock, and then it would go all screwy. I put it to sleep then it would return to normal.
I hope it isn't something more serious: a bad omen for a nervous switcher,
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A co-worker bought a 12.1" PBook today--his first Mac, and the same bloody thing was happening to his. The cursor/arrow would stay pinned to a corner or in the middle--you try to track it around and it would fall back. It seemed that it happened when there was a lot of static electricity present: you touch the trackpad, get a shock, and then it would go all screwy. I put it to sleep then it would return to normal.
I hope it isn't something more serious: a bad omen for a nervous switcher,</strong><hr></blockquote>
Come to think of it, the exact same thing happened on my wife's ibook (original 500mhz model). It hasn't happened in quite a while, but sometimes the trackpad would just freak out like that. Hmmm.
not sure what it is, but my TiBook is just fine. go figure.
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It's pretty fast (my other mac is a B&W G3 upgraded to a G4 600 with Radeon 7000, 1 gig ram and fast drives, and the PB is noticeably faster). I just have 256 mb in it. Haven't had time to put in the 512 mb stick I bought - it's already fine with just 256 so I'm not rushing. First I've been loading it up with software.
Virtual PC runs nice with XP. But I haven't pushed it yet. Soon I will be running emagic logic on it for playing piano and synths, so I will see how fast it really is without the L3 cache (but then my upgraded B&W has no L3 and it's fine).
Airport Extreme is f***ing awesome!!!! I have the base station in my basement. I walk all over the house, lay in my bed (two floors up) and browse the web at full DSL speed while listening to internet radio at full quality. OK, this is the best!!! From the network, I mounted the drives on my desktop mac and loaded all the software in over Airport!!! Office, photoshop, lots of MB and it did not take any longer than when I had the PB plugged in with ethernet, and I was in my bed!
I haven't tried the DVD burner yet. I did play some DVD movies.
I think the battery life is going to max out at 3.5 or so. 5 - I don't see how. But I have not had enough time to tell yet.
The keyboard is very nice as many have reported. No trackpad problems, but it does click loud.
The screen seems nice, but I do not have a lot of experience with different ones (my last notebook was a Powerbook 165!)
The look and quality of the case, hinge, etc. seems super, super nice to me.
It can get real hot underneath, but it also seems to cool off fast.
PPP is very flacky on me. I had to turn off every feature to get and maintain a connection.
AirPort? Can't seem to figure out how to connect to my wife's iBook?
just bought one a few days ago. it'll be here in a few weeks.
*sigh*
i love laptops. (everything but the trackpad really impressed me)
That said, this one was exhibiting trackpad oddities: it would track almost where you wanted, then scoot back to the center of the screen. I'm hoping it was just me having dirty fingers, and the fact that shop-floor machines get all manner of gunk from the great unwashed on them...
So, just as soon as I have the financial side worked out, I will be getting myself a nice birthday present. Job one when it gets home is to stick it in Firewire Target Disk Mode and get Carbon Copy Cloner to squirt my existing System across...